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275    STANFORD (MARY MOORE STANFORD) FAMILY CEMETERY

Location - In Bingham Township west of White Cross Road (SR #1951) in a remote and heavily wooded area on private land. On a rise 500 ft west of a field on the Atwater farm, which is at 804 White Cross Road. The cemetery is listed on the Orange County GIS system as PIN 9737-73-9241.

Coordinates: 35d 52m 28.0s N; 79d 12m 35.0s W Click here for Google maps

Survey - Date of 1970s visit not given. Milton Forsyth visited and photographed the cemetery in February 2005 courtesy of Don and Warren Atwater who allowed him access across their land and provided directions.

Graves, Marked [1970s] - There were 3 or 4 marked graves.

Graves, Unmarked [1970s]- There were 7 or 8 unmarked graves.

Status [2005] - The cemetery originally stood near an old house, the remains of which was not readily evident in the current heavy woodland, but it is to the east of an old, now overgrown, roadbed. It had at one time been enclosed by a barbed-wire fence which is now almost gone. Unattended and covered with periwinkle, pinestraw and leaves with some small trees growing on the cemetery. Some new stones and a fine monument have been erected since the 1970s.

1. Neville, Francis Stanford   (b. 27 Oct 1843 - d. 1 May 1899)
"Wife of John G. Neville"; "Daughter of Sauren and Susan Stanford"; "Mother"
2. Potillo, Ann   (b. - d. )
(name on the monument)
3. Snipes, John B.   (b. 1836 - d. 1862)
"Confederate Soldier"
4. Stanford, Elizabeth Ann Thomson   (b. - d. )
"Wife of R. Algernon Stanford" (name on the monument)
5. Stanford, Mary Moore   (b. 21 Sep 1778 - d. 23 Apr 1851)
"Wife of Hon. Richard Stanford and Daughter of Gen. Stephen Moore"; "Saved by Grace" (name on the monument)
6. Stanford, R. Algernon   (b. 1814 - d. 1860)
Husband of Elizabeth Ann Thomson Stanford (name on the monument)
7. Stanford, Sauren   (b. 1806 - d. 1876)
Husband of Susan R. Wade Stanford (name on the monument)
8. Stanford, Susan R. Wade   (b. 1809 - d. 1879)
"Wife of Sauren Stanford" (name on the monument)
9. Webb, Alexander S.   (b. 1804 - d. 1849)
Husband of Cornelia Adeline Stanford Webb (name on the monument)
10. Webb, Cornelia Adeline Stanford   (b. 1811 - d. 1849)
"Wife of Alexander S. Webb" (name on the monument)