This cemetery thought to be destroyed long ago is near the Alex Burke property in the bend on TSC road just off of State highway #3 south of New Castle. When I started doing research on Henry County cemeteries. I came across information that the Methodist Episcopal Church on 25 Mar 1837 set aside land for a cemetery. The Church was started on 28 Dec 1835 and continued until about 1910, Seventy-five years. I knew for a church to be there that long there had to be some burials in there somewhere. After checking with Alex, I started probing around and soon uncovered several stones. I returned a few days later and soon discovered that there were quite a few burials in there. This is a list of some of the stones that I uncovered. I am sure there are several more stones still undiscovered in here, I probed about half of the cemetery.
Name
Died
Born
Other
Biggers, Alice C.
7 Jun 1863
2m, 5d
D. of J. A. & B. J.
Biggers, Charles R.
3 Nov 1865
23 Nov 1865
Son of JA & BJ
Biggers, Mary A.
3 Jul 1865
9m
D. of JA & BJ
Carpenter, Sarah J.
10 Sep 1843
1y, 3m, 16d
D. of Geo. & M.
Moss, Jesse J.
17 Mar 1863
72y
Husband of Dorsey
Redding, Anna W.
15 Apr 1853
50y, 8m, 4d
Wife of Iredell
Redding, Huldah
14 Sep 18
-
Randolph Co., NC
Redding, Iredell
18 Nov 1862
55y, 2m, 29d
Husband of Anna
Redding, James A.
14 Feb 1840
4y
Son of Iredell & Anna
Redding, T. R.
21 Feb 1846
-
-
Redding, Infant
6 Apr 1860
-
-
Redding, Infant
21 Dec 1862
-
-
Stigleman, Catharine
19 Jul 1869
25y, 2m, 18d
Wife of Marlin
Walker, Mary
11 Oct 1859
39y, 4m, 28d
Wife of John
Wimmer, William J.
9 Nov 1861
8m. 9d
Son of L. & G. Wimmer
Readable foot stones : H. M. and E. W. There are a lot of broken and unreadable stones here.
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