Quaker Cemeteries

Wateree – Kershaw County, S.C. See Camden.

Wells – see Piney Woods.

Location: 4106 Greenhill Rd., Snow Camp, Alamance County, N.C.

Timeline: PM under Rich Square MM. MM 1915 (Hill). 

Survey: Cemetery Census: (2006) http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/alam/cem025.htm
Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2320145/west-grove-friends-meeting-cemetery

Other resources at Quaker Archives: History, meeting house photo (VF)

Current ownership and care: Active monthly meeting

Location: 3161 Old Westfield Road, Westfield, Surry County, N.C. 

Timeline: Tom's Creek started ca 1771, PM 1784 under New Garden MM. Westfield MM 1786. Laid down ca. 1832 with members transferred to Deep Creek MM (Hinshaw). Re-established 1868 (Hill); MM 1883 (minutes start 1883).
1797: Deed for 9 acres including Westfield meetinghouse and burying ground to Quakers, dated 7-19-1797, Surry Co. Book G, p. 82 (PA, D). 1844-1845: Meetinghouse sold and land surveyed. 1848-1849: Meetinghouse use by another denomination considered; fell through. 1850: Contract for half of the house to be covered. 1858-1860: Authorized to sell meeting house and land. Westfield Meeting house and lot sold. (PA) 1860: Deed for 9 acres on waters of Toms Creek, known as Westfield Meeting house ground and Grave yard, from NCYM Trustees to trustees of Westfield neighborhood, dated 4-21-1860, “to remain for all time to come as a public burying ground and meeting place for all respectable religious peoples.” Proven 2-19-1861, Surry Co. (D) 1871: New Friends Meeting at Westfield in Surry Co. request old meeting property sold in 1851 be bought again. 1872: Deed of about 9 acres on Toms Creek [bought back] to Trustees for Society of Friends [Westfield MM], dated 3-12-1872, Surry Co. Book 14, p. 46. Fragment of 1872 deed given to Deep Creek MM. (D). Recorded 11-4-1872. 1891: Money collected to build a meeting house in the limits of Westfield MM. (PA)

Survey: Cemetery Census:(2006) http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/surr/cem280.htm
Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2337958/westfield-friends-cemetery

Other resources at Quaker Archives: Histories, including 1915 senior thesis. Meetinghouse photos. (VF) 

Current ownership and care: Active monthly meeting

Location: 859 Old Highway 601, White Plains, Surry County, N.C.

Timeline: MM ca 1886 (Weeks; MM minutes start 1890). 1883: Deed for 2 acres on Stardes Creek to Trustees of NCYM, dated 10-30-1883, Surry Co. Book 20, p. 459 (D). 1944-1945: Deed transferred to White Plains Meeting so they can deed cemetery lots to individuals (PA).

Survey: Cemetery Census: (2006) http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/surr/cem284.htm
Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2252066/white-plains-friends-meeting-cemetery

Other resources at Quaker Archives: Photos. Article briefly mentions cemetery (VF).

Current ownership and care: Active monthly meeting

Location: Wayne County, N.C., 5 miles southwest of Goldsboro.

Timeline: Started ca. 1870 (Weeks). PM 1875 under Neuse MM, MM 1883. Laid down ca. 1994. (Hill)

Survey: Draft MS of tombstone inscriptions (CC)
Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2482063/woodland-friends-cemetery

Other resources at Quaker Archives: Correspondence, photo of bench marker. Copy of deed, 1994 (CC). See also Wayne Co. & Richmond Co. CC file. Photos, histories; one article shows a tombstone (VF). 

Current ownership and care: NCYM (2011)

Location: McDuffie County, Georgia. From The Story of Wrightsboro: “In 1774 the Friends built a new meeting-house of ‘heart-pine located in the middle of a burial ground….’ No trace of this building remains. Although two Quaker burial-grounds have been located, there is no way of telling which of the two, if either, is the site of the meeting house. It could have been built on the same property as the older one, as deeds in Columbia county courthouse seem to indicate.”

“One of the ‘burying-grounds’ is located about a mile east of the existing Methodist Church, on a hill-side overlooking Middle Creek, south of the old Wrightsboro Road.” A low rock wall enclosure with a few graves.

“The other burial ground is located between Maddock’s creek and Highway 78, on the south side of the old Wrightsboro-Augusta road. It is about 200 feet back in the woods, in a tangle of blackberry briars and honey-suckle vines, and grown up in trees.” (Chapter 4, unpaginated)

Timeline: MM 1773. Laid down ca. 1805 (Hinshaw, Weeks, minutes).

Survey: None known.

Other resources at Quaker Archives: Baker, Pearl, The Story of Wrightsboro, 1768-1964 (1980). List of grants in Wrightsborough. Histories and articles (VF).

Current ownership and care: Unknown.