Location: End of Yarborough Road off Rolling Hills Road
off Leasburg Road.
Directions: US 158 West (Leasburg Road) past Lea’s Chapel United
Methodist Church to Rolling Hills Road (SR 1166) on the left. Left on Rolling Hills Road
to Yarborough Road (SR 1167) on the right. Having not actually visited this cemetery
(yet!), the best directions are thos of the surveyor: "The Old Snipes Cemetery is
located at the back side of a field at the end of Yarborough Road."
Owner / Tax Map: This cemetery is located on a large tract of land owned
by Marie N. Johnson and identified as PIN 9965-00-71-7977.000 appearing on Tax map A18 44.
Access: This cemetery is on private property and not adjacent to a public
road.
Survey: Kyle S. Kendrick. Date of survey not known.Graves
The surveyor has added additional information about the individuals buried here; thus
the list below is not a literal transcription of the tomb stones.
Snipes, Elijah, husband of Elizabeth Harriet Russell
Snipes. Born 1808 Died 1886
Snipes, Elizabeth Harriet Russell, wife of Elijah Snipes.
Born 1815 Died 1904
Snipes, Ella M. Born October 13, 1877 Died June 29, 1902
Snipes, George Thomas, son of Elijah and Elizabeth
Harriet Russell Snipes Born May 7, 1838 Died May 28,1908
Snipes, James Monroe, CO. K, 52nd NC INF CSA,
husband of Martha Tapp Snipes, Susan J.
Jacobs Snipes and Rosella Whitfield Snipes and son of
Elijah and Elizabeth Harriet Russell Snipes. Born January 8, 1834 Died December 18, 1887
Snipes, John Anderson, CO. H, 24th. NC INF
CSA, son of Elijah and Elizabeth Harriet
Russell Snipes. Born August 17, 1843 Died November 16,
1861
Snipes, Lucinda Eliza, daughter of Elijah and Elizabeth
Harriet Russell Snipes
Born December 12, 1840 Died November 8, 1918 Snipes,
Nancy Wilson, daughter of Elijah and Elizabeth Harriet Russell Snipes Born January 13,
1836 Died September 17, 1878, aged 42 years, 8 months and 4 days
Snipes, Martha, daughter of Elijah and Elizabeth Harriet
Russell Snipes Born January 8, 1854 Died May 22,1864, aged 10 years, 4 months and 14 days
Snipes, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Elijah and Elizabeth
Harriet Russell Snipes Born March 26, 1846 Died November 25, 1925
Snipes, William Edwin, son of James Monroe and Susan
Jacobs Snipes Born December 15,1882 Died March 5, 1945
There are at least a dozen unmarked graves of family slaves and several graves marked
with field stones. |
