Norris Cemetery

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Norris Cemetery

Location: on Walnut Grove Church Road (SR 1001) less than a mile from Hurdle Mills Road (SR 1506) on the left, well-maintained and visible from road.
Directions: From Roxboro take Hurdle Mills Road to Walnut Grove Church Road, on the left.
GPS Coordinates: 36 15 04.0 N 079 03 59.5 W
Survey: June 2, 2004 by Ken Dalton and Becky Farlow

Graves

(The information below is an exact transcription of the information on the stones. The lines on each stone are marked by a slash. Comments are in parentheses.)

With back to road, facing cemetery, survey starts nearest the road and goes from left to right.

WALSH (double stone)
1. Namon Andrew / 9-6-1924 / 6-1-2002 /
2. Lottie Norris / 7-1-1923 / 7-23-2003 / ( dau of Artelia & Charles Norris )

NORRIS (double stone)
3. Arthur William / 11-25-1918 / 8-15-1994 / ( m.Nov 22, 1952 son of Artelia & Charles Norris )
4. Clarine Allen / 12-29-1928 / Living /

PARKER (double stone) / Thy Kingdom Come /
5. Floyd / 12-4-1912 / 4-6-1990 /
6. Annie Lou Norris / 9-1-1912 / 9-23-1988 / ( d/o Artelia & Charles Norris )

NORRIS (double stone)
7. Artelia B. / 3-2-1887 / 8-11-1975 / ( Cathron "Tealie" Brown. m. Apr 15, 1908 )
8. Charles / 10-29-1876 / 11-20-1968 / (s/o John & Cora Norris )

NORRIS (double stone)
9. John W. / 1873-1969 / ( s/o W M & Harret Norris )
10. Cora Lee / His Wife / 1871-1943 /

11. Harret J. / Wife of / W. M. NORRIS / 5-10-1848 / 1878 / Having Finished Life's Duty, / She Now Sweetly Rests /

12. W. M. NORRIS / 3-15-1847 / 7-22-1913 /

WILSON (double stone)
13. Etta / 1880 / 10-19-1970 / ( Norris )
14. Bethel / 1865 - 1929 /

WILSON (double stone)
15. Coy / 9-22-1901 / 2-6-1932 / ( William Coy, s/o Etta & Bethel Wilson )
16. Misouri B. / 10-6-1901 / 1-10-1967 / ( Eliza Misouri Brown, w/o Coy Wilson, d/o Haywood & Mary Susan Cates Brown. Coy and Misouri marr. Apr 17, 1927 in Roxboro, NC )

ALBERT (double stone)
17. Besse Crabtree / Mother / 10-12-1911 / 2-24-1986 /
18. Edgar O. / Father / 9-29-1912 / 8-3-1998 /

19. Renie C. NORRIS / At Rest / 12-25-1910 / 6-1-1912 /

20. Unknown baby (marked head and foot with fieldstone -- in line with 19 and 21) ( possibly Infant Dau July 2, 1907 July 10, 1907 )

21. Euliss H. NORRIS / Buded (sic) on earth to bloom in heaven. / 4-14-1914 / 10-1-1916 /

22. Luvennia N. MURRAY / 9-7-1893 / 3-2-1955 /

23. Walter D. BROWN / US Army / World War I / 2-1-1893 / 3-27-1978 / ( Draughn, never married )

BROWN (double stone) / Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord. /
24. Haywood R. / 6-7-1859 / 11-7-1940 / ( Ruffin, m. Mar 14, 1886 s/o Alfred & Martha Peede Brown )
25. Susie / 3-30-1867 / 1-22-1953 / ( Mary Susan Cates Brown d/o Richard W & Mary Trimm Cates )

26. Maynard D. BROWN / 6-5-1909 / 9-8-1983 / ( Doyle )

27. Louisa B. BROWN / 5-21-1916 / 8-6-1983 / ( Baldwin )

CRABTREE (double stone)
28. Minnie S. Brown / 2-5-1889 / 4-10-1970 / ( Susan )
29. Archie Frank / 8-20-1879 / 3-24-1956 /

30. Doris Marie CRABTREE / 1930-2003 /

31. Roger Lee CRABTREE / 4-1-1946 / 11-19-1967 /

CRABTREE (double stone)
32. Dora Martin / 1-2-1927 / Living
33. Vance H (Mutt) / 2-6-1921 / 10-10-1995 /

RUDDER (double stone) / Precious Lord take my hand /
34. Clarence Edward / 11-13-1906 / 1-23-1984 /
35. Flossie Crabtree / 1-10-1913 / 2-3-1986 /

36. Charlie Graham ASHLEY / 1910-1975 / ( born Apr 29, 1911 from family records, died in house fire, s/o Sarah & Tinnie Ashley, m. Helen Rodgers, d/o Ada & M Rodgers, Helen died of heart attack Jun 7, 1996, buried in Mebane NC )

37. Mollie E. ASHLEY / 1908-1910 / ( died of diptheria, d/o Sarah & Tinnie Ashley )

ASHLEY (double stone)
38. Sarah Alice Davis / wife of / Tinnie Ashley / 5-23-1891 / 3-22-1944 / ( d/o Gideon "Toad" & Minnie "Jack" Davis of Hillsborough NC)
39. Tinnie / 7-7-1882 / 8-14-1979 / ( m. Nov 4, 1905 in Durham, NC )

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