Cemetery Records

Hopewell Presbyterian Church Cemetery

Huntersville, Mecklenburg Co., NC

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2005	One of the original pews, located in the Shields Chapel 2005
Hopewell Presbyterian Church, Mecklenburg Co., NC c. 2005

Partial listing of 592 names, including the following surnames:

Abernathy (24),    Alexander (63),   Allen (2),   Allison,   Baker (6),   Barkley (6),   Barnett (3),   Barron (2),   Barry (9),   Barton,   Bean,   Beaty (3),   Bell,   Black (3),   Blackwood (2),   Blythe (13),   Bradley (3),   Brown (3),    Butler (2),    Caldwell (2),   Campbell (3),   Cannon & Canon (9),   Capps (3),   Carr (9),   Carson (3),   Collins,   Craven (2),   Cumming,   Davidson (9),   Dohorty & Dougherty,   Douglas & Douglass (4),   Dunn,   Dunnfe,   Elliott & Elliotte (9),   Emerson,   Fullham,   Garrison,   Gathings,   Graham (2),   Grey (2),   Hampton (6),   Hannon,   Harry (7),  Henderson (35),   Houston (7),   Hunter (3),   Irvin (3),   Jamison (7),   Johnson (2),   Kennerly (2),   Kerns (20),   Kerr (2),   Kincaid,   King,   Knox,   Latta (3),   Lawing (2),   Little (5),   Long (2),   Love,   Luckey (2),   Martin (3),   McAulay (3),   McClure (4),   McCorkle (11),   McCoy (5),   McCraken,   McCreaken,   McElroy (5),   McEntire (3),   McGin,   McKnight,   McLure (2),   McNeely (4),   Miller,   Mincy,   Monteith (9),   Moore (10),   Nance (2),   Parks (17),   Patterson (4),   Peel,   Peoples (4),   Petters,   Pharr (2),   Puckett (16),   Rankin (3),   Reid (2),   Robinson (4),   Rodgers,   Ross (3),   Rufsel or Russel,   Sample (18),  Shields (7),    Sommerville,   Spencer,   Stephens (6),   Stevens (2),   Stewart (5),   Stinson,   Stowe (2),   Stuart (3),   Thompson & Thomson (6),   Todd (6),   Torrance & Torrence (11),   Underwood (4),   Vance (10),   Wallis,   Warren (2),   Wharton (3),   White (8),   Whitley (5),   Wier,   Williams (8),   Williamson (2),   Willis,   Wilson (18),   Winders,   Withers,   Woodruff,   Woods (2)

