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Cemeteries

Center Grove HL

Comprehensive Genealogical Services, June M. White, verifiers The owner in 2002 was Cedar Grove AME Zion Church.

Big Spring United Methodist Church and Cemetery

The church was organized in 1866. Some family names from the Charles cemetery survey in 1983 are Walker, Woodard and Brown. The church and cemetery are visible from Old Dowd Rd.

  1. William J. Charles survey for the Mecklenburg Genealogy Society on 9-11-1983 
  2. Burial records and information was provided by Nancy Spaine and Murphy Whisnant in 2003.

 

Centre Presbyterian Church & Cemetery

This church is no longer in Mecklenburg Co. and has been included because the members first met two miles north of Davidson College in the Osbornes Meeting House and organized in 1765. The name was chosen because of its relation to other settlements. The original building was destroyed by fire in 1775 and Centre was rebuilt in its present location.

Asbury United Methodist Church

  

Mr. Charles wrote that it was originally known as Bethesda Methodist in 1814, near its present site. For information about the older cemetery, see Bethesda Methodist Church Cemetery.

Wm. J. Charles survey for the Mecklenburg Genealogy Society on 7-19-1983

The cemetery is located behind the church.

Centre Presbyterian Church & Cemetery

This church is no longer in Mecklenburg Co. and has been included because the members first met 2 miles north of Davidson College in the Osbornes Meeting House and organized in 1765. The name was chosen because of its relation to other settlements. The original building was destroyed by fire in 1775 and Centre was rebuilt in its present location.

Chapel Hill Missionary Baptist Church

The church was rebuilt in 1920 and 1985. Some surnames are Rush, Trapp, Nealy, Adams, Caldwell, Gibson and Connor. This is not a complete list of burial records. The cemetery is on the side of the church and is visible from the road.

 

Documentation

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