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Cemetery Surveys |
Find graves, names, and dates This
link takes you to a page that provides a list of cemeteries for which detailed surveys
have been done. Surveys provide names and dates for each grave in these cemeteries. |
| 2 |
Help with Cemetery Surveys (Guidelines) |
Your help is needed to survey
Person County cemeteries! This link takes you to a page that provides some
tips about how to survey cemeteries. If you can help, please read this information. |
| 3 |
Cemetery Names |
Find cemetery names and
locations This link takes you to a page that provides a "master
list" of the cemeteries in Person County. (Thus this takes you to a list of
cemeteries, not to a list of graves.) The goal for this list is that it include the name
of every cemetery in Person County.
Cemeteries in this list are gleaned from a variety of sources - plats in the
Register of Deeds Office, Heritage of Person County Volumes, neighborhood knowledge of old
cemeteries, and others. |
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WPA Cemetery Names |
Find old cemeteries, cemetery
names and locations The WPA cemetery survey is the single best resourse for
older cemeteries. This link takes you to a page that provides the names and locations of
each of several hunderd cemeteries included in the WPA survey. |
| 5 |
Cemetery Survey -
Person County Historical Society |
Detail surveys done in the
1970s. The Person County Historical Society coordinated cemetery surveys in
the 1970s. The results are available in two places. The original surveys are stored and
thus available at the Society office in the Person County Senior Center in Roxboro. The
results were also typed on 3 x 5 cards and that file is available at the Person County
Register of Deeds office. (The file at ROD is not stored in the documents room, so you
will have to ask for it.) I have obtained a copy of these surveys (about 700 pages total!)
and am now in the process of determining what to do with them! For now these surveys
should serve as useful backup to the various other lists shown on this page. Many of
Ernest Blalock's surveys show up here. If you have specific questions about these surveys,
send me an email. |
| 6 |
USGS Cemetery List |
Find cemetery names and GPS
coordinates from maps Topographic maps include cemeteries. This link takes
you to a list of cemeteries that appear on topographic maps for Person County. |
| 7 |
Ernest Blalock's Cemetery Names |
Ernest Blalock has surveyed many
Person County cemeteries. In the process, he listed the names of many Person County
cemeteries. This link will take you to that list. |
| 8 |
Links |
Links to Internet resources about
Gravestones and Cemeteries ... Association
for Gravestone Studies - This organization has useful information about grave
stones.
Saving Graves |
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Cemeteries owned by the Person County Historical Society |
In order to insure the care of
cemeteries and to make access available, the Society has been deeded several cemeteries by
the famlies who prevously owned them. |
