Record #:

38291

Author(s):

Graff, Michael

Abstract:

Profiled are Calvary Episcopal Church and Churchyard, Tarboro; Old Burying Ground, Beaufort; St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Bath; Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington. Accompanying photos of cemeteries and tombstones was information such as brief church histories and cemeteries’ unique qualities. As for their tombstones, they are utilitarian and decorative, indicating aspects such as religious affiliation; economic status; relationship to other families in the cemetery; evidence or absence of kinship to the Coastal Plain region’s earliest settlers.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 78 Issue 10, Mar 2011, p56-75 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Calvary Episcopal Church (Tarboro); Calvary Episcopal Church and Churchyard (Tarboro) ; Old Burying Ground (Beaufort); St. Thomas Episcopal Church (Bath); Oakdale Cemetery (Wilmington); Calvary Episcopal Church (Tarboro)--All Saints' Chapel; Cheshire, Joseph Blount, 1814-1899; Cemeteries--North Carolina, Eastern; Cemeteries--North Carolina, Coastal Plain; Tombstones; Gravestones; Taylor, Nathaniel; Taylor Creek (Beaufort); Water table--North Carolina; Family cemeteries--Bath ; Rural cemetery movement--Oakdale Cemetery--Wilmington; Wootten, Bradley Jewett, 1876-1901; Langdon, Richard F., 1828-1895; Murchinson, David Reid, 1837-1882; Rural cemeteries--North Carolina--Oakdale Cemetery; Civil War veterans--Wilmington--Oakdale Cemetery

Record #:

13717

Author(s):

Graff, Michael

Abstract:

Graff describes cemeteries in towns including Tarboro, Beaufort, and Wilmington in this pictorial essay.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 78 Issue 10, Mar 2001, p56-75, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Cemeteries--North Carolina, Eastern