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Name	Surname	Sex	Title	Born	Birth Year	Died	Death Year	Age at death	Spouse Name	Spouse Surname	Parents Names	Parents Surname	Notes
{infant}	Rankin										Polly	Rankin	buried w/ mother
Polly	Rankin	f				January 30	1803	33					buried w/ infant; surv. by husband & 5 children
Richard	Rankin	m				March 23	1804	35
Elizabeth L.	Reid	f		February 09	1797	May 04	1838		Rufus	Reid			2nd wife of Rufus Reid
Nancy L.	Reid	f	Mrs.	February 15	1801	November 06	1833		Rufus	Reid
Abigail Barnett	Robinson	f				May 28	1888	98
Archibald	Robinson	m					1879
Mary A.	Robinson	f		Nov (Mar) 9	1813	April 09	1845				William Bain	Alexander
Mary A.	Robinson	f		November 09	1813	April 09	1845				William Bain	Alexander
John M.	Rodgers	m		April 28	1888	February 12	1890				A. W. & S. J.	Rodgers
James	Ross	m				April 06	1809	39
Polly Tilley	Ross	f				January 31	1809	2 yrs, 10 days			James & Catey	Ross
Ruben E.	Ross					September 05	1824	23 yrs, 2 mos, 12 days
David	Rufsel "(Russel ?)"	m				March 28	1802	69 yrs, 1 day
Araminta C.	Sample					July 11	1794	5 yrs, 6 mos
David Irwin	Sample	m		August 06	1837	January 11	1918	75
E. Eugenia Harris	Sample	f		August 07	1842	January 28	1893		J. McCamie	Sample
Elizabeth Alexander	Sample	f				August 01	1822	75 yrs, 6 mos
James	Sample	m		February 14	1770	January 07	1853
James McCamie	Sample	m		January 19	1835	April 16	1927	92					elder of Hopewell Church for over 55 yrs
Jane L. Barry	Sample	f		March 29	1811	May 11	1876	65 yrs, 1 mo, 13 days	Wm. A.	Sample
Jennie Pearl	Sample	f		March 25	1893	October 13	1895
Lee Houston	Sample							2 yrs, 2 mos			D. I. & R. E.	Sample	no dates
M. Ida Williams	Sample	f		July 05	1851	August 11	1889		John W.	Sample
Martha	Sample	f		September 22	1777	December 31	1861	84 yrs, 3 mos, 9 days	Jas.	Sample
Martha E.	Sample	f		September 08	1832	September 20	1857				Wm. A. & I. L.	Sample
Pauline	Sample	f		November 04	1894	October 04	1895
Rebecca Ellie McCoy	Sample	f		March 22	1842	February 17	1903	69 yrs, 10 mos, 25 days	D. I.	Sample
Richard Sidney	Sample	m		December 03	1830	November 20	1831				Wm. A. & J. L.	Sample
Robert Midas	Sample	m		July 31	1889	August 21	1890				John W. & Ida W.	Sample
William	Sample	m				September {no date listed}	1791	"near 55 years"
William A.	Sample	m		April 15	1803	June 29	1877	74 yrs, 2 mos, 14 days					elder of Hopewell Church for 46 yrs, 1831 - 1877
A. C.	Shields	m		December 27	1826	September 09	1899	72 yrs, 8 mos, 12 days	Jane Ailene Henderson	Shields	{William}	Shields	my ancestor, Alexander Cowan Shields
Alice Ona	Shields	f		June 10	1908	April 21	1910				Cowan Lemley & Julia Nancy Alexander	Shields
Banner Jane	Shields	f		September 13	1895	March 09	1915				Cowan Lemley & Julia Nancy Alexander	Shields
Cowan Lemley	Shields	m		July 10	1863	March 21	1928		Julia Nancy Alexander	Shields	{Alexander Cowan & Jane Ailene Henderson}	Shields	my ancestor
Jane A. {Ailene} Henderson	Shields	f		October 24	1824	April 22	1898	73	Alexander Cowan	Shields
Julia {Nancy} Alexander	Shields	f		September 29	1866	{June 13}	{1957}		Cowan Lemley	Shields	{Ezekiel & Mary Ann McGahey}	Alexander	my ancestor
W. B. {William Benjamin}	Shields	m		April 16	1856	September 20	1893
Kate Nelson	Sommerville	f		July 11	1851	January 16	1936		Chas. Wm.	Sommerville	Dr. Thomas L. Gregory & Catherine	Nelson	b. at "the Piping Tree", VA; md 1) 20 Jun 1878 Rev. Jno. Watkins Dabney of Campinas, Brazil; 5 children born in Campinas, Brazil; md 2) 4 Aug 1892 Chas. Wm. Sommerville of Hampden-Sydney, VA
Sarah Ann	Spencer	f				August 29	1806	18
Allen Preston	Stephens					March 29	1930
Ase E.	Stephens			November 14	1847	June 10	1927
