Stanly News and Press Sunday, September 14, 2003 GRAVES RELOCATED Huneycutt Markers Moved Because of Highway Widening Some of the families of the late John Asbury Huneycutt and Sylvia (Silvy) Huneycutt were on hand recently to witness the relocation of their ancestors' graves. The graves had to be moved because of the widening of Highway 24/27 near Liberty Hill Church. John and Sylvia Huneycutt were buried in the yard of Cromer and Polly Burris when they died in the late 1870s. The Huneycutts had raised a large family in this area, nine boys and three girls. Most of the family remained in western Stanly and even today a very large number of the descendants still reside within a few miles of the homeplace. At one time, John purchased 100 acres between Red Cross and Stoney Run Creek. Records show that he sold for $1 the land for the original Liberty Hill Primitive Baptist Church to be built on. Grave plots were set aside for John and Sylvia to be buried in the cemetery at the church, but until the state required that the graves be moved, they remained in the Burris yard. A fieldstone marker, engraved with the information on John, was the only proof that they were buried there. Information passed down through the generations verified that John and Sylvia were both buried there. John was born May 19, 1803 and died Oct. 11, 1878. The search is ongoing to find the birth and death date of Sylvia. She was still alive at the time of her husband's death. Sylvia was the daughter of Charles Robert (Jan. 25, 1786-April 9, 1864) and Elizabeth Miranda Springer Cagle (Jan. 14, 1789-Sep 11, 1861) and granddaughterof George and Rebecca Cagle. Some of the descendants are having a tombstone erected using the fieldstone embedded into it with the information engraved so furture generations can locate and identify their ancestors. A speciall fund has been set up to pay for the cost of the marker. Any descendant of John and Sylvia Huneycutt who would like to help with a donation may contact Ned Huneycutt, Anabel Speight or Joel Huneycutt at Locust Lumber Company. John and Sylvia's children were : George Washington, William Riley, Charles McKinley, Jack (John) Timothy, Fannie Caroline, Asbury Franklin, Ephriam E., Zebulon "Ebbin" M., Sylvia Symara, Mariah Priscilla, Levi Pressley and Eli Filmore. "Family heritage is so important in our lives. We all want to know where we came from and by preserving this bit of history, we are preserving for our future generations to have the information necessary to keep track of thie family background," a spokesperson for the project said. Nancy Jane, I have an abstract of the will of John Huneycutt, wife Slyvia from Stanly Co. NC if you want it. Isn't this Slyvia Cagle part of your Cagle family? I can also send you the census info on this family and some marriages on them from Stanly Co. NC. The above article was sent to me by Tina Rogers Beller of Mississippi. She thinks that John's mother was a ROGERS. How are you doing? Have you got your blood count down again? Hope you have and feel ok. Have you gotten anything from NewtonCoFamiles lately? I missed a message that went into my junk mail. I think it was from a new cite and I didn't respond within three days, so am not getting anything at all from the list. Don't guess it really matters, since I really don't connect to any line from Newton Co. Let me know if you want the other info on John Huneycutt family. Lina Boyd