This is a list of cemeteries that need our attention! Please volunteer to help in the clean up and preservation efforts!
Anders, off Oak Grove and Ward roads
Ballard Family
Brittain Family
Bryson Cemetery
Capps Family Cemetery
Collins Cemetery on Sugarloaf
Corn Family Cemetery
Edney Cemetery
Featherstone Slave Cemetery
Fletcher Family, city of Fletcher
Follies area
Fortune Cemetery II
Fortune-Kuykendall Family
Gilbert-Justus Family
Guest Family
Hammett Family
Hill at Reedy Patch
Jeremiah Osborne
John Allen Slave Cemetery
Little Pisgah East No. 1, No. 2
Livingston Family
Maxwell Family
Redden Family
Revis
Roper
Schaffer
Seagle Slave Cemetery
Sentell, Big Willow
Sentell Family, Jeter Mountain
Shipman-Rice Family
Smith Family (off Brown Road and Melissa Way)
Summers-Liverett
Townsend
Unidentified cemetery, possibly a slave cemetery
Walter Williams Family
Ward Family
Williamson-Patton Family
Brown's Chapel or Garren Family
Hogney Church
Old French Broad Baptist
Many of the cemeteries listed in the book Henderson County North Carolina Cemeteries have not been visited since the original cemetery survey. Others may be endangered or destroyed. If there is more than one cemetery by the same name, a general location is noted above. For locations and more information on the cemeteries, refer to the book.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans is conducting cemetery surveys to identify the grave sites of men who fought in the Civil War. The group is attempting to map the graves of both Union and Confederate soldiers.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy also are recognizing the families of the soldiers.
United States and Confederate grave markers are still available for free from the state and national governments.
If anyone knows of any sites or would like more information about the grave markers, call or email Norman Miller at 698-5587, days, and 674-6996, evenings; Joe Young at 692-7385 or 777-3797; Curtiss Poteat at 891-7074; or Barry Hollingsworth at 692-3680.
