William Pearce Family Cemetery

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This page last updated on 28 March 2005

Location: Berry Pearce Road (SR 1120 )
Directions: From Roxboro, 501S to right on Dick Holeman Road (SR 1123 ) to right on Satterfield Road (SR 1134 ) to left on Berry Pearce. Cemetery is in woods on left beyond bottom, behind powerline clearing
Access: In woods 1000 feet off road in wrought iron fence
Survey: March 2005 by Ken Dalton and Becky Farlow
GPS: 36 16 03.3 N 079 00 20.7 W

This cemetery is a match to WPA # 154 - Pearce .

Extra information provided by (Ernest Blalock Survey) and [WPA survey].

For additional information about Obadiah Pearce see article # 705 in Person Co Heritage Volume 1.

Graves

All burials appear to be inside wrought iron fence

1 - Geo B (Briggs) PEARCE / May 31, 1835 / Apr 16, 1919 / Gone but not forgotten / (fs) GBP ( husband of Elizabeth L Tapp. She is buried at Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery. Son of William Billy and Frances Briggs Pearce)

2 - Ina S PEARCE / Dec 18, 1880 / Feb 9 , 1970 / (daughter of George Briggs and Elizabeth Tapp Pearce. Ina was married to Joseph Allen Blalock. He is buried in Barnett Blalock cem)

3 - W PEARCE / Died / Jan 5, 1862 / Aged 62 Yrs / ( William "Billy" born Dec 3, 1800. h/o Frances P Briggs, s/o Obadiah & Sally Moore Pearce. )

4 - Sophia J / wife of / S H CATES / Nov 26, 1843 / Mch 24, 1876 / (fs) SJC / ( w/o Samuel H Cates, d/o William & Frances Briggs Pearce)

5 - Emily PEARCE / wife of / Albert Bowden / Jun 4, 1838 / Oct 15, 1885 (Ernest Blalock says Emily was w/o Simpson N Latta. She is buried beside him. d/o William & Frances Briggs Pearce.)

6 - S N LATTA / Di Aug 3, 1863 / Age 43 Ys 8 Mo / an 22 Days / (Simpson, h/o Emily M Pearce)

7 - (broken stone) "E" and "rfield" / [WPA lists this as S E SATTERFIELD, died May 22, 1861, Age 29 yrs. 6 mo. ]

8 - fieldstone / (Frances P Briggs PEARCE, b. Mar 23, 1804 d. Jan 8, 1882, w/o William "Billy" Pearce)

9 - fieldstone / (William S PEARCE, b. Oct 24, 1868 d. Nov 7, 1903, s/o George Briggs & Elizabeth Tapp Pearce)

10 - fieldstone / (Henry O PEARCE, b. Aug 11, 1870 d. Nov 21, 1870, s/o George Briggs & Elizabeth Tapp Pearce)

11 - fieldstone / (Biddie F PEARCE, b. Nov 8, 1874 d. Sep 18, 1878, d/o George Briggs & Elizabeth Tapp Pearce)

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