Quaker Cemeteries

Location: 1217 W. Main St., Yadkinville, Yadkin County, N.C.

Timeline: 1923: Trustees deeded meeting property to local trustees so they could borrow money to finish the meetinghouse. Yadkinville. 1963: Deed/title transferred to trustees of MM. 1970: deed to a tract of land transferred “back” to the MM. (PA)

Survey: Cemetery Census: (2007)
South: http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/yadk/cem033.htm
North: http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/yadk/cem032.htm
Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2162212/harmony-grove-friends-church-cemetery

Other resources at Quaker Archives: Meeting house photos, history (VF)

Current ownership and care: Active monthly meeting

Location: 1159 NC Hwy. 22, High Falls, Moore County, N.C.

Timeline: 1905: Deed of about one acre in Ritters Township to Trustees of NCYM, dated 10-11-1905, Moore Co., Book 33, p. 281 (PA, D). 1905: a lot and donation given toward erection of a meetinghouse. 1957: Deed transferred to MM to secure a loan; to be returned to NCYM when loan paid (PA).

Survey: Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2167744/high-falls-friends-church-cemetery
Cemetery Census: (2013) http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/moor/cem020.htm

Other resources at Quaker Archives: Parker, Anthony E., A Guide to Moore County Cemeteries (Moore County Historical Association).  Quaker Ref F 262.M7 P37 (directions only). Meeting house photos, history. (VF) 

Current ownership and care: Active monthly meeting

Location: Dudley, Wayne County, N.C.

Timeline: 1928: Cemetery enclosed with a fence (replaced later). 1995 and later: Fees and trust fund raised by descendants, to be transferred with property to NCYM. (CC)

Survey: Annotated burials (CC)
Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2567321/massey-hollowell-cemetery

Other resources at Quaker Archives: History to 2000 of cemetery care and establishment of a trust fund with cemetery deeded to trustees, unsigned 2003 deed, correspondence of this and other cemetery trust funds ca. 2011, marker and photos ca. 2000. (CC) See also Oak Grove, Wayne Co. & Richmond Co. CC folders.

Current ownership and care: (2011) NCYM: care by a specified subcommittee of NCYM Cemetery Committee.

Location: 2938 Holly Spring Rd., Ramseur, Randolph County, N.C.

Timeline: PM 1790 under Cane Creek MM; MM 1818 (Weeks, Hinshaw). 1813: Deed of gift for 50 acres to trustees of Holly Spring preparative meeting for Quakers, dated 7-15-1813, Randolph Co., Book 12, p. 292 (PA).

Survey: Cemetery Census: (2009) http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/rand/cem058.htm
Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1997726/holly-spring-friends-meeting-cemetery
Tombstone list (1933) (VF)

Other resources at Quaker Archives: Articles, meeting house photos (VF).
(Note: CC also has a file on Friendsville, or Holly Spring Conservative, but this appears to be a meeting house restoration and not a cemetery.) See also Old Stone Graveyard.

Current ownership and care: Active monthly meeting

Location: 2825 Pleasant Ridge Rd., Summerfield, NC 27358.

Timeline: Lower Reedy Fork; renamed Hopewell 1793 under New Garden MM. MM 1824. Laid down 1849, with members transferred to New Garden MM (Hinshaw, Weeks). Deed for two acres, Guilford Co., Book M, p. 22. 1837: deed reported “mislaid.” 1858-1859: Meetinghouse decaying. Approved selling house and land except graveyard. House and land sold. (PA)

Survey: Scarlette, Gladys, “Hopewell Wesleyan Church Cemetery,” The Guilford Genealogist, Winter 1993, pp 110-125. (copy in VF) 

Other resources at Quaker Archives: Brittain, John T., “Old Hopewell Has Long History,” The Guilford Genealogist, Winter 1993 (1932, edited 1993), pp 101-109. (ms copy in VF)
ms, “Hopewell Church and Neighborhood in Guilford County” (VF)

Last known ownership and care: (1993) Articles imply Hopewell Wesleyan Church.

Location: 2244 Hopewell Friends Rd (SR-1142) and intersection with Danny Bell Rd (SR-1162), Randolph County, N.C.

Timeline: Started 1885 under Back Creek MM; MM 1916 (Weeks).  

Survey: Cemetery Census: (2009) http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/rand/cem079.htm
Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2237002/hopewell-friends-meeting-cemetery

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

Current ownership and care: Active monthly meeting

Location: 4528 Hunting Creek Church Rd., Hamptonville, Yadkin County, N.C.

Timeline: 1799: Deed for 2 acres at Hunting Creek Meeting to the Quakers for use of a graveyard, meeting-house and school, but no other use, dated 5-4-1799, in then Surry Co. (now Yadkin Co.). Not recorded (PA, D). MM 1891 (Weeks).

Survey: Cemetery Census: (2010) http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/yadk/cem076.htm
Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2209581/hunting-creek-friends-church-cemetery

Other resources at Quaker Archives: Meeting history (VF)

Current ownership and care: Active monthly meeting