Cynthia A.	Stephens	f		February 28	1856	April 20	1936						had children (poss. mother of Sarah Bell Stephens)
J. L.	Stephens			September 18	1870	August 18	1901
Sallie Loel	Stephens	f		June 03	1845	March 19	1908
Sarah Bell	Stephens	f		November 20	1885	June 17	1913
Laura S.	Stevens	f		October 04	1872	June 29	1879				S. J. & M. C.	Stevens
Mollie R.	Stevens	f		September 24	1871	February 25	1879				S. J. & M. C.	Stevens
Laura Susan	Stewart	f		October 04	1873	March 29	1879				S. J. & M. C.	Stewart
Mary Clementine	Stewart	f		September 12	1853	May 28	1911		S. J.	Stewart
Mollie Rebecca	Stewart	f		September 24	1879	February 25	1880				S. J. & M. C.	Stewart
S. J.	Stewart			February 18	1840	May 26	1921
Susan C.	Stewart	f		May 12	1824	June 25	1879
Michael W.	Stinson	m				January 09	1808	5
H. A.	Stowe					March 21	1878	7 yrs, 5 mos, 21 days
Jemima Peoples	Stowe	f		September 16	1821	November 02	1884				John & S. S.	Peoples
Isabella F.	Stuart	f		September 03	1830	December 28	1896
Nancy Alexander	Stuart	f		November 02	1835	June 24	1906
Thomas A.	Stuart			October 28	1826	October 25	1895
Gideon	Thompson					October {no date listed}	1796	71
James	Thompson	m	Capt.			January 28	1781	30
Jannett	Thompson					February 02	1796	69
Sarah	Thompson	f				February 16	1828	74					md; mother
Thomas	Thompson					March 02	1781	58
John	Thomson	m				March 13	1775	21
Christian	Todd					February 22	1801	60
George W.	Todd	m				August 20	1812	2 yrs, 8 mos			James & Nancy	Todd
John	Todd	m				February 23	1873	75
Joseph	Todd					November 07	1825	76
William	Todd					January 08	1829	90
William Neel	Todd					April 19	1819	25
James Galbraith	Torrance	m		November 19	1784	December 12	1847
Jane Adeline	Torrance	f			1811	March {no date listed}	1820
Margaret Allison	Torrance	f		January 06	1798	January 19	1820
Mary L.	Torrance	f		December 19	1799	November 26	1821
William L.	Torrance	m		January 20	1822	May 26	1852
Eliza Gaston	Torrence	f		January 20	1843	June 10	1916		Richard Allison	Torrence
Hugh	Torrence	m				February 14	1816	73
Isabella	Torrence	f				February 01	1816	76
John Andrew	Torrence	m		January 28	1839	December 21	1904
Nancy A.	Torrence	f				November 11	1818	26
Richard Allison	Torrence	m		December 07	1838	May 22	1927
Carrie J. McElroy	Underwood	f		September 01	1875	June 20	1928		John M.	Underwood
Jno. D.	Underwood	m		December 09	1836	March 01	1901		Nancy J.	Underwood			father
John M.	Underwood	m		September 02	1871	May 30	1929		Carrie J. McElroy	Underwood
Nancy J.	Underwood	f		December 09	1841	February 22	1922		Jno. D.	Underwood
{infant}	Vance	m					1922				W. D. & Odessa	Vance
David	Vance	m				February 13	1827	50
Elizabeth C.	Vance	f		December 08	1851	December 22	1896						mother
Jane M.	Vance	f		September 21	1820	April 13	1901
John D.	Vance	m		November 28	1853	March 01	1917
Julia A. Fullwood	Vance	f		July 23	1851	March 23	1898		M. W.	Vance
Kate Estelle	Vance			November 10	1885	June 06	1887
Katharine	Vance					September 07	1826	43
Marcus William	Vance			October 14	1849	July 10	1928
William	Vance					December 10	1821	19 yrs, 4 mos
Sarah C. B.	Wallis					December 16	1843	29 yrs, 11 mos, 14 days
Cora	Warren	f		April 13	1880	September 07	1909		C. E.	Warren
Edney Johnston	Warren	f		June 25	1902	April 05	1904
{infant}	Wharton	f											buried w/ mother Elizabeth Jane Wharton; no dates listed
{infant}	Wharton	f											buried w/ mother Elizabeth Jane Wharton; no dates listed
Elizabeth Jane	Wharton	f				August 04	1855	27	Samuel D.	Wharton
David H.	White	m											CSA, Co. H, NC Inf.
Edna May Parks	White	f		May 27	1882	November 21	1924		Arthur P.	White
Edna May Parks	White												"(See A. P. White)"
