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38290
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Concord’s First Presbyterian Church has a garden contained items not normally associated with such as place: tombstones. Because of this, Memorial Garden had more to offer to visitors than fragrant flora. It offered insights into the town’s history and stories of the town’s honored dead, with tombstone dates spanning between 1804-1999.
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38291
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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.
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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
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38599
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The company began in 1874 in Bridgeport, CT and made white bronze tombstones.
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Carolina Trees & Branches
(NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 18 Issue No. 1, January 2009,
p11-16, il
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44233
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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.
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North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal
(F253 .N882A), Vol. 5 Issue 3, August 1979,
p173-176, map
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