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Cemeteries of Mecklenburg County

Carmel Presbyterian Church

It belonged to a church that existed between 1906-1928. Family names are Alexander, Brown, Flenniken, Rankin, Hutchison and Sample. Located behind the fence of the Essex Condominiums near the corner of Providence and Sardis Rds., it is best viewed from the parking lot. The cemetery is fenced and behind a private home.

1) "Cemetery of Carmel Presbyterian Church," by Kathlee Hicks for the  Olde Mecklenburg Genealogical Society Quarterly, vol. 10, no.2 (April-May-June, 1992), pages 44-5.

Cashion and Moore Family Cemetery

See also Rocky River Baptist Church Cemetery in this database. Early Family Burial Grounds of Mecklenburg County, NC, 1763 Late 1800, compiled by the Alexandriana, Gen. Robert Irwin and Jane Parks McDowell Chapters of the DAR (in Carolina Room vertical file labeled Cemeteries.)

Cedar Grove

Survey was done by William J. Charles survey for the Mecklenburg Genealogical Society, on 2-14-1983. This cemetery has a large sign at the entrance on Hildebrand St.

"Historic Cemeteries Neglected," by Linda Brown, The Charlotte Observer, 10-18-1985, page 1C. 

Cemetery in Crown Harbor

This cemetery has mostly unmarked graves. The graves not marked are hard to determine because of the natural erosion on this hilly property and the number of fallen trees in this wooded area. The many dead trees and limbs make access difficult. There were only three readable stones found in 2003. This cemetery is believed to have once been a church cemetery, but it is unknown whether others in the community ever used it. Due to the dates on the stones, it does not appear to have been used since the 1910s at the latest. This is not a complete list of burials.

Center Grove AME Zion Cemetery, Site #1

This cemetery was near an early Mecklenburg County poor house. Some researchers believe the dead were victims of the Charlotte small pox epidemic in 1896. ON 4/16/1954, 28 African-Americans remains were moved by the Board of School Commissioners from this cemetery to Sec. B, Row #11 in Pinewood North. One oral history recently revealed that around 1915-1919, some of this cemetery was paved over with the city's knowledge. Efforts are being made to determine if there is any link between these deceased and the slaves of Rosedale and surrounding farms.