EDMUND DAVIS CEMETERY

 

New Salem Township, Union County, North Carolina

Located 1 mile off Olive Branch Road in a pasture up on a hill. It's on private property, although they will not stop you if you take the way that is marked with a sign (you may need a 4WD vehicle though!).

 

This listing is taken from Clara Laney’s 1958 “Union County Cemeteries 1710-1914 and Roster of Confederate and Revolutionary Soldiers”.  Some added information in Remarks column and at the end comes from a 2004 visit by Patricia Poland accompanied by descendants of Rev. Edmund Davis: Susie Williams Litaker and her daughter Jenell Litaker Davis.

 

 

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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jganis/unionco/photos/DavisCem-view2004.jpg

Submitted by Bob Johnson.

 

Cedar tree near center of cemetery.

Submitted by Patricia Poland.

 

View from cemetery, Oct. 2004.

Submitted by Patricia Poland.

 

 

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Getting to the Davis Cemetery off Olive Branch Rd., taken by Patricia Poland 2004.

View from Olive Branch Rd., taken by Patricia Poland 2004.

 

 

 NAME          

BORN

DIED 

REMARKS

                                   

 

 

 

 Allen, R.        

 (???)  

12/ /1871        

 

 Allen, S. J.     

5/2/1847         

9/4/1882         

Wife of G. D. Allen

 Austin, J. M. 

4/ /1844          

6/18/1862       

 

 Austin, J. T.   

6/5/1845         

11/6/1862       

 

                                   

 

 

 

 Broom, D.     

11/19/1824     

7/9/1899         

 

                                   

 

 

 

 Crook, Cecelia           

9/3/(???)         

12/15/1891     

 

 Crook, Lelia  

9/3/(???)         

12/15/1891     

 

                                   

 

 

 

 Davis, Rev. E.L.           

2/19/1813       

6/6/1896         

 (TOMBSTONE PHOTO)

 Davis, Sarah L.           

8/27/1822       

4/8/1896         

72 yrs 7 mos 11 days

           

           

           

(4th ) Wife of Rev. E. L. Davis. (daughter of  William Hamilton & Sarah Griffin , married first G. W. M. Yarborough)

                                   

 

 

 

 Gaddy, May  

4/14/1891       

9/4/1895         

Dau of J.C. & G.L.

 Gaddy, Infant Dau           

12/31/1898     

1/15/1899       

Dau of Wm. H. & Martha P.

 Gaddy, Wm. H.           

 (???)1858      

 (???)1893      

 

 Gaddy, Martha P.           

 (???)1861      

 (???)1950      

Wife of Wm. H. Gaddy

 Godwin, Inf. dau           

5/5/1894         

5/5/1894         

Dau of W.F. & F.E.

 Godwin, Mary E.           

6/11/1898       

6/27/1898       

Dau of John & S.L.

 Griffin, Beedy C.           

1868   

1887   

See Hornback

 Griffin, B. W.           

 (???)  

 (???)  

Age 1 yr 6 mos.

 Griffin, E. C. 

10/11/1832     

8/7/1893         

(Elizabeth, d/o E. L. Davis)

 Griffin, J. K. 

12/20/1816     

4/24/1902       

 

 Griffin, Mellissa           

3/30/1854       

1/26/1863       

 (2 “L’s” were noted in 1st name)

 Griffin, R. H.[1]           

 (???)  

3/23/1877       

Age 67 years

 Griffin, Sophia           

9/10/1817       

12/30/1872     

Age 55 yrs 3 mos 20 da.

                                   

 

 

 

Hornback, Beedy C.          Griffin

1868   

1887   

(TOMBSTONE PHOTO)

Wife of K.M. Hornback  (misspelled on stone as “Hornbeak”)

 

 

 

 

 Lingle, Alexander            

           

           

 

 Lingle, Charlotte            

           

           

 

 Lingle, Daughter            

           

           

 

 Little, L. M. [2]            

2/8/1829         

1/10/1903       

 (see footnotes)

                                   

 

 

 

 Medlin, Homer            

           

           

           

 Medlin, Howell            

           

           

           

 Moore, Andrew [3]           

1/17/1820       

8/2/1886         

 

 Moore, Boyce F.           

5/26/1912       

8/27/1917       

Son of A.W. & J.M.

 Moore, B. F.  

8/19/1847       

6/11/1918       

 

 Moore, Cyrene           

6/22/1856       

9/28/1863       

Dau of F.A. & Mary A.

 Moore, Elizabeth           

2/26/1832       

10/29/1863     

Dau of A. & Mary A.

 Moore, E.      

2/22/1852       

10/25/1863     

11 yrs 8 mo & 8 days

 Moore, H. M.

4/1/1861         

1/19/1895       

Has footstone – H M M  (TOMBSTONE PHOTO)           

 Moore, Inf. son           

3/16/1880       

3/17/1880       

Son of Jas. A.& Sarah F.

 Moore, Jane   

9/12/1842??    

12/28/1847     

 

 Moore, Mary A.           

