Record #:

44233

Author(s):

Leon, Robert; Shaw, Betsy J.

Abstract:

The city cemetery in Raleigh was established in 1798. Records of the cemetery were destroyed by fire in the 1890s and again in the 1930s. Interesting is a handwritten notebook by cemetery superintendent in 1934 with two pages entitled "People Buried in the Colored Part of the Cemetery". The listing abstracted here combines the superintendent's list with the available recorded tombstones.

Source:

North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal (F253 .N882A), Vol. 5 Issue 3, August 1979, p173-176, map

Subject(s):

Cemeteries--Raleigh--African American; Tombstones; African Americans--Cemeteries--Raleigh