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Smart-Hamrick Family Cemetery

Also known as Hamrick Family Cemetery , Old Joseph Smart Family Cemetery

Ellenboro, Rutherford County, North Carolina, USA

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  • Get directions 474 Sunshine Lake Road
    Ellenboro, North Carolina 28040 United States
    Coordinates: 35.32959, -81.78588
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Originally called the "Old Joseph Smart Family Cemetery" in the late 1700s and mid-1800s, and later called the "Hamrick Family Cemetery" as more Hamricks and other family surnames were buried there, such as Blanton and Holifield, and spouse surnames such as Brooks, White, Burns, McDow, McKinney, Owens, Bailey and others, this old pioneer-era graveyard served as the final resting place for 85-100 souls from the late 1790s to 1925. It is a large graveyard that had been neglected and abandoned for nearly 100 years before a trio of modern-day genealogy researchers, writers, and family descendants of Joseph Smart and his daughter, Betsey (Smart) Brooks, rediscovered it, reclaimed it from nature's wrath and restored it in 2016. The graveyard is 135 feet long and 50 feet wide with many headstones, field stones and unmarked graves. It lies between two houses in a grove of trees in rural Ellenboro on the north side of Sunshine Lake /Road, approximately 180 yards east of Beams Mill Road. Among the many graves are those of two CSA soldiers. The genealogists, Dennis C. Martin, Cynthia Y. Whited, and Tonya M. Rogers, have renamed this venerable graveyard the "Old Joseph Smart~Hamrick Family Graveyard" and have written a book about the Smart families, finding and restoring the graveyard, and detailing who is buried in the graveyard."
Originally called the "Old Joseph Smart Family Cemetery" in the late 1700s and mid-1800s, and later called the "Hamrick Family Cemetery" as more Hamricks and other family surnames were buried there, such as Blanton and Holifield, and spouse surnames such as Brooks, White, Burns, McDow, McKinney, Owens, Bailey and others, this old pioneer-era graveyard served as the final resting place for 85-100 souls from the late 1790s to 1925. It is a large graveyard that had been neglected and abandoned for nearly 100 years before a trio of modern-day genealogy researchers, writers, and family descendants of Joseph Smart and his daughter, Betsey (Smart) Brooks, rediscovered it, reclaimed it from nature's wrath and restored it in 2016. The graveyard is 135 feet long and 50 feet wide with many headstones, field stones and unmarked graves. It lies between two houses in a grove of trees in rural Ellenboro on the north side of Sunshine Lake /Road, approximately 180 yards east of Beams Mill Road. Among the many graves are those of two CSA soldiers. The genealogists, Dennis C. Martin, Cynthia Y. Whited, and Tonya M. Rogers, have renamed this venerable graveyard the "Old Joseph Smart~Hamrick Family Graveyard" and have written a book about the Smart families, finding and restoring the graveyard, and detailing who is buried in the graveyard."

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  • Added: 30 May 2019
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2685752