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Forest Lawn Cemetery West

This cemetery is located on both sides of Freedom Dr. The photo of the gates is the cemetery entrance on the south side of the street. 

Hopewell Baptist Church and Cemetery

This church was organized in 1879. The cemetery is located behind the church and is visible from the street.

 

Documentation

(1) William J. Charles survey for the Mecklenburg Genealogy Society on 7-19-1983. 

Lawing School Rd. Cemetery

There are several unmarked graves. Some are marked with a variety of objects - a stone, a cross attached to concrete, etc., but they have no names or dates. Research June White thinks there may be two different church cemeteries near each other. The earlier cemetery is slightly north of this known cemetery. For this reason, the name Lawing School Rd. Cemetery will remain. The current owner is the Mt. Pleasant AME Zion Church, 1100 Fox Run Dr., Charlotte, NC 28212. The street is very short, and the cemetery is visible from the street.

Daniel-Allen Cemetery

This cemetery had 10 graves but only two with readable stones. It was to be relocated from the property of the J. A. Jones Construction Co. The County Commissioners asked that the graves be moved to the Pineville Cemetery. The information on the stones was about Henry W. Daniel of GA who gave his life for his beloved Southland 6-9-1864 and Annie Thrower, wife of H. W. Allen, who died in 1873. This was formerly near the old pump station and between U. S. 21 S. and the Southern Railway tracks. It was about 2 miles from the Starmount subdivision.

 

Galilee Church Cemetery

This cemetery has at least 17 additional stones or bricks that are unnamed or broken beyond recognition. It is very spread out and difficult to determine if there are other unmarked graves. One grave was also recently dug and has no headstone yet.  This cemetery is at the southeast side of the intersection of Nations Ford Road and the 5500 block of Radford Avenue.

 

Documentation

(1) This cemetery was abstacted by Jane Johnson in May 2005.

Hopewell Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

This is one of the oldest churches in the county and was organized in 1762. This list of cemetery records is provided by the church and is complete through 1996. The cemetery is in front and to the side of the church and is visible from the road.

 

Documentation

(1) Sommerville, Charles William. The History of Hopewell Presbyterian Church for 175 Years From the Assigned Date of Its Organization, 1762, Charlotte: Hopewell Presbyterian Church, 1939.

Davidson College Cemetery

This is owned by Davidson College and started in 1838. Most people buried before 1880 had connections with the college or were related to someone associated with the college.  This is visible from west side of Main St. and is north of Davidson College.

 

Documentation

(1) A Census of the Davidson College Cemetery, compiled by Malcolm Lester, Davidson, North Carolina, 1996 

(2) A complete abstract is in Mecklenburg County, NC, Cemeteries, Vol. 1, North Mecklenburg, compiled by Pinny and Mel Cook, 2002.

Hunter's Chapel United Methodist Church and Cemetery

This church and cemetery had to be moved due to the building of Lake Norman. At that time, it was known as the Hunter Chapel M. E. Zion Church. The cemetery is to the side of the cemetery and is visible from the street.

 

Documentation

(1) James W. Howard survey for the Mecklenburg Genealogy Society in May, 1983

(2) Relocation of Various Cemetery from Area Inundated by the Waters of Lake Norman, by Duke Power Co.

Davidson Family Cemetery

 See also Rural Hill Cemetery in this database. It is located on the south side of Neck Rd. just west of the old Davidson home. It is visible from the road and has a stone wall surrounding the cemetery.

 

Documentation

(1) A complete abstract is in Mecklenburg County, NC, Cemeteries, Vol. 1, North Mecklenburg, compiled by Pinny and Mel Cook, 2002.