Bertie County NC Peele Cemetery WPA Survey - Helen Modlin, Worker. 1940 Typed by Fay Wallace Location: This cemetery is located 9 1/2 miles S.W. of the town of Aulander, on the left side of the road leading to Republican. Conditions: Bad, Completely grown up. Name: Jernigan, Sallie Sept. 10, 1854 - March 5, 1925 Peele, James W. born: 11-21-1837 (no dates) Co. C 68 N. C. Inf. C. S. A. Parker, Joseph S. (2nd husband of Mary Moore Rawls) Parker, Mary Moore Rawls Cox died 1906 (burial unknown) (daughter of: Josiah Peelle and Milley Higgs) (1st husband:Samuel Cox (the son of George W Cox and Lydia Peelle) (2nd husband: Joseph S. Parker) Rawls, Elizabeth Watson Pete Austin" Joseph S Parker married my great Aunt Mary Moore Rawls. He was her second husband. Joseph plus his brother in-laws James W Peele and his wife's sister Elizabeth Watson Rawls and others are burned in the same Peele Cemetery near Rhodes Place Crossroads, Bertie Co NC I have not been able to located the grave of Marry Moore Rawls Cox Parker. She died within a week of the death of her Husband Joseph S Parker in February 1906. She may be one of the unmarked graves in the Peele Cemetery. Mary Moore Rawls married first Samuel Cox (my 1st cousin four time removed) the son of George W Cox and Lydia Peelle. She was the daughter of Josiah Peelle and Milley Higgs who were my (Pete Austin) 4th great grand parents. Samuel Cox married first an unknown spouse and they had a daughter named Lula Cox. He married his second wife on 12-14-1853 Sarah Frances Prichard and had one issue Mary Cox. On 08-25-1868 Samuel Cox married as his 3rd wife my Great Aunt Mary Moore Rawls. They had one son Henry F Cox. I have not found any information on this son Henry F. Cox Joseph S Parker was the second husband of Mary Moore Rawls Cox Parker. He is buried in the Peele Cemetery located on the former Jonas Rawls Farm. The gravesites are about one mile east on the left side as you leave Rhodes Place Crossroads towards Francis Mill. This area is now in Snakebite Township, Bertie Co NC. Snakebite is the center core of Bertie County and is totally surrounded by all the other Townships. In the Peele Cemetery is a marker with inscription Augustine Parker. This probably was a child of Mary Moore and Joseph Parker. Their only known child was Mary Bualah Parker who married Thomas "Tom" Bryant Bazemore that lived near Lewiston on SR 1201 one mile going west towards Kelford. Tom and Bualah had four children one who was Mary Jessie Bazemore who married Superior Court Judge Joseph Wiley Parker from Kelford. Jessie had told me that I was related to both her and her husband Joe but I never recorded the data. Probably Joseph S and Judge Joseph W. were that connection. Jesse was my 5th grade teacher and contributed to my first research on the Austin Rawls Young, Everett and Peele families. She also wrote several articles on education in Bertie County. Jessie was my 2nd cousin once removed. She and Joe were good friends of my mine and my family. She always brought her family charts to the Peele and Rawls reunions. Also buried in this Peele Cemetery are my great grand parent James W (William) Peele and his wife Elizabeth "Bettie" "Betsey" "Aunt Bet" Watson Rawls. Aunt Bet as called by her relatives and friends lost her hand in mid life from a bite from a Black Widow Spider and had to have it amputated just below the elbow. She never complained nor did it interfere with he duties as a homemaker. She was known as a kind, loving, and a Christian lady. My aunts and uncles loved to go visit "Aunt Bet". She always had a warm biscuit on the back of the kitchen wood stove or pie safe and some yummy preserves fetched from the root cellar. "Aunt Bet" was a sister to Mary Moore Rawls. Their parents were Moore Rawls and Mary Arabella Smith the daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth Smith. His parent were my g.g.g.g.grand parents Silas Smith and Celia Ellis from Woodville, I have family records that go back to my 9th great grandfather George Rawles Sr who was born 1615 in England and immigrated to America and died in Nansemond Co VA. The Peele cemetery is located on the farm formerly owned by Jonas Rawls and later passes down to his grand daughter Elizabeth Watson Rawls who married James William Peele. Note:I have traced the Peele family back to 9th grandfather Lawrence Peelle that was born 1601 in the British Kingdom, England and came to the Virginia's in the American Colony and died c1664 at County Elizabeth Cities on the Western Branch of the Elizabeth River. In family records this gravesite was called the Peele Cemetery and was found on the Rawls Farm near the Peele School. In the WPA cemetery survey report that was found in the Bertie County Courthouse in Windsor it described the location 9.5 miles S.W. from Aulander on the left side of the road to Republican and called it the Peele Cemetery. At that time it was grown-up with undergrowth. The date of birth of James W. Peele was given as Sept.10, 1845 that is an error. Family records give the date as 11-21-1837. The 1850 census gave (James) William's date of birth 1838. Either the surveyor was wrong with the recording or it was put on the tombstone incorrectly. I have never visited the site and did not know about the cemetery until I was researching the Peele history. A cousin, Wade Peele, wrote me to report that he had visited the cemetery in Feb.2001. He found that apparently a paper company had destroyed six gravesites and damaged others. What a shame this took place. I thought that it was against the law to destroy a grave. We need help as to what recourse we need to take to correct the problem. Additional graves identified in the Peele Cemetery can be found in the text of James William Peele. ======================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access.