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
K Ned Beasley Send your questions (and thanks) directly to Ned
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