HAYNES HIGH CEMETERY
            Welches Creek Township, Whiteville, Columbu County, NC


Submitted by Dave High, March 1998
North Carolina, Columbus County, NC
All rights reserved, 1998.

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Documentation prepared by David B. High for the Columbus County, NC GenWeb
site, Jan 14, 1998. [Added comments are in brackets.]

This is a small family cemetery, located in the woods east of Red Hill Road
(SR1700). It was created when Haynes High's wife Fannie died of smallpox
after nursing the slave Pompey, who also died of the disease. Victims of
this disease could not be carried to Whiteville and buried in the cemetery
there. I am calling this the Haynes High cemetery because there is at least
one additional High family cemetery further up Red Hill Road.

The cemetery was surveyed by David B. High and A. Harold Smith in the Fall
of 1988. At that time, only five of the known eleven gravesites were marked
by stone monuments. We had markers made for the other six graves and
installed them. Temporary markers had disappeared or been moved, and
positions for the new markers were approximated.



01 Sarah COUNCIL High, 1832-1890 [Second wife of Haynes High]

02 Haynes HIGH, Nov 10, 1810--Apr 30, 1887 [Son of Jacob High, 1775-1842? &
Ann Shipman?]

03 Frances BURNEY High, 1819-1862 [First wife of Haynes High, mother of
three sons]

04 Jacob HIGH, 6/1862?, 3/11/1930 [ Third son of Haynes High, Wife was
Margaret Elizabeth Pierce; Ten children, seven of whom reached adulthood]

05 Leander HIGH, 1896-1898 [ Infant son of Jacob & Margaret Pierce High]

06 Sarah Cordelia HIGH, 1886-1887 [Infant daughter of Jacob & Margaret
High]

07 Jefferson Haynes HIGH, 1884, 4/30/1887 [Infant son of Jacob & Margaret
High]

08 Bertha May HIGH, 5/10/1901, 3/4/1911 [Daughter of Charles & Rebecca
"Morrie" King High]

09 Morrie [Rebecca KING] , 12/1865, 3/2/1935 [Wife of Charles High]

10 Charles HIGH, 12/1858, 3/18/1930, [Four choldren, three of whom reached
adulthood; same stone as #9]

11 Lou BRIGHT, ? [Sister of "Morrie" Rebecca King]

Information on this cemetery, called "High Cemetery", in the publication
"They're Buried in Our Past; Columbus County, NC; 1808-1983" by Anita W.
Barfield and Kay W. Duncan, dated December, 1983 (2-4) is only partially
correct. Margaret Elizabeth "Mag" Pierce High, wife of Jacob "Jake" High,
is buried in Whiteville Memorial Cemetery, with her son Henry Charles High
and his family; she did not wish to be buried in the private cemetery.

                                 
              ©1998 Jerome Smith, Columbus County Coordinator
         Columbus County, North Carolina, USA All rights reserved.


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