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Hopkins Family Cemetery

Oak City, Martin County, North Carolina, USA – *No GPS coordinates

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The Hopkins Family Cemetery is located near Oak City in Martin Co., N. C. When driving from Hobgood, N. C. toward Oak City on Highway #125, you will turn right on Rural Road #1329 (Mayo's Farm Rd). Driving on Mayo's Farm Road past Edmondson Rd. on the left and Smith Rd. on the right. After about three miles you will turn left off Mayo's Farm Rd. on an unpaved farm access lane. Follow the lane until just past a bridge over a large ditch. There was a small cemetery on the left which I was told belonged to a black family. You will park there and walk past that cemetery as if walking back toward Highway #125 for about 50-75? yards to the Hopkins Cemetery. This land belonged to the Ayers family at the time I last saw it. The cemetery had been damaged when a large drainage ditch had been dug, which knocked over trees and markers. It is not known exactly how old the cemetery is, or how many people were buried there in unmarked graves.

This land in Martin Co. was given by Thomas Drew of Halifax Co. in his will on 18 May 1806 to Hezekiah Hopkins. Other heirs were sons Joshua and Solomon Drew, daughters Anne Bryan and Mary Bryan, Sarah Cain's grandson James Cain (son of William Cain). Charles King and Michajah Hobgood were appointed executors of the will. Drew Braswell and Thomas Johnes were witnesses of the will. Later Hezekiah Hopkins deeded the land to Samuel Mitchell. On Mar. 24, 1855 the land that Samuel Mitchell dec'd had deeded to the Hopkins family was divided between John Hopkins, William Hopkins, Willis Weathersbee, and the heirs of Drew Hopkins (Willis Weathersbee, William Hopkins, John Hopkins, Sally Curry and her husband, James Curry, and Polly the deceased wife of Asa Medford).

John Lynch



The Hopkins Family Cemetery is located near Oak City in Martin Co., N. C. When driving from Hobgood, N. C. toward Oak City on Highway #125, you will turn right on Rural Road #1329 (Mayo's Farm Rd). Driving on Mayo's Farm Road past Edmondson Rd. on the left and Smith Rd. on the right. After about three miles you will turn left off Mayo's Farm Rd. on an unpaved farm access lane. Follow the lane until just past a bridge over a large ditch. There was a small cemetery on the left which I was told belonged to a black family. You will park there and walk past that cemetery as if walking back toward Highway #125 for about 50-75? yards to the Hopkins Cemetery. This land belonged to the Ayers family at the time I last saw it. The cemetery had been damaged when a large drainage ditch had been dug, which knocked over trees and markers. It is not known exactly how old the cemetery is, or how many people were buried there in unmarked graves.

This land in Martin Co. was given by Thomas Drew of Halifax Co. in his will on 18 May 1806 to Hezekiah Hopkins. Other heirs were sons Joshua and Solomon Drew, daughters Anne Bryan and Mary Bryan, Sarah Cain's grandson James Cain (son of William Cain). Charles King and Michajah Hobgood were appointed executors of the will. Drew Braswell and Thomas Johnes were witnesses of the will. Later Hezekiah Hopkins deeded the land to Samuel Mitchell. On Mar. 24, 1855 the land that Samuel Mitchell dec'd had deeded to the Hopkins family was divided between John Hopkins, William Hopkins, Willis Weathersbee, and the heirs of Drew Hopkins (Willis Weathersbee, William Hopkins, John Hopkins, Sally Curry and her husband, James Curry, and Polly the deceased wife of Asa Medford).

John Lynch



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