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COX, WICKER, GILMORE, HAWLEY/BROOKS, GASTER CEMETERIES

 Surveyed by: John Altenburger - Johnalt@juno.com


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Index to Cemeteries
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GILMORE Cemetery

Annie K. w/o J. B. Gilmore				died June 27, 1917
Elizabeth, w/o J. H. Gilmore				died Aug. 18, 1921
Gilmore, John B.					died Nov. 14, 1960
Gilmore, Mary Jane					died Sept. 23, 1941
Gilmore, Sara C.					died Apr. 27, 1932
Gilmore, Walter McLennan				died Dec. 5, 1920
Gilmore, William J.					died June 12, 1961
Son of (no name) J. B. & A. K. Gilmore			died Oct. 30, 1912
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WICKER Cemetery

Hattie H. w/o Dock D. Wicker				died  1950
Wicker, Carson						died Feb. 27, ????
Wicker, Charles						died Sep. 25, 1911	
Wicker, Dock D.						died 1950
Wicker, Houle						died Feb 5, 1916
Wicker, Joe B.						died Apr. 6, 1939
Wicker, Rubie Lillie					died Oct. 26, 1910
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HAWLEY/BROOKS Plot

Hawley, William						died June 5, 1859
Margaret, w/o William Hawley				died Oct. 19, 1867
Brooks, Clarence L. s/o R. W. & C. A. Brooks		died Nov. 2, 1876
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GASTER et al Cemetery (readable & carved headstones only)

_______, w/o John G. Hunter				died Sep. 19, 1912
Addie, w/o J. D. Hunter					died 1927
Clark, D. V. 						died May 10, 1930
Elizabeth, w/o Sanford Brannon				died Aug 20, 1900
Famey, w/o John Gaster					died Aug. 18, 1853
Fannie E. w/o D. V. Clark				died May 26, 1926
Gaster Jemima Jane					died Feb 10, 1924
Gaster, A. J. 						died Dec. 16, 1855
Gaster, Christopher Columbus s/o John M. & M. M. Gaster died Jan. 21, 1887
Gaster, David						died Oct. 28, 1882
Gaster, Gertrude d/o J. F. & Mattie Gaster		died Dec. 6, 1905
Gaster, Jacob						died Dec. 16, 1855
Gaster, Jemima						died ????
Gaster, John M.						died Jan 1, 1912
Gaster, Lizzie Chrisman d/o D. S. & Lottie Gaster	died Dec. 28, 1900
Gaster, Margaret Elizabeth				died Feb. 11, 1924
Gaster, Mary Dalrymple					died Feb. 7, 1926
Gilmore, Mary Lessie d/o D. D. & B. M. Gilmore		died Jan. 26, 1923
Hunter, Jno 						died Nov. 22, 1888
Hunter, John D.						died Sept. 11, 1917
Hunter, Sophire Hill dau of J. G. & A. S. Hunter	died Feb. 20, 1914
India G. w/o John M. F. Gaster				died Jan. 18, 1898
Infant d/o D. V. & E. F. Clark				died Sept. 18, 1888
Mary E. w/o ?						died June 21, 1889
Mary E. w/o J. McGilmore				died June 4, 1927
Mary G. w/o David McNeill				died Jan. 2, 1932
Mary M. w/o John M. Gaster				died Sept. 29, 1899
McGilmore, J						died Oct. 13, 1938
McNeill, David						died ????
Mitchell, B. C.						died May 16, 1910
Williams, Henry B.					died Apr. 28, 1906
Williams, James H.					died 1919
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COX Cemetery aka DODD COX Grave Yard
(added 12/03/01)

_______, Mattie E. H. w/o F. M. P.  McLeod	died Sept. 19, 1882
Cox, A. H.					died Dec, 17, 1902
Cox, D. M.					died Oct. 2, 1904
Cox, Dr. John Lewis				died 1913
Cox, John M.					died Nov. 7, 1878
Cox, Minnie Blanche				died Nov. 2, 1877
Cox, W. J.					died Sept. 21, 1906
Hackney Cox, Maggie d/o J.J. & Susannah Hackney	died Mar. 14, 1873
McLaughlin Cox, “Amy”, w/o Dr. John Lewis Cox	died 1923


JWA 12/03/01 file-IndexToCemeteries.doc
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Telephone Conversations From the News Article

12/29/02

T/W Marvin Gaster (711 Cedar Lane, 27332) and sent him an index, the Gaster Cemetery Layout, and Row G sheet of tombstones.

12/29/02
T/W Anne Louise Pomerantz. She has much info on local families. She is 84, lives at 526 Forest Drive, and referred to a book that should be in the Library. It was published in 1950, the title is Brooks and Kindred, and the author is Ida Brooks Kellam. If the book should be missing from the library, she asked me to come to her house and pick it up. She quoted from her book that regarding the Hawley plot, the 1st wife of William Hawley was Miss McFarland and all the children were hers. The stone at the plot shows Margaret as William Hawley’s wife and Margaret is the 2nd wife and there were no children.

12/29/02
T/W both Bill Arnold and Joyce Arnold (260 Lakeview). They built the log cabin where Alan Kyles lives in 1958. Bill indicates there are stories of other burials at the Hawley plot and that one may been a worker who was killed on the job of building hwy 87 in 1959. It seems to him there were other graves at that plot beside just the 3 shown from tombstone information. There may have be black burials in addition to the 3 on the stones. The large oak tree just south of the water tower was in the back or side yard of the Hawley home and the home burned in 1958. The Gilmore cemetery had a burial in it in 1967 or 1968 even though the most recent tombstone shows a burial in 1961. To find the Gilmore person buried most recently either the Miller-Bolles or the Rogers-Pickard funeral homes may have records, as they were the only ones around then. There are two more family plots close to Trace but across the hwy 87. West of Sandy Williams pre-civil war house on hwy 87 & fenced in a farm field is a cemetery of 5-6 graves with some brownstone tombstones 4’ high. The Morris family graves are there. You’d need permission to visit those. Also, across from the Trace entrance west of the old railroad trestle, south of the Upper Little River, and north of Frank Wicker is a plot.

12/30/02
T/W Marie Morris 73 who lives in town but is at the Baptist Church on Swann Station 4 days a week. She grew up on Cox-Maddox Road and remembers Dock and Francis Wicker coming to town in a wagon selling vegetables. She grew up on Cox-Maddox close to Cox Mill (where there’s a bend in the road and the new houses are) and there used to be a school house where her Daddy went to school but no longer exists. Skip Kelly lives on a dirt road south off of Cox-Maddox Road and he knows a lot about the local history as well as where the Morris Cemetery or the Wicker Cemetery is located. Marvin Johnson on hwy 87 also is a local person with knowledge of the Morris Cemetery that is closeby there. An additional person is John Sharp, 499-6881, who lives on Sharp Road and he will be able to tell you where the cemetery is that is across from the entrance to Carolina Trace.

12/30/02
David R. Williams 499-4422 who lives in Olivia, PO Box 483 is a life long native and is aware of several cemeteries in addition to the 5 at Trace. He calls them the James Cemetery in back of Sam Mauldin’s mother’s house, the Walker Graveyard across from the Trace entrance, and the Edwards or Bright.McNeill graveyard west of the bend on Frank Wicker. He also heard rumors that a Trace home builder took a tombstone from the Hawley plot for use as a door stepping stone. That was never confirmed. David has kin buried in several of the graveyards at Trace. I have sent him the index and 5 CAD drawings.

View Image of Morris Walker Cemetery