Durham County, NC - Weatherspoon Cemetery ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ July 6, 2005 Weatherspoon Cemetery Hwy. #54 (S. Miami Blvd. SR 1959) Durham, NC N 35°52'34.1" W 78°51'02.8" The cemetery is located between Emperor Drive and Hopson Steet in the 5600 block of S. Miami Blvd. on the southeast corner of Hopson St., facing S. Miami Blvd. close to the Durham-Wake County line. There is a spot to park adjacent to the grassy knoll where the cemetery is mostly hidden among trees and brush. This is an abandoned cemetery on a small parcel of land which sits on the corner of 2 busy roads and next to a commercial site accessed by Emperor Drive. I transcribed from existing headstones all that was readable Dupree, W. R., b. 12 Nov 1858, d. 5 May 1926 Green, Mabel F., b. 26 Aug 1886, d. 2 Jul 1901, dau. o. Hugh & Ella Green Johnson, Etta, b. 11 Apr 1863, d. 1 Dec 1946, w. o. N. L. Green Johnson, N. L., b. 26 Nov 1860, d. 24 Mar 1956 O'Briant, Edwin L. b. 7 Jul 1893, d. 4 Apr 1894 O'Briant, Eva Caroline Dupree, b. 22 Mar 1867, d. 13 Nov 1940, w. o. W. H. O'Briant O'Briant, W. H., b. 16 Dec 1866, d. 9 Apr 1944 Stone, Earl, b. 1892, d. 1893 Stone, Ida, b. 12 Mar 1861, d. 24 Mar 1922, w. o. W. D. Stone Stone, W. D., b. 30 Sep 1857, d. 25 Nov 1919 Tilley, Floyd Mangum, b. 2 Apr 1889, d. 18 Sep 1898, s. o. J. L. & M. E. Tilley Weatherspoon, Martin Luther, b. ??, d. 9 Jun 1862, age 13, s. o. R. T. & Sarah Weatherspoon Weatherspoon, Metilda Eliza, b. ??, d. 16 Aug 1865, dau. o. R. T. & Sarah Weatherspoon (broken headstone) Weatherspoon, R. T., b. Jan 1804, d. 25 Nov 1872 Weatherspoon, Sarah A., b. ??, d. 24 Jul 1882, w. o. R. T. Weatherspoon (part of a stone) Weatherspoon, Sarah Angiline, b.??, d. 28 May 1862, age 9, dau. o. R. T. & Sarah Weatherspoon (broken stone) Broken headstone next to Etta Green, unreadable Small headstone under large bush, unreadable One of these headstones may mark the grave of P.H. Barbee, b. 1826, d. 1891, thought to be buried here ______________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Shirley Olson - shirley32olson@yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________________