Cleveland County, NC - Allen Memorial Baptist Church Cemetery ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Michael Ervin ALLEN MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH Grover, Cleveland County, NC In Shelby take highway 74 bypass east. Approximately five miles out of Shelby you will cross Buffalo Creek. Two tenths of a mile past the bridge will be a traffic light. Turn right on Long Branch Road. Travel this road for about five miles and Allen Memorial Baptist will be on the right. I was there August 20, 2011 and I started in the north east corner of the cemetery. *THE SURNAMES* ALLEN, AYERS, BARRETT, BEATTY, BESS, BLACK, BOLIN, BOWEN, BRIDGES, CASH, COBB, COYLE, DAVIS, DIXON, FORTENBERRY,GARRETT, GILLIAM, GLADDEN, GOFORTH, GOINS, GOODWIN, GREEN, GREENE, HAMRICK, IDOL, JONES, LAIL, LEONHART, LOMENICK, MESSICK, MOORE, O’BRIEND, PRITCHARD, QUEEN, SHEPPARD, SNELLINGS, SPAKE, STONE, TESSENER, THOMAS, WEEKS, WELCH, WHISNANT, WHITWORTH, WRIGHT. Snellings, James P. November 23, 1873 October 10, 1959 Hamrick, Marvin May 12, 1924 June 26, 2007 Hamrick, Marjorie March 8, 1930 March 27, 1993 Barrett, Chris Edward ------ April 04, 1967 Coyle, Susan Blanton October 28, 1957 January 18, 1999 Goforth, Velma Spake October 27, 1922 March 3, 1950 w/o D.L. Tessener, Cleo C. December 29, 1872 April 26, 1965 Tessener, William M. June 24, 1872 December 8, 1948 Fortenberry, E. Clifford August 29, 1913 March 11, 1958 Fortenberry, M. Lizzie January 1, 1915 December 26, 1996 Bridges, Fairy Love June 26, 1892 February 24, 1963 Bridges, Fairess P. September 22, 1885 October 30, 1972 Allen, Betty H. November 16, 1930 ------ Allen, Billy G. October 24, 1932 August 3, 2002 Korea Allen, C. Elbert July 19, 1912 October 30, 1998 Allen, Blanche M. August 25, 1914 December 25, 1963 Allen, Benjamin F. February 23, 1883 February 12, 1959 Allen, Corrie Bell December 20, 1885 January 3, 1988 Allen, David Hoyle January 9, 1906 November 22, 1974 Allen, Darvin Monroe December 27, 1909 January 29, 1992 Allen, Gazzie Norman August 13, 1911 May 15, 1999 Black, Marty Dennis June 14, 1982 s/o Dennis & Vickie Welch, Ralph W. October 28, 1917 August 4, 1981 WW II Welch, Emma F. March 24, 1922 May 10, 1983 Fortenberry, Forrest G. No Dates Fortenberry, Bessie L. No Dates Gladden, Preston A. December 10, 1882 November 18, 1960 Gladden, Bertha W. September 30, 1893 November 15, 1960 Garrett, Nancy G. June 4, 1933 ------ Garrett, Harry Neal June 29, 1920 July 26, 1999 WW II Whitworth, Alonzo A. January 1, 1899 April 28, 1972 Whitworth, Gladys E. September 19, 1947 May 26, 1950 d/o A.A. Whitworth, Maggie L. Wright April 28, 1913 May 26, 1950 Leonhart, Everett M. February 15, 1930 May 26, 1950 Leonhart, Joyce Eileen Whitworth April 18, 1932 May 26, 1950 Wright, Bertha C. April 15, 1903 August 27, 1987 Wright, Dathia A. December 21, 1907 September 6, 1965 Wright, Edna W. November 5, 1912 December 10, 1979 Wright, James H. February 4, 1910 July 31, 1965 Whitworth, Julia Wright December 10, 1908 November 1, 1981 Whitworth, Erastus Zebulon March 18, 1893 March 31, 1979 Pritchard, Jim August 27, 1889 April 19, 1954 Pritchard, Dovie R. March 16, 1899 August 4, 1963 Bowen, Ray Gordon June 12, 1958 s/o Bobby & Betty Bowen,TimothyMark April 16, 1969 s/o Bobby & Betty Beatty, Mabel Ross July 29, 1931 ------ Beatty, Dwight Junior April 24, 1930 October 21, 1995 Queen, Norma W. April 4, 1948 ------ Queen, J. David November 16, 1942 May 25, 1968 Vietnam Fortenberry, Infant Son December 29, 