Sheephead Cemetery
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Sheephead Cemetery

New Salem, Union County, North Carolina, USA

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    Coordinates: 35.14312, -80.34416
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Sheephead Cemetery is thought to have been the orginal cemetery for Pleasant Hill Baptist Church. The first worship service for the church was held in a brush arbor in the Emmaline Nance section of the community, now part of Terry Smith's land. The sheep roamed the countryside in those days, so the sheep began to use the arbor for a fold at night. So the arbor began being called Sheep Hill. The community buried their deceased near the arbor, until 1887 when a church was built on the present church lot and located southwest of the church the church created the present cemetery. The graves in the old cemetery at Sheep Hill were soon forgotten and described as the graveyard where the sheep heads (skulls) were, thus the name Sheephead Cemetery chosen for this graveyard. The graves were only marked with fieldstones and most of the fieldstones are long gone with trees growing through the old graves. The few graves still marked are all photographed.

The cemetery is located in a pasture behind the log cabin home of Terry Smith on Kennedy Ford Road. His permission would need to be obtained before viewing the cemetery.



Old Kennedy Ford Road south of the road behind Terry Smith's log home) take a right on Old Kennedy Ford Road. Terry Smith's property is on the right before you get to Pleasant Hill Cemetery (Salem Cem), it is a log cabin on the right with a driveway that curves to the left.



Sheephead Cemetery is thought to have been the orginal cemetery for Pleasant Hill Baptist Church. The first worship service for the church was held in a brush arbor in the Emmaline Nance section of the community, now part of Terry Smith's land. The sheep roamed the countryside in those days, so the sheep began to use the arbor for a fold at night. So the arbor began being called Sheep Hill. The community buried their deceased near the arbor, until 1887 when a church was built on the present church lot and located southwest of the church the church created the present cemetery. The graves in the old cemetery at Sheep Hill were soon forgotten and described as the graveyard where the sheep heads (skulls) were, thus the name Sheephead Cemetery chosen for this graveyard. The graves were only marked with fieldstones and most of the fieldstones are long gone with trees growing through the old graves. The few graves still marked are all photographed.

The cemetery is located in a pasture behind the log cabin home of Terry Smith on Kennedy Ford Road. His permission would need to be obtained before viewing the cemetery.



Old Kennedy Ford Road south of the road behind Terry Smith's log home) take a right on Old Kennedy Ford Road. Terry Smith's property is on the right before you get to Pleasant Hill Cemetery (Salem Cem), it is a log cabin on the right with a driveway that curves to the left.



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