Elisha Applewhite Cemetery

Wayne County North Carolina

Surveyed by Stacey Jones
October 2011


The following is a complete listing of the tombstones in the Elisha Applewhite Cemetery in Wayne County, NC.

Location: about 100 yards north of Nahunta Road, just west of Highway 795, between Pikeville and Goldsboro.

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    GPS Coordinates:
    35.47050 N
    77.98749 W

    The epitaphs are as follows:

    

Elisha Applewhite
Died
Aug 13 1865
Aged about 35 years

G.E.L.
son of 
Elisha & Matilda Applewhite
Jun 15 1865
Oct 18 1882

Thomas
son of 
Elisha & Matilda Applewhite
Jun 23 1854
Aug 1872

Henry
son of 
Elisha & Matilda Applewhite
Jul 25 1853
Aug 1874

Jesse 
son of 
Elisha & Matilda Applewhite
Jul 27 1859
Aug 1862

Mary
daughter of 
Elisha & Matilda Applewhite
Jul 10 1862
Aug 1869

Further notes: 
Frank Thompson wrote: 
I think this Elisha Applewhite may very well have 
been the son of Robert Applewhite (b. about 1809 
and died at the hands of Braswell Thomas, a free 
Negro in Johnston Co., NC Feb 7, 1844). Think we 
had an earlier conversation about him. If so, this 
family seems prone to a violent end. Robert was the 
son of Elisha, who was the son of John Applewhite 
of Wayne County. I have his name as Elisha Daniel 
Applewhite (though tombstone omits the Daniel) 
b 1830 and died Aug 13 1865. He was married to Sarah 
Matilda Vail, dau of Benners Vail and Susan Alford. 
They had 4 children: Henry, Thomas, Jesse and George 
E.L. Applewhite. Elisha Daniel Applewhite's only 
brother was Bartley Deans Applewhite who married Sara 
Matilda's sister Mary Ann Vail. Most of this Bartley 
Deans Applewhite family ended up in Bladen Co. and 
the Wilmington, NC area.


    

    

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