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Duke-Peed and Dameron Cemeteries

Location: Peed Road (SR 1727) at Duke homeplace.
Directions: From Roxboro, take 158E to right on Mt Harmony Church Road to left on Peed Road. 1 mile on left
Access: Go past house on farm road to barns. This is private property
Survey: Apr 2005 by Ken Dalton and Becky Farlow
GPS (Dameron): 36 18 44.1 N 078 49 48.5 W
GPS (Duke-Peed): 36 18 44.9 N 078 49 49.7 W
Notes: Dameron is a single burial in front of a tobacco barn. Duke-Peed is the older cemetery 500 feet further down the farm path.

Graves

Dameron Cemetery

Mattie Gray / wife of / C P DAMERON / Jun 18, 1896 / Feb 22, 1938 / (single burial under massive boxwood)

Duke – Peed Cemetery

The main cemetery contains at least 24 unmarked fieldstones in a bed of thick periwinkle.

There is one crumbling cement monument that marks 3 graves. (known to be a Peed man and his 2 wives.) Only bits of information remain. This information is:

(Husband Peed) / Born 1832 / Died Dec (?) / (main face of monument)
(Right side unreadable)
(Left side) (complete inscription) / This is the second wife / Died 1895 /

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