Greenleaf Cemetery

Wayne County North Carolina

Contributed by K Ned Beasley October 2011


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

Location: Take dirt road across from 701 11th St. Follow it to the woods, make slight right and cemetery is in the woods. Totally grown over by forest and nature. It is not visible from 11th street, nor a private gravel road. This was an old Black Cemetery and that he had not seen anyone around it or take care of it. It is located within a forest and is being over grown with trees, ivy and poison ivy. It is possible to follow some deer paths to some of the graves, but some are just not reachable.

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    GPS Coordinates:
    35.40500 N
    77.96970 W

    The epitaphs are as follows:



    Mary Jane Artis Died Jun 20 1914 Age 57 Double Stone Barnes NOI Leonard Benton Died Feb 2 1920 Age 36 yrs Spicy A Bryant 1847 Nov 12 1940 Suddie Chatman Oct 2 1894 Jul 18 1923 Mary Clark Died Sep 30 1934 Age 65 years Wylie Clark Nov 26 1937 Age 49 yrs CW Cox Oct 20 1877 Nov 4 1936 Harriet Hadley 1874 Oct 26 1930 Moses Hadley Aug 6 1896 Jun 5 1918 WH Hagans Feb 15 1872 Sep 5 1918 Double Stone Smith Calvin Dec 15 1881 Nov 23 1951 Mary A Dec 24 1853 Aug 4 1960 Unmarked Grave Unmarked Grave J B B NOI Howard Oct 1 1912? Mar 28 1935 stone full of moss hard to read Unreadable Oct 1900 Mar 5 ???? MM NOI MM NOI Unreadable 1833 Nov 3 1913 Betsey Wa???? Died Nov 17 1919 Age 70 yrs Winnie Wife of Dave ???? Died Nov 9 19?? Stone in 3 pieces Unreadable Edgar S son of CR & S Whitfield Aug 26 1888 Nar 22 1911 Double Stone Wiggs Rev Louis D Dec 10 1889 Oct 10 1958 Mrs Penny Isler Aug 20 1899 Mar 13 1938 Willie Williams Died Jan 20 1922 Age 33 yrs Emma Wooten Wife of Davis Alston Oct 10 1887 May 1 1925 Others buried here: William Henry Benton Son of Leonard & Maggie Clark Benton Mar 7 1914 Apr 15 1914 James Joseph Benton Husband of Magarieta Jun 15 1915 Jan 26 1972 Betty Clark Wife of Wylie Clark Died May 21 1927 Age 41 Eli Clark Husband of Annie Clark Died Fen 5 1920 Age 80 yrs John Henry Clark Husband of Mary Clark Died Oct 30 1932 Age 68 Judge Clark Died Mar 5 1914 Age 60 William Clark Husband of Hattie Clark May 15 1921 Aug 19 1964 Age 43

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