Cleveland County, NC - Cook Memorial Gardens ************************************************ 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 COOK MEMORIAL GARDENS Original site of Faith Baptist Cemetery Cleveland County, NC Cook Memorial Gardens was originally the cemetery at Faith Baptist Church. It was renamed in honor of the first minister. It is located on the Dravo Road South of Shelby,NC. The Church has relocated and only the Cemetery remains at this, the orginal location. The Cemetery is in good shape and still used. To get there from Shelby, take highway 18 south and follow to the Mt Sinai Church road. Turn right onto Mt Sinai church road (Caution Light here). Follow Mt Sinai church road to the Dravo road. Turn Left and bear right onto the Dravo road. The cemetery will be on the right about 1.5 -2 miles. I did the survey on August 27, 2011 and I started at the grave right behind the cemetery marker at the front of the cemetery. THE SURNAMES BENTON, BOLIN, BOONE, BOWEN, BOWERS, BROWN, CAUSBY, COOK, COOPER, CHILDERS, DOVER, EMORY, EPLEY, GARNER, GIBSON, GOODMAN, GRIFFIN, HAMRICK, HUGES, HURDT, HURDY, MARTIN, MCSWAIN, MORGAN, MULLINAX, NORMAN, OLSON, OWENS, PHILBECK, RAYLE, RECTOR, SPARKS, SMITH, TESSENER, THOMAS, TURNER, WALKER, WEAVER, WHITE, WILLIAMS, WILKIE, WILSON, WRAY Marker at front of cemetery reads: *Cook Memorial Gardens* *Original Site of* *Faith Baptist Church* *Organized October 1952* *By Rev. Marvin B. Cook* Goodman, James Arnold December 20, 1927 November 10, 1999 WW II McSwain, N. Irvin July 25, 1933 January 10, 2011 McSwain, Marilyn H. March 27, 1938 ---- Walker, Ronn R. June 8, 1949 ---- Walker, Shirley B. Corriveau September 28, 1952 December 16, 2009 Rector, Earl Dean November 23, 1922 August 9, 2008 WW II Rector, Junaita Howe may 26, 1928 ---- Cook, Rev. Marvin B. c1908 c1978 Cook, Mariem c1911 c1998 Norman, Broadus L. September 12, 1920 July 25, 1982 Norman, Doris H. November 6, 1917 ---- Dover, James E. c 921 c1984 Dover, Ella Mae c1928 ---- Wilson, Brenda S. December 4, 1954 March 5, 2001 Emory, Dewitt October 20, 1922 August 17, 1969 Emory, Ruby Hayes August 5, 1927 ---- Martin, Boyd Franklin April 31, 1911 October 11, 1986 Martin, Matti P. April 20, 1912 November 19, 1988 Huges, J.C. August 26, 1923 December 23, 2002 Huges, Thelma M. June 9, 1934 ---- Wray, Mary Frances February 24, 1957 March 9, 2010 Temp Marker Griffin, Beulah Ann March 9, 1940 October 19, 2010 Griffin, Marshall Eugene September 13, 1939 ---- Married Sep 28, 1959 Owens, Roger D. February 24, 1946 ---- Owens, Louis Kathryn August 22, 1947 ---- Martin, Betty T. December 27, 1937 ---- Martin, David F. October 13, 1932 July 5, 2008 Griffin, Mary Sue Bradley December 12, 1903 September 25, 1978 Griffin, John Daniel July 12, 1902 December 10, 1989 Griffin, Ed Clingman August 25, 1923 December 15, 1974 Griffin, Margie Ellen October 25, 1922 ---- Griffin, Betty Jo October 28, 1956 July 1, 1978 Brown, May G. April 28, 1944 October 22, 1993 Wilkie, Edgar H. February 17, 1951 April 11, 1963 Hamrick, Graham Jr. May 21, 1931 March, 1999 Korea Tessener, Curtis L. January 13, 1935 ---- Tessener, Laura J. August 9, 1935 ---- Tessener, Curtis L. August 2, 1954 August 3, 1954 Mullinax, Julis David November 21, 1986 Infant Hurdy, John Junior March 16, 1929 January 31, 1990 Korea Hurdy, Pauline E. February 6, 1933 November 1, 2003 Childers, David