Old Slave Cemetery
On property
across from Howie Mine Baptist Church (6401
Howie Mine Church Road, Waxhaw, NC 28173). This is in Sandy
Ridge Township, Union County, North Carolina, about 3.5 miles NE of Waxhaw, NC.
According to Charles Bivens' cemetery survey
page, you turn right on Howie Mine Church Road--Turn right off
Waxhaw-Indian Trail Road and go 6/10 of a mile and turn right again. Go a short
distance and again turn right. Behind a house in the woods.
He describes it as abandoned, approximately 32
graves, readable markers: two (slate), and last know date of burial 1839.
Beside "any other information” he has listed:
"Toby-1839-James."
Thanks to Ann
Medlin Price for providing the above info!
This page created Jan. 22, 2010 by Julie Hampton Ganis