Newton, Brooks, Clayton Cemetery

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This page last updated on 29 July 2007

Location: 889 Newton-Pleasant Loop, off of Hesters Store Road.
Directions: From Roxboro, take 49 to Roseville. Turn right on Hesters Store Road (SR 1162) then right onto Newton-Pleasant Loop Road (SR 1176)
Access: a well maintained cemetery in a chain link fence.
Survey: completed by Amy Ralston and Rebecca Hessee on May 23 2006
GPS: 36 20 42.3 N 079 07 54.9 W

Graves

CLAYTON (double stone)
1. Aubrey Y / Sept 16 1905 / Nov 17 1971 / (fs) Father
2. Sue B / Jan 17 1915 / June 23 1988 / (fs) Mother

3. CLAYTON / Marion Thomas / Sept 25 1945 / Oct 26 1963

SMITH (double stone)
4. William H / May 28 1877 / Dec 26 1940
5. Mattie L / Aug 18 1872 / Sept 28 1937

TATUM (double stone)
6. Thomas George / Apr 1 1868 / Oct 30 1937
7. Satira E NEWTON / Jan 14 1872 / July 13 1953

CLAYTON (double stone) / Children of / JA & LH CLAYTON
8. Mattie E / Nov 12 1895 / July 30 1918
9. Harvie M / June 1 1894 / July 28 1895

CLAYTON (double stone) / What we keep in memory is unchanged forever
10. John Anderson / Aug 28 1863 / Sept 8 1938
11. Lucy Henderson / June 24 1866 / Dec 12 1954

12. Mary W NEWTON / Jan 9 1844 / June 30 1920

13. J Theo CLAYTON / March 3 1890 / July 6 1935 / Gone but not forgotten / A friend to his country and a / believer in Christ

14. GASS / Minerva Corinne NEWTON / Sept 4 1901 / July 9 1983

15. Lafayette G / BROOKS / May 16 1872 / March 6 1943/ In loving Memory / (fs) Lafayette G BROOKS / May 16 1872 / March 6 1943

NEWTON (double stone)
16. John Henry / Apr 11 1864 / Dec 30 1935 / (fs) JHN
17. Betty Brooks / Dec 30 1867 / Oct 18 1938 / (fs) BBN

(Monument)
(Side 1) J L BROOKS / July 25 1835 / Oct 15 1904
(Side 2 - Blank)
(Side 3) Martha W / wife of / J L BROOKS / Sept 23 1829 / Nov 1 1899
(Side 4) Asleep in Jesus / blessed sleep / from which none ever / wake to sleep / a calm and undisturbed / repose / unbroken by the last of / foes

(Monument)
(Side 1) John L BROOKS / born / Jan 29 1871 / died / June 14 1887 / To him we trust a / a place is given / Among the saints / with Christ in Heaven
(Side 2) John L and / Corinne C / Beloved son and / daughter of / J L BROOKS
(Side 3) Corinne C / BROOKS / born / Sept 25 1874 / died / Nov 17 1898 / Beautiful lovely, she / was but given / a fair bud of earth / to bloom in Heaven
(Side 4 - Blank)

Notes

July 28, 2007 - The Tatum double stone had been noted as "leaning." It has be reset and is no longer leaning so that notation has been removed.

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