Surveyed by Woodford Sherrill and Jack Ingram


This cemetery is located about 4 miles west of Ellerbe and about a mile north of Pleasant Hill 
Church/Cemetery on the old Pee Dee River road about 10 miles north of Rockingham, North Carolina.Steven Earl Newberry

The additional listings and remarks shown in RED are from the Historical Records Survey of North Carolina, 1937-1938 
by Mrs. Myrtle Porter Hamer. 
 
Contact: Myrtle Bridges  November 23, 2014  
Additional info. added Jan 19, 2018

Newberry Jonathan  --1753  1839  A soldier of the Revolutionary War
Pankey Martha	11/12/1844  	7/19/1845	d/o Stephen & Rachel Touchstone Pankey
Pankey Rebecca Jane  	1/9/1831	9/26/1840	d/o Samuel N. & Catherine McKenzie Pankey 
Pankey Rebecca Newberry 	1774  6-6-1826	d/o Jonathan & Martha Carter Newberry. Wife of Stephen Pankey
Pankey Stephen  	1753 (not 1760 as stated by MPH)  1/27/1863 Age 103 years.(see obit:) A soldier of the Revolutionary War 

Died in Richmond County 27 June 1863, Stephen Pankey, Sr., aged 100 years. For many years he was a devoted Christian, 
faithful in the discharge of all his duties, a good master, affectionate husband, and a kind neighbor. He was born in 
Virginia under the British government, passed through the revolution of 1776 in his boyhood; enjoyed the many blessings 
of peace and prosperity  of which followed and flowed from the bloody struggles of the revolution, and lived, to see the 
close of that government, and died admist the exciting scenes of the present revolution, leaving about one hundred of his 
lineal descendants in active service in the present war. S.M. Ingram  
Source: July 15, 1863 Issue Weekly Standard A newspaper printed in Raleight, NC 1859-1864    
Source: News Items & Marriage and Death Notices in Weekly Standard, Published by Myrtle N. Bridges 2003

Pankey Stephen P.  	1857  1867	s/o Stephen & Susanna Thomas Pankey
Pankey Susanna Thomas	1777	12/27/1859	2nd w/o Stephen Pankey
Died in Richmond county, on the 27th February Mrs. Susan Pankey, aged 82 years, wife of Stephen Pankey, Esq.   
Fayetteville Observer [Fayetteville, North Carolina] 4 Apr. 1859 (Myrtle N. Bridges, Aug. 21, 2018)

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