Map of burial grounds before relocation.

WPA SURVEY LISTING OF "McCLURE CEMETERY PRIVATE" IN 1939

In 1939, the State of North Carolina did a survey for all of the cemetery headstones in Cabarrus County. This survey was sponsored with WPA funds during the Great Depression, when a nationwide survey of many of the cemeteries in America was undertaken.

The survey showed that only 13 graves could be identified in the entire cemetery. By August 1997, all of the 13 graves listed on this sheet of paper from 1939 for the "McClure Cemetery Private", plus one additional grave for an infant, were moved to the new "McClure Cemetery" in Concord, Cabarrus County, NC. USA.

Although Adam Meek's headstone inscription was transcribed on the 1939 WPA survey, his headstone now appears to be missing. His headstone is not at the new McClure Cemetery, dedicated in 1979, although his grave does appear to have been relocated there.

The image above of the above 1939 WPA Survey can be found on page 29 of 137 of the PDF file at this link:

http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15012coll1/id/37044/rec/1

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Summary of the Meek family headstones, as they were recorded during the 1939 survey:

NAME --- DATE OF DEATH --- REMARKS

Meek, Adam --- Jan. 25, 1822 --- Age 93 yrs

Meek, Elizabeth --- Nov. 20, 1805 --- Age 79 yrs

Meek, Samuel --- Sept. 26, 1802 --- Age 35 yrs

This WPA survey report from 1939 shows that his wife named Elizabeth (Miller) Meek died in 1805. However now that her headstone has been cleaned off, and a high resolution photo of it has been taken, the correct date can clearly be read as 1806.

If he died at age 93, then Adam Meek (1729-1822) would have lived to have been one of the oldest men of his generation. In the colonial era, not even Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) of PA made it past the age of 84. Adam Meek's own father-in-law named Isaac Robert Miller (1690-1775), appears to have lived one year longer than Benjamin Franklin, passing on at the age of 85.

Adam Meek must have had remarkably good health for someone who was born in 1729, and who lived through the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Perhaps all those years he spent walking the NC woods as a land surveyor, did him some good.

"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
Matthew 5:5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_5:5

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