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070    PROVIDENCE BAPTIST CHURCH   -   Surname starts with Y

Location - 1319 Virgilina Rd (Hwy 49), Roxboro.

Coordinates: 36d 24m 55.2s N; 78d 57m 04.8s W Click here for Online Maps

Providence Baptist Church Cemetery is located on NC 49 approximately 2 miles north of Roxboro. The oldest part of the cemetery is on the north side of the educational building which stands now and was built in 1955. This building is on the site where the first church was built in 1862. According to the church records, the first pastor, Rev. William Ennis Oakley, was the first one to be buried in the cemetery. He was born April 3 1805 and died Sept 7 1876. No doubt there are some earlier graves but no markers exist as proof. The cemetery on the west side of the educational building is the next oldest. The third cemetery is on the other side of the old road leading from Roxboro to South Boston Va.. The oldest grave in this area is 1918.

In 1961 Longhurst Cotton Mill deeded the private cemetery joining the church cemetery to the church. This portion of the cemetery is located off of Providence Road. The Dunn cemetery which is joined to the Longhurst Cotton Mill cemetery is not included in this list below at this time. Several graves were moved to Providence Cemetery in April 1977, when CP&L constructed Mayo Lake as part of the construction of the Mayo Power Plant. Even though all of the graves appear to be associated with the Providence Cemetery, only 3 are kept up by the church, the Dunn Cemetery and Old Longhurst cotton mill cemetery are kept up by family members. At the present time a person has to be member of Providence Baptist Church to obtain a cemetery lot in the church portion and some of the Longhurst Cotton Mill Area. Most of the Longhurst Cotton Mill Area and the Dunn Cemetery are owned by family members who purchased them from the Cotton Mill before 1961. But to me, all of these cemeteries are collectively known as the Providence Cemetery.

View #2 of the cemetery. View #3 of the cemetery. View #4 of the cemetery. View #5 of the cemetery.
View of the church. View of the church sign.

Survey by Danny Lamberth in April 2000. Survey updated by Allen Dew in January 2016. Survey updates by Melanie Sabins in February 2016. All photographs by Melanie Sabins and John Sabins in January 2016.



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1. Yancey, Esther Royal Gravitt   (b. 11 Mar 1923 - d. 19 Sep 2014)
Wife of Thomas Obadiah Yancey, Sr. Daughter of Caleb and Annie Gentry Yancey. Mother of Cecil Yancey. Grandmother of Gary Keane and Ryan Yancey. Native of Person Co., NC
2. Yancey, James W. "Jimmy"   (b. 7 Jul 1945 - d. 21 Jul 1959)
Son of Thomas & Esther Yancey
3. Yancey, Lorraine   (b. 21 May 1968 - d. 21 May 1968)
Daughter of Thomas & Esther Yancey
4. Yancey, Thomas Obadiah, Jr. "Obie"   (b. 16 Oct 1948 - d. 21 Apr 2006)
5. Yancey, Thomas Obadiah, Sr.   (b. 4 Dec 1924 - d. 4 Jul 2005)
Husband of Esther Royal Gravitt Yancey
6. Yarboro, Annie   (b. 1897 - d. 18 Mar 1931)
In God we trust
7. Yarboro, Bonnie Mae Biddix Smith "Belle"   (b. 4 May 1889 - d. 23 Feb 1963)
Wife of Johnnie Pat Yarboro. Blessed Are The Dead Which Die In The Lord
8. Yarboro, Infant Son   (b. 9 Nov 1948 - d. 10 Nov 1948)
9. Yarboro, Johnnie Pat   (b. 15 Aug 1893 - d. 9 Feb 1963)
Husband of Belle Smith Yarboro
10. Yarboro, Lewis F.   (b. 22 Jul 1908 - d. 10 Jul 1918)
11. Yarboro, Winifred   (b. 5 Nov 1946 - d. 10 Feb 1947)
12. Yarbrough, Louis F.   (b. 22 Jul 1908 - d. 10 Jul 1918)
Son of J. L. and M. B. Yarbrough
13. Young, Arthur Edward   (b. 19 May 1910 - d. 15 May 1999)
Husband of Blanche Thorton Young. Son of Robert Kyles and Lucy Maude Gravitte Young. Young monument.
14. Young, Blanche T.   (b. 6 Oct 1911 - d. 12 Oct 2012)
Wife of A. Edward Young. Young monument.
15. Young, Ernest Merritt   (b. 19 May 1919 - d. 29 Sep 1989)
Husband of Martha Edan Warren Young. Son of Ernest Moore & Ethel Pugh Young. CPL US Army WW-II Military marker.
16. Young, Ernest Moore   (b. 27 Sep 1889 - d. 14 Jul 1964)
Husband of Ethel Pugh Young. Son of Henry Allen Patillo and Susan Ford Young
17. Young, Ethel Pugh   (b. 2 Oct 1893 - d. 1 Aug 1967)
Wife of Ernest Moore Young
18. Young, Evelyn Mae   (b. 21 May 1921 - d. 21 May 1921)
Daughter of Robert Kyles and Lucy Maude Gravitte Young
19. Young, Henry Allen Patillo   (b. 6 May 1857 - d. 25 Feb 1936)
Husband of "Susie" Susan Virginia Ford Young. Son of James Taylor & Margaret Elexson Young
20. Young, Inez Robertson   (b. 14 Mar 1920 - d. 1 Feb 1993)
In Loving Memory
21. Young, Lucy Maude Gravitte   (b. 5 Apr 1886 - d. 18 Feb 1950)
Wife of "Bob" Robert Kyles Young. Daughter of William M. and Sarah Brooks Gravitte. Young monument.
22. Young, Martha Edna Warren   (b. 30 Aug 1930 - d. 10 Dec 1994)
Wife of Ernest Merritt Young
23. Young, Nannie Thaxton   (b. 1890 - d. 1985)
24. Young, Richard Knox (TH.D.)   (b. 18 Sep 1913 - d. 31 Dec 1974)
Husband of Mary Frances Vickers Young. Son of Ernest Moore and Ethel Pugh Young. He was a preacher.
25. Young, Robert Kiles "Bob"   (b. 1 Oct 1883 - d. 12 Feb 1973)
Husband of Lucy Maude Gravitte Young. Son of Henry Allen Patillo and Susan Ford Young. Young monument.
26. Young, Susan Virginia Ford "Susie"   (b. 12 Aug 1858 - d. 27 Jul 1936)
Wife of Henry Allen Patillo Young. Daughter of George M. and Adeline Wilkerson Ford
27. Young, Tammy "our dog"   (b. Jul 1966 - d. 13 Dec 1979)
A Dog of A. Edward Young and Blanche T. Young. Young monument.