Bertie  COUNTY  NC Cemeteries  Powellsville Methodist Church  

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POWELLSVILLE METHODIST CHURCH CEMETERY
 
 
LOCATION     Colerain Township          Bertie County, North Carolina
 
At the junction of State Route 42 and Secondary Road # 1322
(in Powellsville), turn NE onto SR #1322 (Bethlehem Church
Road/John Moore Road).  The Powellsville Methodist Church is
approximately 1/8 mile on the left side of the road, to the
right rear side of the church.
 
 
DATE RECORDED     13 June 1998.  Updated May, 2010.
 
 
RECORDER     Lynn McCarthy
 
 
CONDITION OF CEMETERY
 
The cemetery has unrestricted accessibility.  It is not
fenced.  Maintenance is poor.  One unmarked ledger is broken
in half.  One marker is broken and the pieces are leaning
against the church building.  Only one grave marker remains
intact.  Poison ivy and oak are growing on the grounds
around the markers.
 
 
MARKED GRAVES
 
Mary E.
Wife of
W. E. Vaughan
Born Oct.  22 1848
Died Aug. 27 1917
 
Mary Tayloe
Daughter of
John Tayloe
Sept. 18, 1829
     Died
Apr. 22, 1899
 
 
UNMARKED GRAVES
 
There are numerous unmarked graves indicated by depressed
areas and some mounded spaces.  No known records of burials
exist within the church or elsewhere.  Local senior citizens
could not recall who was buried in this cemetery either
through their own knowledge or that of others.
 
 
NOTATIONS
 
The cemetery and church are on 1 2/7 acres deeded 15
September 1880 to the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South.  No longer is the cemetery used as a burial
site.

Mary Tayloe's marker is broken into at least two pieces.
The exact spot of this marker may not be the burial
location.  Several older members (deceased by the time of
the update) of the Powellsville community believe that the
structure added to the rear of the original church building
was built over several graves, not an uncommon happening for
rural churches to do.

Several senior citizens (deceased by 2010) in the community
recall numerous wooden grave houses in this cemetery.  Over
time, the grave houses disintegrated and/or were destroyed. 
The graves never had any identifying markers.  Family
members and friends could always recall who was buried
where.  The information, however,  was not transmitted to
subsequent generations thus was lost.