Cemeteries of Mecklenburg County

Zoar Methodist Church

The cemetery is on the side of the church and is visible from the road.

United House of Prayer for All People Church and Cemetery

The cemetery is beside the church and can be best seen from the parking lot.

Unknown Origin

There were two tombstones found under the deck of a private home.

Washington Carver Memorial Gardens

This cemetery was listed only in the 1962 Charlotte phone book. There are no listings in earlier or later years.

Documentation

(1) Pamela Rasfeld, 2000

Philadelphia Presbyterian Church and Cemetery-3rd site

The church was founded in 1770. A history of this church is entitled The Presbyterian Gathering on Clear Creek, by Russell Martin Kerr published by Philadelphia Presbyterian Church, 2001.There are two cemeteries for this church at this location. One is to the side of the sanctuary, and one is in front of the church. Both can be seen from the road. The one across the street from the church is also known as Evergreen, not to be confused with the cemetery on Central Ave., owned by the City of Charlotte. For more information, please visit the Church's website.

Red Branch Missionary Baptist Cemetery - 1st site

A local resident grew up hearing this cemetery called a slave cemetery. She believes the last burial was in the 1950s. The deceased had been a member of the Red Branch Missionary Baptist Church.

Documentation:

Paula Griffin In 2001

Location:

This cemetery is in a grove of trees behind an abandoned white house on the north side of Hough Road.

Sharon Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

A list of those buried in the cemetery was completed by A. P. Long for the Historical Records Survey of North Carolina in 1936. The cemetery can be viewed best from the church parking lot.

Documentation

(1) A complete abstract is in Mecklenburg County, NC, Cemeteries, Vol. 2, South Mecklenburg, compiled by Pinny and Mel Cook, 2003.

Shuman Cemetery

The cemetery appears on a 1923 surveyor's map of "Shuman Property." The map shows "Shuman Avenue," which has now become part of Remount Road, at its intersection with South Boulevard. The cemetery is located at the corner of Youngblood Street, which did not exist at the time the map was made. The lot size is 100 x 110, so it appears to have been a very small family cemetery.

Phyllis Lane Cemetery

This cemetery is believed to have been a slave cemetery.