2/4/1823         

3/20/1878       

Wife of Andrew Moore

 Moore, Mary J.           

11/8/1850       

2/6/1920         

 

 Moore, Mary J.           

9/5/1886         

10/9/1886       

Dau of B.F. & M.J.

 Moore, Sarah F.           

 (???)  

8/11/1880       

Age 23 yrs 8 mos 18 da

Wife of James A. Moore, Dau of H.R.& A.C.Pritchard

 Moore, William           

7/30/1842       

6/25/1862       

 

                                   

 

 

 

 Newsom, Christian           

6/7/1826         

11/5/1903       

           

 Newsom, Isaac           

 (???)  

3/24/1872       

 

 Newsom, Thetus           

3/9/1829         

4/28/1903       

 

                                   

 

 

 

 Parker, Infant

3/3/1904         

3/3/1904         

Inf of E.L. & R.L.  (TOMBSTONE PHOTO)           

 Parker, Netra Ann           

12/22/1881     

6/4/1883         

Dau of W.L. & J.J.

 Perry, J. J. [4]   

1/23/1880       

9/18/1882       

 

 Pritchard, Arementer C.       

11/25/1831     

2/5/1895         

Wife of H. R. Pritchard

 Pritchard, H. R.           

12/11/1822     

12/29/1901     

 

 Pritchard, Julius W.           

9/18/1867       

9/23/1949       

 

                                   

 

 

 

 Sinclair, E. L.            

No dates         

No dates         

Age 1 Yr 11 mo 13 days

 Smith, Hattie L.           

11/25/1865     

12/10/1894     

 

 Smith, John   

2/4/1876         

11/8/1891       

15 years

 Smith, John W. [5]           

1/22/1822       

1/3/1904         

 

 Smith, Margaret E.           

2/24/1839       

11/20/1891     

 

 Smith, Nellie 

No dates         

No dates         

Aged 2 Yr  2 Mo 24 Days (TOMBSTONE PHOTO)

 

 

 

 

 Stegall, B. M.

2/23/1858       

2/23/1885       

(Stone broken as of 2004)

 Stegall, Lemuel           

10/26/1888     

9/2/1934         

Son of W.J. & M.Stegall

                                   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Thomas Ananias, Sr           

10/4/1779       

11/16/1861     

 

 Thomas, A. Jr.           

 (???)  

2/21/1858       

 

 Thomas, E. B.           

 (???)1820      

           

(Married Mary Green)

 Thomas, Jacob           

7/11/1823       

10/22/1837     

 

 Thomas, L. F.

4/3/1889         

10/30/1889     

5 mos 20 days

 Thomas, Sarah           

 (???)  

8/9/1867         

Wife of Ananias Thomas Sr.

 

 

 

 

 Unknown      

           

           

Partial stone or rock between

E. L. & Sarah Davis

 Unknown      

           

           

Partial stone or rock between

E. L. & Sarah Davis



NOTE:  More information can be found on Rev. Edmund L. Davis in the following:

 

-First Baptist Church, Monroe, NC 1852-1989, (1989) pp 16-18.

 

-A History of the Brown Creek Union Baptist Association, by Rev.’s Preslar, Bivens, and Black (1919)  pp 286-290.

 

-The Heritage of Union County, North Carolina, 1842-1992,  Vol. 1, (1993) article by Margery S. Griffin, “The Reverend E. L. Davis.”

 

-“Davis Family”, Our Heritage column by Ida Williams Austin in the Monroe Enquirer, 29 MAY 1958, p 2.

 

 

FOOTNOTES:


[1] -Wednesday, March 28, 1877  WEEKLY ANSONIAN (Polkton, Anson Co, NC) -Died: In Union Co. on the 23rd, Mr. Riley GRIFFIN, father of Sheriff J.W. GRIFFIN.  He had been affected with a goiter for many years and its recent enlargement caused his death.

 

[2] -Lorenzo Merriman Little. See tombstone photo closeup submitted by Bob Johnson, and distant view by Patricia Poland. Also see article: Tarheels with Jesse James.

 

[3] -Same person? Thursday, August 5, 1886 ANSON TIMES (Wadesboro, Anson County, NC) -J. A. MOORE, of Union, father of the later Alexander MOORE, of this town, committed suicide by hanging himself August 2nd. Mr. MOORE had been suffering from an incurable disease, and was not responsible for the act.

 

[4] -September 29, 1882, THE LANDMARK (Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina) -The Monroe Enquirer-Express says a little son of Mr. James PERRY, of Union county, got a chinquepin hull into its wind-pipe, last Monday week.  Nothing could be done for the child’s relief and it died in about two hours.

 

[5] -Tuesday, January 12, 1904, THE MONROE JOURNAL (Union County, N.C.) -Esq. J. W. SMITH of Olive Branch died on the 3rd instant.  He was 82 years old.  For a portion of his life he lived in Stanly county, from which he was sent to the State senate.  Mr. SMITH was an up-right honest man and useful citizen.

 

 

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This page updated Sept. 2, 2007