Jones - Riggs Cemetery

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This page last updated on 10 March 2006

Location: Jones Rd (SR 1100) on right in field
Directions: From Roxboro, take 49S to Gordonton, turn left on Wheeler’s Church Road (SR 1102), turn right on Jones Road at Wheeler’s Church. Go past the intersection of Ragland Road (SR 1101) about ¾ mile on right in field.
Access: Accessable from the road when there are no crops in the field. We had missed seeing this cemetery on a previous search because of the corn growing here last summer.
Survey: January 1, 2006 by Ken and Becky Dalton with additional info from W Latham Phelps
GPS: 36 14 55.3 N 079 07 28.2 W
Notes: This cemetery is a match with WPA # 171 and the PCHS survey labeled "Riggs-Jan 1972"

Graves

(Scratched on native stone) S BURCH / BORN 1769 (WPA says 1767) / DID 1826 / (1800 census shows Samuel Burch of about the right age residing in about this location)

(Scratched on native stone) H (?) / 1812 (?) /

Abslom JONES / Feb 2, 1834 / Jul 19, 1909 / Death is the crown / of life / (fs) AJ /

Martha E / JONES / Born / Dec 27, 1839 / Died ? Jan 27, 1924 / We trust our loss / will be her gain / (fs) MEJ /

Sandy W JONES / Feb 18, 1872 / Feb 8, 1893 / Gone but not forgotten / (fs) SWJ /

Charlie A JONES / Oct 17, 1864 / Feb 28, 1952 / What we keep in memory is ours / unchanged forever / CAJ /

Ola LEA / (no dates)

Rossie LEA / (no dates)

Sissie LEA / (no dates)

RIGGS / (all info on one stone)
Wiley Riggs / 1811 - 1891 /
Martha M / his wife /
Their children / Mary C / Sarah A / Martha E / Harriet J / Margaret C / Eliza F /
Lucinda C / Susan A (each has a footstone with name on footstone except Eliza F
and Martha E.)

John L PHELPS / (no dates)

About 8 or 10 graves marked by fieldstones

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