The cemetery is located directly across the road & a railroad track from the church. There are a large number of very, very old tombstones in this cemetery & judging from the numbers that are broken or lying on the ground, it appears to have been vandalized.

The cemetery is in two sections, this one allows only flat markers,

New Hope Baptist Church
Post Office Box 116, Earl, NC
28038-0116
Phone #704-487-6726

From Shelby, NC take NC 226 south. It will merge with NC 180 a couple miles out of Shelby. Remain on NC 180 even after NC 226 forks off to the left. Go about a mile and NC 198 will fork off to the left and head toward Blacksburg, SC. The cemetery is about a mile down NC 198 across the railroad tracks. Church is on right, cemetery across the road on left.