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571    SMITH, WILLIAM [P35.2]

Location - Bear Creek Township. 0.36 miles south of NC 902; 0.21 miles west of Tom Hancock Road

Coordinates: 35d 34m 35.0s N; 79d 26m 10.0s W Click here for Online Maps

Owner: Barry Thomas and Jessica Lee Brown.
Legal Description: Parcel 74758 Plat 98-399; deed 1383/836; plat 2007-192; 1047/1074; 780/1090; 388/847 division; 1899 DV/641 division of Wm F Smith; AO/8 1848 Aaron Tyson to Wm F Smith.
Topo Quadrant: Bear Creek P.
Family owned: Yes.
Maintained and in use: Yes.
Number of graves: 10.
Cemetery size: 17' x 30'.
White: Yes.
Restricted access: Yes. Private property
Well maintained: Yes.
Enclosed: Yes.
Enclosed conditions: Good.
Markers: Yes.
Markers with inscriptions: Yes.
Number of readable markers: 7.
Last burial: 1918.
First burial: c. 1880.

Miscellaneous information: Mr. Joe Smith has fenced the site, and says the landowner plans to put cows in that field. Mr. Smith cut wheat and corn in this field as a child in 1950s. He added the family marker to record the names of those with unmarked stones in 2003. Data on birth and death dates, and relationship information is from The William F. Smith Family Tree, by William and Edna Moore, 2001.
Last canvassed by: J&B Wiggins, Joe D Smith. Date: 5 Nov 2009. Photographs by Beverly Wiggins.
Another view of the cemetery. Smith Family marker.

1. Brewer, Bettie Elizabeth [Smith]   (b. 1860 - d. 1912)
[daughter of William F. Smith and Mary Polly Brewer Smith wife of William Brewer]. fs: Mother dove design on hs. Gone but not forgotten Age 52 years. good. Original stone is marble. Elizabeth is also listed on Smith family stone erected in 2003. Relationship info from The William F. Smith Family Tree, by William and Edna Moore, 2001.
2. Smith, Cleveland   (b. 18 May 1906 - d. Jun 1907)
[son of George G. Smith and Martha Melinda Scott Smith]. excellent. Original stone is fieldstone. Family stone erected in 2003. Dates and relationship info from The William F. Smith Family Tree, by William and Edna Moore, 2001.
3. Smith, George G.   (b. c. 1856 - d. 1 Dec 1918)
[son of William F. Smith and Mary Polly Brewer Smith husband of Martha Melinda Scott]. excellent. Original stone is fieldstone. Family stone erected in 2003. Dates and relationship info from The William F. Smith Family Tree, by William and Edna Moore, 2001.
4. Smith, Joseph   (b. c. 1868 - d. c. 1870-1880)
[son of William F. Smith and Mary Polly Brewer Smith]. excellent. Original stone is fieldstone. Family stone erected in 2003. Dates and relationship info from The William F. Smith Family Tree, by William and Edna Moore, 2001.
5. Smith, Josiah   (b. c. Jan 1884 - d. c. 1905)
[son of William W. Smith and Mollie Bradshaw Smith]. excellent. Original stone is fieldstone. Family stone erected in 2003. Dates and relationship info from The William F. Smith Family Tree, by William and Edna Moore, 2001.
6. Smith, Mary Polly Brewer   (b. c.1831 - d. Aft 1904)
[wife of William F. Smith]. excellent. Original stone is fieldstone. Family stone erected in 2003. Dates and relationship info from The William F. Smith Family Tree, by William and Edna Moore, 2001.
7. Smith, William F.   (b. c.1819 - d. c.1900)
[husband of Mary Polly Brewer Smith]. excellent. Original stone is fieldstone. Family stone erected in 2003. Dates and relationship info from The William F. Smith Family Tree, by William and Edna Moore, 2001..