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027    BETTS FAMILY

Location - From Fuquay Varina, go North on NC 55. Turn left on Wade-Nash Road (SR 1113) and go West 1.3 miles to Sand Dune Way (SR 5700) on the right. Turn right onto Sand Dune Way. The Betts Cemetery is .1 mile on the left and is on private property.

Coordinates: 35d 37m 08.0s N; 78d 50m 04.0s W Click here for Online Maps

Surveyed by Robert M. Butler in December 2002.

There are only four marked graves. However, Mrs. Georgia Taylor Betts the owner of the property and widow of Earnest A Betts, had recorded the other burials and some of the birth and death dates in her family Bible. This is an African-American cemetery.

1. Betts, Earnest A.   (b. 13 Aug 1911 - d. 3 Jun 1977)
Husband of Georgia Taylor Betts
2. Betts, Ernest Layton   (b. 16 Oct 1895 - d. )
[no stone] no death date
3. Betts, James B.   (b. 18 Jan 1923 - d. 20 Jan 1987)
4. Betts, Mittie   (b. - d. 30 Mar 1924)
[no stone]
5. Betts, W.J.   (b. - d. 6 Jun 1944)
[no stone] "Uncle Doon"
6. Graham, Charles Sylvester   (b. 25 Jul 1956 - d. 11 Apr 1992)
7. Holland, Otis Thomas, Jr.   (b. 24 Feb 1948 - d. 22 Jan 1999)
U S Army
8. Jones, Armelia Betts   (b. Dec 24, 1903 - d. 6 Jul 1954)
[no stone] Wife of Sylvester Jones
9. Jones, Sylvester   (b. - d. )
[no stone] No Dates. Husband of Armelia Betts Jones