1968 s/o M/M Carl Allen, Gerald E. Jr. Aug 23, 1968 Whitworth, William M. February 21, 1934 May 20, 1969 Korea Sheppard, Kathleen c1923 c1959 Sheppard, Fred c1913 c1986 Whitworth, Gene C. April 3, 1934 September 4, 2000 Whitworth, Catherine W. June 12, 1933 ------ Wright, Clarence Lawson ------ June 30, 2011 Unmarked Wright, Forest W. December 19, 1918 February 14, 1979 WW II Wright, Margie January 20, 1924 ------ Greene, Howell L. May 12, 1899 June 28, 1968 Greene, Lola H. October 6, 1897 May 28, 1963 Bess, Thomas Ken July 19, 1941 October 25, 1983 Beatty, Therman G. August 18, 1925 January 10, 1993 Beatty, Oree T. November 2, 1925 ------ Davis, Kaye Allen January 28, 1940 February 6, 1996 Davis Floyd D. October 26, 1945 ------ Allen, Kenneth J. January 17, 1939 November 4, 1967 Lail, Brady A. May 23, 1908 July 16, 1981 WW II Lail, Grathel A. December 20, 1907 ------ Idol, Julia Mildred May 21, 1966 Infant Whitworth, Brenda Bowen September 25, 1944 ------ Whitworth, James Leroy May 14, 1944 March 18, 2006 Bolin, Betty December 17, 1927 ------ Bolin, Carl January 10, 1921 April 14, 1998 Moore, Cathleen October 31, 1906 November 7, 1995 Moore, Grady July 2, 1904 March 9, 1981 Jones, Jennie Lou B. September 10, 1918 January 22, 1994 Jones, Garland G. February 7, 1916 April 9, 1973 WW II Bridges, Brenda J. Hamrick August 21, 1942 June 27, 2004 Bridges, Raye Junior April 7, 1932 August 24, 2006 Spake, Alma Pearl June 1, 1918 Decembe 24, 1980 Spake, Jessie Mae January 22, 1920 January 23, 1984 Spake, Margaret L. March 8, 1914 March 28, 1986 Spake, William R. September 12, 1909 April 9, 1970 Whisnant, Lee L. August 10, 1880 February 9, 1965 Whisnant, Alice H. June 8, 1886 April 20, 1963 Bridges, Horace F. May 25, 1901 November 18, 1972 Bridges, Beulah W. November 1, 1912 March 11, 2010 Davis, Essie Mae September 9, 1943 July 29, 2011 Temp Marker Lomenick, Mary F. February 13, 1922 December 15, 2010 Temp Marker Whitworth, Paul M. February 21, 1934 December 20, 1987 Stone, Ruth Ellen Todd August 2, ???? ------ Stone, Hubert Atkin March 7, 1926 August 19, 2006 Fortenberry, Michael Gene January 7, 1975 s/o Debbie & Harry Goins, Lanny Ray October 12, 1970 October 13, 1970 O’Brien, Joyce Barrett December 30, 1944 March 27, 1991 Cash, Rhonda Lee May 7, 1970 October 15, 1971 Dixon, Emogene Allen October 18, 1927 November 23, 2002 Dixon, Thomas Frank July 17, 1924 April 1, 2008 Bowen, Robert L. March 14, 1939 February 9, 1995 Wright, Thelma E. May 26, 1925 ------ Wright, Coleman E. February 10, 1920 December 18, 1991 Ayers, Bertha March 5, 1934 ------ Ayers, J.C. November 30, 1932 May 25, 1992 Ayers, Rita M. January 15, 1957 March 9, 1996 Green, Donna C. January 28, 1958 ------ Green, Ronald c. January 2, 1953 May 27, 2001 Unknown Old Temp Marker Goodwin, David C. August 10, 1924 July 22, 1989 Goodwin, Margaret B. September 17, 1927 ------ Goodwin, Patricia Ann February 2, 1946 Infant Bowen, Betty, Ann September 24, 1937 ------ Bowen, Bobby Gene January 24, 1933 July 12, 2003 Gilliam, Calvin March 20, 1952 November 25, 1963 Cobb, Dewey E. September 4, 1935 May 10, 1999 Weeks, Dave Foster c1889 c1995 Unmarked Thomas, Laura Ann December 29, 1969 October 7, 1996 d/o Gerald Allen Allen, Gerald E. December 6, 1943 ------ Allen, Carolyn L. October 26, 1950 ------ Davis, Randy Scott March 13, 1971 November 4, 2000 Allen, Kenneth Brent June 28, 1965 October 7, 2000 Messick, Brandon K. May 24, 1984 July 4, 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------