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248    CRABTREE, JOSEPH FAMILY CEMETERY

Location - Just behind the old and abandoned Five Forks Baptist Church in northern Cedar Grove Township on the north side of and adjacent to Hurdle Mills Rd (SR #1506), 0.2 mi east of Wheelers Church Rd (SR #1505). On private property.

Coordinates: 36d 14m 13.5s N; 79d 07m 41.3s W Click here for Online Maps

Survey - Milton Forsyth visited the church location on 7 Feb 2005 and noted the burials behind the church. Mr. Holloway, who was related by marriage to the persons buried there, stopped by and told him about them.

Graves - There are two modern graves; there was no known church cemetery at this location.

Status - The church site is abandoned but the graves are carefully maintained by the family.

1. Crabtree, Beulah L. Scott   (b. 3 Sep 1902 - d. 18 Dec 1974)
Wife of Joseph Martin Crabtree. Note: A stone marking her original burial site is located in the new Five Forks Baptist Church Cemetery (#023).
2. Crabtree, Joseph Martin   (b. 14 Jul 1892 - d. 4 Oct 1985)
married October 15, 1924. "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. II Corinthians 5:1"