In the 1930′s and 1940′s, the workers of the Works Progress Administration (now called the Works Projects Administration) set out to record burial information for cemeteries across the state. Below are the records for Onslow County. To view more from across the state, click here.
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I, Right WHITE age 51 years old; and was Born in january 1846, and used to belonged to Ned WHITE whom died in March in 1866 & Therefore was a slave and oftern hearing that there had been a Provision made to give all of the old slave darkies a Pension when in the sent for and his name to be placed on the books of record to meet the benefit of said law or ? is the ? be may be. — yours respectfully,
Right WHITE
P.o. Tar Landing
Onslow Co, NC
Source: Correspondence and Case Files of the Bureau of Pensions Pertaining to the Ex-Slave Pension Movement, 1892-1922. Microfilm M2110, 1 roll. Records of the Veterans Administration, Record Group 15. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. — Contributed by Taneya Koonce 5 Feb 2012.
This cemetery was surveyed in 1938 as part of the Works Project Administration Historical Records Survey. The information here may not be current but is provided as a resource.
This cemetery is located approximately 3 miles from Catherine Lake, on a dirt road on the way to the nine mile section.
Burials
The original transcription is available online.
This cemetery was surveyed in 1938 as part of the Works Project Administration Historical Records Survey. The information here may not be current but is provided as a resource.
The WPA indicates this cemetery is located in Belgrade, NC on the dirt road leading to Swansboro, NC.
Burials:
The original transcription is available online.
Thanks to a multi-year effort of several collaborators and the permission of the United States Marine Corps, a new website is available for reviewing primary documentation for the many families displaced by the building of Camp Lejune.
Titled MarineBase Homes – the site is a large virtual gallery of documents & photos of records related to the 1941 purchases. This is an incredible resource everyone! I just can’t say it strongly enough!
The documents are organized by 15 geographical areas. The areas and their land owners were published in the 1983 publication by the Onslow County Genealogical Society, The Heritage of Onslow County. I have started to place the maps and owner lists online and in the next few weeks will link each one to their documentation as I’m able to. So… check back for updates!
The Former Landowners of Camp Lejune are to be congratulated for this massive undertaking.
Many thanks to Patty Lynn for submitting this one page excerpt from the 1781 tax assessment documents for Onslow County. She obtained this during a recent research trip to the NC State Archives. This page is only ONE page of the larger file.
Many thanks to Patty Lynn for submitting this one page excerpt from the 1781 tax assessment documents for Onslow County. She obtained this during a recent research trip to the NC State Archives. This page is only ONE page of the larger file.
While I’m not the best at reading it, some of the surnames here included are: Brown, Duval, Gideon, Hidleburg, Jenkins, Johnston, Jones, Landing, Miller, Pollock, Prescott, Rhodes, Roach, Sanford, Simpson, Stout, Thompson, and Whitehurst. Patty’s ancestor listed here is Content Stout in case there are others researching the same line.
A new link has been added to the Links of Interest section in the sidebar – to Swansboro, North Carolina – History. I think the title is fairly self-explanatory 🙂
Sponsored by Tidewater Gallery in downtown Swansboro, the site provides extensive historical information on the people and places of Swansboro. For example, the latest posting provides information about David Ward SANDERS and family with pictures of their homes, lineage information, family documents, and census & burial information.
An extensive Table of Contents is provided on the site sidebar – you’ll definitely want to use this to navigate around the blog. Since it is a blog, you can keep up with it by either checking the site periodically or subscribing to the RSS feed using your preferred feed reader.
Contributor Richard Phillips continues to create resources for military information in Onslow County. His most recent work is the site African American Soldiers & Sailors.
The purpose of the site is to share information about African Americans who joined the Army & Navy during the Civil War. Richard has several sections to the site:
This link has been added to both the African-American page and the Military page on the site. As a blog-powered site you have the ability to get the new posts sent directly to your feed reader via the RSS feed, or you can regularly visit. Spend some time exploring it!