McNAIR CEMETERY
Surveyed by Woodford Sherrill and Jack Ingram
From intersection of Richmond County SR1465 & SR1471 (Patterson Road), drive E on SR1471 about .3 mi. (i.e. toward Drowning Creek) to an old logging road on right. This leads 100 yds S through woods to end at McNair Cemetery. (1 mile northwest of Naked Creek) Ray Rimmer
The additional listings and remarks shown in RED are from the Historical Records Survey of North Carolina, 1937-1938 by Mrs. Myrtle Porter Hamer.
Gaddy Lena Florence 2/9/12 1/9/1938 w/o R.E. Gaddy McNair Angus M. 12/27/1880 1/16/1899 McNair Colon 1/16/1881 8/26/1942 McNair Daniel Luther 12/27/1898 8/30/1934 McNair D.M. 1848 1929 A Mason McNair Duncan 10/31/1883 6/24/1936 McNair Ethel Louise 7/15/17 6/15/1918 McNair John Archibald 9/8/1837 8/18/1913 Age 78 years; s/o John & Nancy McAulay McNair McNair Martha E. Cox 7/29/1842 6/10/23 d/o Clem & Katie Cox w/o William M. McNair McNair Neill F. 4/11/1878 6/22/1927 s/o Wm. M. & Martha E. Cox McNair McNair Sarah M. Patterson 1858 1936 w/o D. M. McNair McNair Vada 3/21/05 12/18/33 did not marry d/o Neil & Margaret Jones McNair "Vada and her oldest sister Mary were especially close. Vada was another right arm for Maggie. In the 1922 flu epidemic, 18-year-old Vada came home from her job as a nurse to help Maggie with the sick young children. All the children recovered. Flu strains then were often deadliest for young adults. Vada became ill and died, of "double pneu-monie" it was said. Maggie kept Vada's photo on her wall until her 1967 death." --Thelma M. Rimmer McNair William M. 2/16/1883 3/25/1913 Patterson Isabell 5/27/1883 7/18/01 McNair Isabel 1814 7/26/56 d/o John & Nancy McF. McNair McNair John 1770 4/1841 s/o Edward & Mary McNair Wife: Nancy McFarland McNair Mary No Date No Date d/o John & Nancy McF. McNair McNair Nancy McFarland 1770s 1830s d/o John & Sarah McFarland w/o John McNair
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