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Revolutionary War-era cemetery

See also Liberty Hall / Queens Museum. This cemetery was in the front yard of the original Queens Museum/Liberty Hall school for young men, located in Charlotte. British soldiers killed at Trade and Tryon, during the occupation of Charlotte, were buried there. This location has no evidence of a former cemetery.

 

Documentation

The Charlotte Observer, 6/7/1936, "Interesting Carolina People", by Mrs. J. A. Yarbrough.

Slave Cemetery

History:

A member of the Torrence family says the cemetery was started for their slaves. The family had a home and property around the present-day Presbyterian Hospital on Elizabeth Ave. in Charlotte.

Documentation:

Undated newspaper article by John W. Harden

Location:

Pinewood Cemetery

This cemetery is owned by the City of Charlotte and was originally designated for African-Americans. In a 1893 report from the Good Samaritan Hospital, some of the patients who died that year were buried in Pinewood in the Hospital lot at the expense of the hospital. The names of these in question as of 11/2004 are included and are provided by Historic Charlotte. Only a few burial records have been listed in this database. For all burial information, please call the number for the city of Charlotte cemeteries.

Two images show Charlotte city cemetery staff about 1945 -

Robin McGee Cemetery

The plaque at the cemetery says the cemetery started in 1847. This cemetery can be seen from the road. It is on fenced, private property and has a gate.

Smartt Cemetery

When this cemetery was relocated to Sharon Memorial Park in 1988, the tombstones could not accompany the remains, since the cemetery only allows flat markers. The tombstones were placed in Steele Creek Presbyterian Church in 2007. Directions given in an early source say to go 1 1/2 mile on Nations Ford Rd. past the WBT Radio Station. Take the first dirt road to the left through the Kirkpatrick place to the Pineville water line. The cemetery is to the right in a wooded area surrounded by a five foot stone wall.

 

Documentation

Plaza Road Baptist Church and Cemetery

A list of burials is an article entitled "Plaza Road Baptist Church", by Sharon Baker, Olde Mecklenburg Genealogical Society, Vol. 12, #2, 1994. This cemetery is behind the church and cannot be viewed from the street.

Spratt Cemetery

There is information about this cemetery in Hunter's Sketches of Western North Carolina and Foote's Sketches of North Carolina. 

 

Documentation

(1) Violet G. Alexander wrote about this cemetery in the North Carolina Booklet, Vol. 15, pps. 152-157.

(2)  See also Kytja Weir, "WHEN LOST GRAVES AND GROWTH COLLIDE - PROJECT ON HOLD AS HOSPITAL RELOCATES 1770S CEMETERY", Charlotte Observer, May 17, 2007, p.1A

Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church and Cemetery

According to the stone marker in the cemetery, this church was organized in 1888 with services held in a brush arbor directly across the road. A building was placed there the same year. It was replaced in 1908 by a building on this site. A third structure was built one and a half miles east of here. The original acre of land in this park was donated by Rachel Hutchinson, whose burial was the first made on it. The burial records were provided by the Pleasant Grove Memorial Park Cemetery Committee in May 2006.