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.
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.
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.
This cemetery is believed to have been a slave cemetery.
Documentation:
Dr. Chris Hood
Location:
This cemetery is on the right side of the road, as you turn off Hwy. 51. It is past a cultivated field in a wooded area.
The church and the cemetery are at the end of a long drive way and are not visible from the road. The cemetery is to the side of the church.
The cemetery is on the side of the church and is visible from the road.
See also Liberty Hall / Queens Museum. This cemetery was in the front yard of the original Queens Museum/Liberty Hall school for young men, located in Charlotte. British soldiers killed at Trade and Tryon, during the occupation of Charlotte, were buried there. This location has no evidence of a former cemetery.
Documentation
The Charlotte Observer, 6/7/1936, "Interesting Carolina People", by Mrs. J. A. Yarbrough.
History:
A member of the Torrence family says the cemetery was started for their slaves. The family had a home and property around the present-day Presbyterian Hospital on Elizabeth Ave. in Charlotte.
Documentation:
Undated newspaper article by John W. Harden
Location:
Dr. Charles DeForest Lucas bought the property in 1935. Lucas came from Virginia and bought the property on Campbell Creek to build a gristmill to support his family. At this point in the creek, there is a natural falls, which had previously been the site of a sawmill, which was abandoned in the 1860s. This cemetery may have also been known as Buffalo.
Documentation: Ellen Poteet of the Olde Mecklenburg Genealogical Society