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535    BOYD [T30.1]

      Location - Cape Fear Township. East of SR 1918, Dickens Road, north of NC 42

      Coordinates: 35d 34m 38.9s N; 78d 59m 54.7s W Click here for Online Maps

      In February 1984, Martha Harrington recorded 1 grave marker and noted 4 graves without inscription. Recorded by Kathy Brooks Jones in Buffalo Creek Chronicles, Vol. I, 1984, page 9. Boe Goodwin photographed the site in June 2023.

      Owner: Tarheel Land and Timber
      Legal: Parcel 5420. Deed 1771/402, plat 2015-52. Plat does not show cemetery. Older deeds and plats referenced: DB 254/363, Oct 1958 (tract 2 references graveyard); plat 90-107; estate file 14 E 188 (estate of Clifford Cameron Dickens); CR/521 to JH Lawrence from MJ Boyd, 18 Nov 1895 (excepts 35' square graveyard).
      Topo Quadrant: Cokesbury.
      Family owned: Yes.
      Abandoned: Yes.
      Number of graves: 5.
      Size: 35x35' by deed CR/521.
      White: Yes.
      Restricted access: Private property.
      Poorly maintained: Yes.
      Overgrown and easy to identify: Yes.
      Enclosed: No.
      Markers: Yes.
      Markers with inscriptions: Yes.
      Number of readable markers: 1.
      Last burial: 1877.
      First burial: 1877.
      Listed: Yes.
      Listed explanation: Kathy Brooks Jones, "Buffalo Creek Chronicles," Vol. I, 1984, p. 9.
      Other information: The Boyd family is listed in Cape Fear Township in 1870. The one inscribed marker is for Mary Lee Womble Boyd, first wife of Murphy Jones Boyd. Loggers have left trees around the cemetery.
      Last canvassed by: Martha Harrington. Date: Feb 1984; Boe Goodwin, June 2023.


  1. Boyd, Mary Lee Womble   (b. 1831 - d. 1877)
      • Wife of M. J. [Murphy Jones] Boyd. Buffalo Creek Chronicles. Inscribed granite marker.
  2. Unknown, Unknown   (b. Unknown - d. Unknown)
      • Fieldstones.
  3. Unknown, Unknown   (b. Unknown - d. Unknown)
      • Fieldstones.


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