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Quaker Cemeteries

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Old Quaker Graveyard – Galax, Va. See Mt. Pleasant MM.

Oak Grove (John William Hollowell cemetery) – Eastern Quarter, N.C.

Location: (ca 1984-85) “This cemetery is located back of the home of D. Virgil Hollowell on the State Hospital Road one mile east of Warrick’s Mill” (VF). Wayne County, N.C. (CC)

Timeline: Established 1905. Laid down 1953 (handwritten notes-CC).

Survey: MS of annotated cemetery inscriptions of Oak Grove Friends Cemetery or John William Hollowell Cemetery (CC).
List of burials, copy from Olde Dobbs Trail newsletter, ca 1984-85 (VF). 

Other resources at Quaker Archives: See also Wayne Co. and Richmond Co. CC folder. Old negatives of Oak Grove church and possibly cemetery in Eleanor Bell papers, MS 572.

Last known ownership and care: Unknown

Old Neck (Toms graveyard)

Location: Perquimans County, N.C. “The old abandoned Toms graveyard lies near Sutton Creek probably about a mile from the main road to New Hope. … Across the Perquimans River from Old Neck is Newbold-White House.” (Rountree, below) 

Timeline: Started prior to property transfer in 1705 (Rountree, below). PM under Perquimans (Hinshaw) and Sutton's Creek (Weeks).

Survey: None

Other resources at Quaker Archives: MS Rountree, Carlton, “Historical Tour of Quaker Sites,”1993 (Eastern Quarter CC file)

Last known ownership and care: Unknown

Old Stone Graveyard (Mill Creek PM, Cox’s Settlement)

Location: Randolph County, N.C.

Timeline: Copy of 1785 commission to survey 50 acres for Benjamin Cox (CC).

Survey: List of names from Alamance Genealogist (1985) annotated by Lester M. Allen (CC).
Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2507475/mill-creek-friends-cemetery

Other resources at Quaker Archives: Clippings/articles with history (CC). Associated with Cane Creek and Holly Spring monthly meetings.

Last known ownership and care: Unknown