Quaker Cemeteries

Location: Cemetery St., East Bend, Yadkin County, N.C.

Timeline: MM ca. 1882 (Weeks). 1885: Two acres in town of East Bend, to NCYM trustees, dated 7-16-1885, Yadkin Co. Book G, p. 289 (D).1888: Deed of 5 and ¾ acres to Trustees of NCYM, dated 2-7-1888, Yadkin Co. Book K, p. 416. 1902: East Bend MM requested deed to a corner of their property to sell it. 8-11-1916: Requested and approved deed from Trustees to sell 0.7 acre. 6-28-1952: approved deed transfer of East Bend property from YM trustees to the MM. (PA)
Two 1906 deeds in Yadkin County to NCYM could possibly be East Bend MM, no burials permitted on the larger property. Right of way deed of July 1952 from NCYM trustees (D).

Survey: Cemetery Census: (2007) http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/yadk/cem009.htm
Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2281214/east-bend-friends-cemetery

Other resources at Quaker Archives: Article, history (VF)

Current ownership and care: Active monthly meeting

Location: Chatham County, N.C.

Timeline: Worship by 1870, PM 1890-1891 under Cane Creek MM. MM 1908 (VF). 

Survey: Cemetery Census: (list submitted by volunteers 2000, photos 2008) http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/chat/cem238.htm

Other resources at Quaker Archives: Edward Hill Friends Meeting 1890-1990 (VF) 

Current ownership and care: Active monthly meeting

Location: (1999) Quaker Cemetery on the southwest corner of Boston Ave. and Pear Tree Road in Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, N.C. (CC)

Timeline: Started as worship group ca. 1700; PM 1745 under Symons Creek MM. 1844: Meeting house and most of property sold, excluding the graveyard, which was enclosed (see Rountree, below). 

Survey: No marked graves.

Other resources at Quaker Archives: Rountree, Carlton White, "The Quaker Meeting Near the Narrows of Pasquotank," The Southern Friend, Vol. XVI, Nos. 1 and 2, Spring-Autumn 1994, pp 64-76.

Last known ownership and care: (2008) NCYM. As of 1999, a neighbor was encroaching with a shed and junk (Eastern Quarter CC file and Wayne Co. and Richmond Co. CC file).

Location: Located near the Eno River in present county of Orange; one mile north of Hillsborough, twenty miles north east from Spring MM. (VF)

Timeline: Meetings for worship by 1751, 1753 PM under Cane Creek, 1761 under Spring MM. Laid down 1847 (Weeks, see Newlin below).
1768: Deed for 5 acres (to?) Eno Meeting, dated 7-15-1768, Orange Co., Book C (or E?)  no. 2, p. 159. Representative Body 1875-1876: investigated Eno Meeting lot but no title found. Nearly 1 acre with dilapidated log house, good stone wall, still used as a burying place. (PA)

Survey: Mr. and Mrs. L.S. Hornaday, Jr., Piedmont North Carolina Cemeteries, Vol. III (Burlington, NC: 1991).  Quaker Ref. BX 7649.P53 
Engstrom, Mary Claire, “Early Quakers in the Eno River Valley ca. 1750-1847,” Eno, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1989. (CC - Eno Cemetery Com. box)
Cemetery Census: (2005) http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/orng/cem064.htm
1987 ms list of headstones by (Ted Perkins? and) Robert H. Cook (1959) (VF). Copies from books, including history and burials (CC).

Newlin, Algie I. Friends “at the Spring” – A History of Spring Monthly Meeting, 1984. Quaker BX7780.S56 N48 1984

Current ownership and care: Unknown; possibly State of N.C. as abandoned cemetery. A land developer had surveyed through the site prior to 2002, and relinquished a small portion including the cemetery after complaint. (CC)