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154    CASTLE FAMILY

Location - Oak Grove Township beside a drive leading to Baldwin's Pond (or Lake) north of Service Road and south of I-85.

Coordinates: 36d 02m 11.0s N; 78d 49m 35.0s W Click here for Online Maps

This abandoned cemetery has at least 13 marked graves dating from 1888 to 1928. Canvassed by Lucille Glenn (1985).

Notes from a survey in about 1995: On January 13, 1807, John Hardcastle married Temperance Powell. William Poole was bondsman. They established their home in the northwestern division of Wake County (now Durham County), very near the Orange County line. They began a family cemetery on a hilltop about one-fourth of a mile from the home. Children born to them were: William (1810), Mary "Polly" (1812), Nancy (1816), Elizabeth (1819), Albert (1822), John (1824) and Marth (1826).
It isn't known how many of the above are buried here due to lack of stones (only fieldstones to many graves). Only one stone remains, Eula Harriett Williford. Much of the information has been taken from death certificates and from several elderly people who knew a lot of these people. Vandals have all but destroyed this cemetery.

1. Castle, Caroline Rigsbee   (b. Oct 1904 - d. 6 Dec 1928)
daughter of William and Fannie Belle Rigsbee Castle. unmarried.
2. Castle, Elizabeth   (b. 1826 - d. )
daughter of John and Temperance Powell Castle. unmarried.
3. Castle, Fannie Belle Rigsbee   (b. 1868 - d. 19 Apr 1924)
Wife of William "Bill" Castle. daughter of John W. and Caroline Woods Rigsbee.
4. Castle, Mary   (b. 1812 - d. )
daughter of John and Temperance Powell Castle. unmarried. made will in 1892.
5. Castle, Mose   (b. 20 Apr 1915 - d. 23 Mar 1932)
son of Sudie Castle
6. Castle, Nancy   (b. 1816 - d. )
daughter of John and Temperance Powell Castle. unmarried. living in 1900.
7. Castle, Sudie (Sadie)   (b. 1898 - d. )
daughter of William and Fannie Belle Rigsbee Castle. living in 1910.
8. Castle, William "Bill"   (b. 1857 - d. )
husband of Fannie Belle Rigsbee Castle. living in 1910.
9. Castle, Zora   (b. 1892 - d. )
daughter of William and Fannie Belle Rigsbee Castle. unmarried. living in 1915.
10. Glenn, Rebecca Ann Rigsbee   (b. abt 1866 - d. 15 Jan 1888)
Wife of Ruffin Glenn. daughter of John W. and N. Cardine Woods Rigsbee.
11. Rigsbee, Merritt   (b. - d. )
son of John W. and Caroline Woods Rigsbee. died about 8 years of age.
12. Roycroft, Mary Castle   (b. 1899 - d. 16 Nov 1928)
Wife of Hubert Roycroft. daughter of William and Fannie Belle Rigsbee Castle.
13. Weaver, Ethel Bertha Castle   (b. 1903 - d. 1932)
Wife of Charlie Weaver. daughter of William and Fannie Belle Rigsbee Castle
14. Williford, Eula Harriet Castle   (b. 1891 - d. 8 May 1927)
1st Wife of Samuel Williford. daughter of William and Fannie Belle Rigsbee Castle