History:
The author said the property at the time was owned by Mr. R. L. McGinn. There were only stones for 3 people. There were many other field stones marking graves. There is no additional information. The author described the location on a hill overlooking McAlpine Creek.
Location:
The author described the location on a hill overlooking McAlpine Creek.
Documentation
See "Taylor Cemetery," Dennis R. Dean survey for Mecklenburg Co. Genealogy Society on 12-16-1982
Documentation
(1) Taylor Cemetery Dennis R. Dean survey for Mecklenburg Co. Genealogy Society on 12-16-1982
The church moved to another location and used some of the gravestones for the foundation of the new church. This is not a complete list of burials. The cemetery used to be off Sharon Road near Wendover.
This is one of the earliest churches in the county. One cemetery is on south side of Craighead Rd., west of N. Tryon. It has a large rock wall that serves as the base of its fence. See Photo #1 .
The cemetery is north of the end of Winget Rd. and east of the creek.
Documentation
(1) Mecklenburg Co., NC (map), 3rd ed., Alexandria Drafting Co., Alexandria, VA, 2000
A list of burials is an article entitled "Plaza Road Baptist Church", by Sharon Baker, Olde Mecklenburg Genealogical Society, Vol. 12, #2, 1994. This cemetery is behind the church and cannot be viewed from the street.
The cemetery is located behind the church. It can be viewed best from the parking lot.
There is information about this cemetery in Hunter's Sketches of Western North Carolina and Foote's Sketches of North Carolina.
Documentation
(1) Violet G. Alexander wrote about this cemetery in the North Carolina Booklet, Vol. 15, pps. 152-157.
(2) See also Kytja Weir, "WHEN LOST GRAVES AND GROWTH COLLIDE - PROJECT ON HOLD AS HOSPITAL RELOCATES 1770S CEMETERY", Charlotte Observer, May 17, 2007, p.1A
According to the stone marker in the cemetery, this church was organized in 1888 with services held in a brush arbor directly across the road. A building was placed there the same year. It was replaced in 1908 by a building on this site. A third structure was built one and a half miles east of here. The original acre of land in this park was donated by Rachel Hutchinson, whose burial was the first made on it. The burial records were provided by the Pleasant Grove Memorial Park Cemetery Committee in May 2006.