L. September 6, 1971 June 18, 1995 Childers, Christopher Michael June 21, 1973 May 20 1979 Benton, Winfred June 16, 1919 April 17, 1939 WW II Garner, John Lee “Johnson” March 1, 1969 October 1, 1997 Cooper, John M. January 12, 1924 April 27, 1975 Cooper , Elsie Hill January 5, 1927 February 24, 1994 Rayle, Daniel L. March 20, 1953 June 5, 1983 Benton, Kennth O. July 10, 1962 June 27, 1993 Benton, Mary Ellen Paige September 5, 1925 May 22, 2007 Hurdt, Carolyn H. June 10, 1937 October 25, 2010 Thomas, Donald Ray July 6, 1951 October 4, 2007 Childers, D. Lorene June 24, 1922 ---- Childers, Reedie February 9, 1915 November 27, 2003 Weaver, Janice E. “Jan” July 22, 1951 ---- Weaver, David L. December 22, 1948 November 8, 2003 Vietnam Olson, Rev. N.W. "Jim" December 8, 1950 March 8, 2000 Bowen, Edna Russ September 28, 1900 May 30, 1988 Bowen, Horace June 27, 1902 April 22, 1972 Childers, Barbara Ann October 17, 1940 January 25, 1997 Bowen, Junie Bell “Granny” June 2, 1911 September 10, 1999 Bowen, William Glenn June 14, 1922 September 14, 2004 Epley, Belinda Benton August 13, 1951 February 27, 2005 Wray, Matthew Stephen September 13, 1990 September 13, 1990 Turner, Marvin Bill December 25, 1925 April 9, 1991 Turner, Jeanette January 7, 1925 ---- Bolin, Robert Lee May 23, 1934 September 14, 1963 Bowen, Reece D. November 24, 1947 March 8, 1968 Bowen, Kenneth R. June 22, 1963 March 14, 1967 s/o Kenneth & Louise Bowen, Kenneth Flay February 22, 1944 December 12, 1977 Boone, Charles Edward September 26, 1946 April 23, 1995 Dover, Sherrill David September 26, 1946 April 22, 1995 Morgan, Dennis E. August 17, 1946 April 16, 2005 Morgan, Lillie M. March 10, 1950 ---- Morgan, Denise Ann September 27, 1968 February 21, 2006 Hamrick, Margie Mullinax July 7, 1944 ---- Hamrick, Bobby D. July 1, 1941 January 22, 2004 Mullinax, Viola D. October 2, 1919 December 12, 1985 Mullinax, Floyd June 1, 1914 June 24, 2004 Mullinax, Charles Lee August 17, 1937 October 10, 2002 Mullinax, Eddie Lee July 21, 1964 October 20, 1984 Sparks, Thelma R. c1925 c1995 Mullinax, Flossie H. November 25, 1906 April, 26, 1979 White, Brenda Ann August 11, 1975 Infant Bolin, John Eugene October 20, 1957 October 23 , 1977 Bolin, Steve Lee July 25, 1953 March 9, 1977 Owens, Rev. Wilber February 17, 1924 May 31, 1994 Owens , Ruth E. May 11, 1926 ---- Williams, Ruth W. July 2, 1915 March 27, 1996 Wallace, Stewart M. May 3, 1968 July 7, 1983 Causby, Wayne E. c1963 c1995 Melissa O. c1969 ---- White, Kenneth R. June 27, 1949 September 7, 1998 White, Dorothy M. June 4, 1942 January 25, 2001 White , Fred Bonnie August 21, 1905 February 7, 1970 WW II Mullinax, Lawrence A. April 16, 1928 ---- Mullinax, Pauline T. November 27, 1931 November 16, 2004 Bowen, Everette Yates November 17, 1935 November 22, 2006 Williams, Kenneth M. October 27, 1938 March 17, 2007 Williams, Martha S. June 29, 1949 ---- Smith, Pamela S. Williams April 15, 1964 March 17, 2008 Gibson, Dewey E. March 24, 1932 November 13, 2003 Gibson, Betty Queen June 12, 1937 May 11, 2002 Bolin, William Perry “Coot” November 24, 1925 April 11, 2002 Bolin, Leona Turner September 10, 1929 April 30, 2006 Philbeck, Sheila W. September 29, 1946 ---- Philbeck, Robert E. August 12, 1942 May 4, 1997 Bolin, Robert E. December 3, 1955 ---- Bolin, Robert C. “Robbie” January 1, 1986 March 4, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------