Quaker Cemeteries

Mill Creek Particular Meeting – see Old Stone Graveyard

Muddy Creek – see Union

Location: 2668 Marlboro Church Rd., Sophia, Randolph County, N.C.

Timeline: Marlborough PM under Centre MM; MM with Salem 1816 (Hinshaw). 1797: Deed for 3 acres and 117 poles including Marlborough meeting-house to Quakers, dated 5-16-1797, Randolph Co., Book 7, p. 156 (PA).

Survey: Haworth, Brenda Gray and Peggy Moffitt Redding, et al, Marlboro Friends Cemetery (Sophia, NC: Marlboro Friends Meeting, 1996).  Quaker Ref. BX 7780.M37 R52 1996 
[Welborn, Mrs. J.S., et al] “Marlboro Monthly Meeting, Randolph County, North Carolina,” Coltrane Family News, Vol. VII, No. 1 (Edited by J.S. Coltrane, Jr., January 1, 1991).
Cemetery Census: (2009) http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/rand/cem056.htm
RootsWeb: select photos http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jentaylor/Cemetery.html#Marlboro1
​Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2146335/marlboro-friends-meeting-cemetery

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

Current ownership and care: Active monthly meeting

Location: 3417 Mt. Carmel Church Rd., East Bend, Yadkin County, N.C.

Timeline: 1898: Deed of about 1 acre near Phillips graveyard to Society of Friends of Yadkin County and NCYM, dated 3-15-1898, Yadkin Co., Book R, p. 11 (D). 1903: Permanent Board had deed to Mt. Carmel, 3 miles south of Forbush Meeting, Yadkin Co. (PA). 1958: Deed of .72 acres adjacent property to (ditto), dated 9-23-1958, Yadkin Co., Book 83, p. 581 (D).

Survey: Cemetery Census: (2007) http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/yadk/cem024.htm
Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2441570/mount-carmel-friends-meeting-cemetery

Other resources at Quaker Archives: Photo of meeting house, history (VF)

Current ownership and care: Active monthly meeting

Location: Carroll County, Va. 219 Religion Road, Galax.

Timeline: Mt. Pleasant MM 1801 included Mt. Pleasant, Chestnut Creek and other meetings (Surry QM). Laid down 1817/1818 and succeeded by Chestnut Creek MM, which was laid down ca. 1826 (Hinshaw, Weeks). Revived as worship group under Mountain View MM 1960. Left NCYM ca. 1979 (reported to be disbanded between 1979 and 1989 by Hill, but congregation continued to meet without owning the property).
1826: Copy of (N.C.?) deed to James Edwards (CC-Old Quaker Graveyard).
1858-1859: Meeting for Sufferings investigating deeds for Mt. Pleasant and Chestnut Creek. Found one for Chestnut Creek, not one for Mt. Pleasant. 1892-1896: Representatives investigating about 20 acres in Carroll Co., Va., said to belong to Friends. (PA)
1964: Permanent Board settling claims around Old Quaker Graveyard near Galax, Va. 1967: approved $700 to settle new building debt at Mt. Pleasant. 1978-1979: Mt. Pleasant withdrawing from NCYM. References deed of 1797 recorded April 1798, including meetinghouse and graveyard. Title search, court action recommended. 1981: Survey completed, deed cleared for 1.98 acres, “far less than the 7 or 8 acres made in the deed in 1797 due to [uncontested] encroachment by surrounding land owners.” Title of “Chestnut Creek Friends Meeting” includes cemetery and land surrounding meetinghouse. (PA)
Deed of 1.9763 acres with a church and adjoining cemetery, dated 8-26-1981, Carroll Co., Va. References prior deeds of 9-25-1797, in then Grayson Co, Va., Book 1, p. 161 and of 6-6-1925, Carroll Co., Va. Deed Book 54, p. 41. Called Chestnut Creek Meeting House, Old Quaker Graveyard, and Mt. Pleasant Meeting House. (D)
2019: Land with care of cemetery deeded to Mount Pleasant Bible Church from NCYM, Inc. (NCYM correspondence and Carroll Co. GIS)

Survey: Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2292230/old-quaker-cemetery

Other resources at Quaker Archives: Photos, brief history (VF). Correspondence ca 2005-2011 with some history and names (CC-Old Quaker Graveyard).

Current ownership and care: Mount Pleasant Bible Church

Location: 1664 Fries Rd., Galax, Grayson County, Va.

Timeline: 1905: Deed of about ½ acre in Grayson County, Va. to NCYM Trustees, on New River, in the Old Town District, adjacent Lee Lenard, “from the N.E. corner of Mountain View Friends Meeting House,” 10-4-1905, Grayson Co. Deed Book 32, pp 402-403 (D).
PM 1906 under Center Valley, later Galax MM. MM 1941. Merged with Center Valley 1982 (Hill).

Survey: Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2456934/mountain-view-friends-church-cemetery

Other resources at Quaker Archives: Photo, brief history (VF). Limited correspondence about raising funds (CC).

Current ownership and care: Active monthly meeting