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247    PICKETT, ASA & TERMESIA FAMILY

Located in Triangle Township on logging road leading off Randolph Road one-quarter mile east of 3400 block (entrance road called Reamy Road on tax records).

Coordinates: 35d 58m 42.0s N; 78d 59m 14.0s W Click here for Google maps

This abandoned cemetery has six graves with legible markers and eight graves marked with native stones. Some graves enclosed by wrought iron fence. Cemetery could be threatened by planned road development. Canvassed by Jean B. Anderson and David Southern (1980). Additional information from Barbara Elliott in June 2002 and Richard Pickett in 2003.

1. O'Briant, Infant   (b. - d. 27 Dec 1906)
Infant child of Robert and Rosa Pickett O'Briant.
2. O'Briant, Nancy E.   (b. 3 Dec 1841 - d. 30 Jul 1927)
Spouse - William O'Briant. 'But our God is in the heavens, He hath done whatsoever he pleased'
3. O'Briant, William   (b. 1 Oct 1840 - d. 17 Mar 1917)
Spouse - Nancy E. O'Briant. CSA. 'A precious one from us is gone. Avoice we loved is stilled. A place is vacant in our home, Which never can be filled.'
4. Pickett, Asa   (b. Aug 1830 - d. 20 Aug 1905)
Spouse - Termesia Marcom Pickett, daughter of Wiley Marcom and Sally Carlton. 'God's finger touched him and he slept'
5. Pickett, Buena Vista   (b. 6 Jul 1889 - d. 1 Apr 1914)
Daughter of Virgil Pickett, the son of Asa Pickett. She never married.
6. Pickett, Dewey Sampson   (b. 7 Apr 1898 - d. 26 Sep 1899)
Son of Stantford Henry Pickett. Tombstone had fallen into grave. It was uncovered and reset.
7. Pickett, Stantford Henry   (b. 17 Nov 1856 - d. 22 Jun 1904)
Father of Rosa Pickett that married Robert O'Briant. Tombstone had fallen into grave. It was uncovered and reset.
8. Pickett, Termesia Marcom   (b. 19 Aug 1834 - d. 7 Mar 1912)
Spouse - Asa Pickett. Daughter of Wiley Marcom and Sally Carlton. 'Tho lost to sight, to memory dear'
9. Pickett, Virgil Henry   (b. 24 Dec 1860 - d. 13 Mar 1902)
Son of Asa Pickett.