Please, everyone... take a look at this web site to see what happens to abandoned cemeteries in Durham. http://endangereddurham.blogspot.com/2007/12/mcmanhandled-when-your-footers-need-to.html Does anyone know where the burial remains were moved to? I need to update the CemeteryCensus web site for this cemetery. http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/durh/cem060.htm ----- Allen Dew voice: 919-471-3548 or 919-528-0161 cell: 919-423-5300 E-mail: mailto:[email protected] Web Pages: <http://cemeterycensus.com> .

Allen: Your message reminded me of our search a year or so ago for the Carlton family cemetery, that I recall visiting 40 or 50 years ago, when I went on long walks with my kids through the then undeveloped area which is now occupied by Hope Valley Farms. You and I could not locate it at that time. I have more recently followed the same route that I took back then, attempting to locate it. I crossed Third Fork Creek near the end of Hamstead Court, and passed through a heavy thicket of brush and swamp, emerging in a hilly terrain which I clearly recall from my earlier walks. I soon came to the back side of the apartments and homes which are now Hope Valley Farms. There was no cemetery. You will recall that one of the streets in the area near where the cemetery was probably located is named Carlton Crossing. Had the graveyard been moved, and the street name assigned in honor of these historic occupants? I have also located some notes that I jotted down on one of our family walks. The site contained a hand adzed log cabin, which still had articles of furniture and some scraps of clothing, but was absent doors and windows and most of the roof. It was clearly the old Carlton home place. Near the cabin was the graveyard, which contained perhaps 10 or 12 marked sites. Some had headstones, and some did not. I was struck that several members of the family had died within days of each other, and I wondered if they had been victims of some epidemic. Typhoid fever was a possibility, as was smallpox. My notes contained the names from the graves with headstones. These are: Henry T. Carlton, born July 15, 1811, died January 27, 1900 Millie B. Carlton, born February 18, 1818, died February 1, 1900 Carolyn Hurst, born May 5, 1841, died February 3, 1900 Martha F., wife of H.O. Harward, born July 15, 1838, died January 5, 1909. Note that three of these four died within a week in Jan./Feb. 1900. I later talked with a person who had lived in the area a long time (I did not record her name) and she told me that Henry T. Carlton was the son of an original settler on the property named Daniel Carlton. Henry married Amelia Trice, and they had four daughters (among other children) who married farmers in the immediate area, named Harward, Hurst, Shepherd, and Pope. Thus the headstones are those of Henry, Millie (Amelia), and two of their daughters. Daniel and his wife may have also been buried there. The purpose of this rambling message is to underscore the point of Allen's message, and to also alert descendents of the Carlton Family that their family cemetery may no longer be in existence. Perhaps the descendents will find the above information of value. Harvey Estes. Allen Dew wrote: > Please, everyone... take a look at this web site to see what happens > to abandoned cemeteries in Durham. > > http://endangereddurham.blogspot.com/2007/12/mcmanhandled-when-your-footers-need-to.html > > Does anyone know where the burial remains were moved to? I need to > update the CemeteryCensus web site for this cemetery. > > http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/durh/cem060.htm > > > > ----- > Allen Dew > voice: 919-471-3548 or 919-528-0161 > cell: 919-423-5300 > E-mail: mailto:[email protected] > Web Pages: <http://cemeterycensus.com> > . > > ************************* > Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ > Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >