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M - Quaker Cemeteries by Monthly Meeting

Mill Creek Particular Meeting – see Old Stone Graveyard

Muddy Creek – see Union

Marlboro Monthly Meeting

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 alMarlboro 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 careActive monthly meeting

Mount Carmel 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 careActive monthly meeting

Mount Pleasant Monthly Meeting (Chestnut Creek, Old Quaker Graveyard)

Location: Carroll County, Va. Two miles south of Galax (Hill).

Timeline: Mt. Pleasant MM 1801 included Mt. Pleasant, Chestnut Creek and other meetings. 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; disbanded between 1979 and 1989 (Hill).
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)

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: NCYM (D)

Mountain View

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