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525 YANKEE [S38.2]
Location - Cape Fear Township. South of SR 1924, Moncure--Flatwood Road, 0.35 mile east of SR 1916, Corinth Road. Address is 163 Moncure Flatwood Rd.
Coordinates: 35d 34m 55.0s N; 79d 01m 18.0s W Click here for Online Maps
In 1984 Martha Harrington reported to the North Carolina Cemetery Survey that Annie Utley was told as a child that an unplowed area was the site of Yankee graves. The story is reported in Kathy Brooks Jones, Buffalo Creek Chronicles, Vol. I. The site was visited on 12 Oct 2019 by Boe Goodwin, who provided a photograph. He described the spot as raised and unlike the rest of the forest in that area.
Owner: Douglas E. Utley; previously Annie Utley.
Legal Description: Parcel 5179. Deed 943/730. Plat 98-74. The Utley cemetery, S38.1, is shown on the plat, but the Yankee cemetery, S38.2, is not shown.
Topo Quadrant: Moncure.
Privately owned: Yes.
Abandoned: Yes.
Number of graves: 5.
Unrestricted access: No. Private property.
Not identified: Yes.
Not identified explanation: Annie Utley, owner of the land, was told this as a little girl..
Enclosed: No.
Markers: No.
Listed: Yes.
Listed explanation: Kathy Brooks Jones, "Buffalo Creek Chronicles," Vol. I. 1984, p. 143.
Significant events: Annie Utley, previous owner, was told by her father (who owned the place before her), that there were Yankee graves in this place and that the Yankees placed guards at the graves when they were first buried. The graveyard has never been marked or plowed since..
Last canvassed by: Martha Harrington. Date: Feb 1984; Boe Goodwin, Oct 2019.
Web page updated 8 June 2021
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