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.
The cemetery is located behind the church. It can be viewed best from the parking lot.
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
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.
This cemetery has many unmarked graves and only one readable stone. In 2001, the property was owned by the Bethel Fire Baptist Holiness Church of God of the America. This cemetery can only be easily identified from Dorman Lane by one large stone.
Documentation
(1) Pam Rasfeld abstracted this cemetery on 11/13/1999.
(2) This cemetery was abstracted by Jane Johnson in 10/2001.
See also Historic Matthews Cemetery.
A plaque on the church says it was built in 1885 and rebuilt in 1935. This is not a complete list of burials. The cemetery is across the street from the church and can be seen from the road.
The church owned another cemetery on Wendover, near the intersection with Marvin Road. According to an article on page 20B of The Charlotte Observer on 9/28/1977, there were several stones on the property. One was marked Anne Kinto, 1/30/1888. A member of the D.A.R. at the time of the article believed this to be a slave cemetery. The Observer also wrote about the cemetery on 1/16/1978, p.9B. A more recent article in The Charlotte Post dated 8/11/2004 says the property belonged to the Lloyd Presbyterian Church and has at least 86 graves.