Here's a link to an August 4, 2000, article from the North Raleigh News re: grave relocation (Raleigh News & Observer www.news-observer.com). http://archives.newsbank.com/bin/gate.exe/RLEC?f=doc&SQN=fyq57b89&HED=A+mix+of+emotions+as+graves+move+to+new,+final+resting+place&p_nb_id=G5BO55KLOTY5MDI3MzgxLjEzMDQ4NjoxOjE1OjIwNy4yMTQuMTcxLjE3Mw&state=cavp1v.7.4&sub_type= Apparently, many of the graves are unmarked and names are not known. The article talks about moving graves from the Jones Plantation. Another article, at: http://archives.newsbank.com/bin/gate.exe/RLEC?f=doc&SQN=fxn6u089&HED=Growth+collides+with+graves&p_nb_id=G5BO55KLOTY5MDI3MzgxLjEzMDQ4NjoxOjE1OjIwNy4yMTQuMTcxLjE3Mw&state=cavp1v.12.5&sub_type= states that there are an estimated 300,000 abandoned cemeteries statewide, 85% unmarked. "In North Raleigh, where much of the land was rural farms years ago and there were few laws governing the process, families buried their dead as they saw fit. A back yard was often the makeshift resting place for the poor." It also notes that the Wake County Cemetery Survey Committee has catalogued more than 1,200 cemeteries (and the work of Irene Kittinger).