Laura H.	White	f				June 08	1874		D. H.	White	Joseph Wade & Cynthia R.	Hampton	"unmarked graves in the new graveyard"
Laura Hampton	White			December 15	1846	June 08	1874
Mattie L.	White	f		May 28	1859	December 04	1901		Thomas A.	White
Thos. A.	White			May 17	1853	June 14	1909
Wade Hampton	White					December 08	1934
Braxton	Whitley					October 18	1866	11 mos
Ella J.	Whitley					January 26	1866	7
Esther Sallie McCoy	Whitley	f				July 29	1867	35	R. D.	Whitley
Jane B.	Whitley					January 22	1865	69
Neil M.	Whitley					January 30	1866	4
Isabella Sophia	Wier	f		February 25	1816	May 08	1845				William B. & Violet D.	Alexander	youngest child
Elizabeth Ann Chiles	Williams	f		February 18	1827	July 12	1904		Rev. Jno. C.	Williams
Emma	Williams			July 20	1849	July 13	1912						"L. M. W.; R. W."
J. H.	Williams			January 17	1830	May 17	1910						"B. W.; J. D. W."
Jas. L.	Williams	m	Rev.	October 16	1854	March 05	1885				Rev. John C. & Elizabeth C.	Williams
John C.	Williams	m	Rev.	March 15	1819	December 22	1874
Nancy Stephens	Williams	f		September 14	1880	July 14	1917		G. F.	Williams
R.	Williams												no dates
Rebecca	Williams	f		October 23	1862	September 20	1872				Rev. J. C. & E. A.	Williams	youngest child
John	Williamson	m	Rev.			September 14	1842	56					b. SC; 5 Oct 1811 licensed to preach, 14 Sep 1813 ordained pastor of Waxhaw congregation in SC; 1818 moved to Hopewell, pastor of Paw Creek
Sarah E.	Williamson	f				September 30	1845	41
Elizabeth	Willis	f		February 01	1854	July 15	1857				S. S. & L.	Willis
Eleanora J.	Wilson	f		April 27	1841	May 16	1907	66 yrs, 19 days	Jas. A.	Wilson
Gilbreath Mc.	Wilson			July 17	1841	June 18	1862
Helen Eleanora	Wilson	f		August 12	1901	June 15	1910				Mac & R. M.	Wilson
Isaac	Wilson	m	Dr.	December 30	1802	December 15	1880	78
James A.	Wilson	m		September 18	1839	July 21	1924
John	Wilson	m				May 09	1815	24
Margaret	Wilson	f		May 20	1793	April 29	1876		Robert	Wilson
Martha L.	Wilson	f				September 01	1838	8 mos			Dr. I. & V. E. L.	Wilson
Olive	Wilson	f		February 18	1867	June 16	1924				J. A. & E. J.	Wilson
R. M.	Wilson			August 30	1847	July 15	1915						CSA, Co. B, 2nd NC Reg.
Rebecca	Wilson	f				June 30	1788	8 mos
Rebecca I.	Wilson	f				November 03	1855	49 yrs, 9 mos, 18 days	Dr. Isaac	Wilson
Rhoda May	Wilson	f		August 26	1879	January 11	1907		Mac	Wilson
S. Angelina	Wilson	f		March 26	1825	September 06	1874				Robert & Margaret	Wilson
Susan M.	Wilson	f		February 13	1816	January 28	1894	77 yrs, 11 mos, 15 days	Dr. Isaac	Wilson
Thomas A.	Wilson			December 11	1827	February 25	1862
Thomas C.	Wilson			August 22	1843	June 29	1862	18 yrs, 10 mos, 7 days
Violet L.	Wilson	f				March 14	1845	33 yrs, 2 mos	Dr. Isaac	Wilson
William	Winders				1867		1920
Aubry W.	Withers			March 21	1898	July 16	1931
{infant}	Woodruff			May 08	1877	May 08	1877				G. E. & B. M.	Woodruff
Elizabeth	Woods					May {no date listed}	1802	32
Matthew	Woods					December {no date listed}	1796	32

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Also see Hopewell Presbyterian Church cemetery headstone photos that I took when I visited the cemetery.

Source:  The History of Hopewell Presbyterian Church, for 175 years from the assigned date of its organization, 1762; by Charles William Sommerville, Ph.D., D.D., Hopewell Presbyterian Church, 1939. {See pages 287 - 313 for transcriptions of inscriptions on these headstones. Also more information can be found on many of these individuals &/or their families throughout the book.}
Extracts submitted by: Susan Shields Sasek. My notes are in curly brackets { }.

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