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Cemeteries of Mecklenburg County

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.

St. John's Church Cemetery

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.