Greene County, NC - Whitley Cemetery

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WHITLEY CEMETERY

This cemetery was not included in the Cemetery Survey

The Whitley Family Cemetery at "Whitley Place" was located in Greene Co. on 
route 123 N in a field between Maury Ballpark Street and Rory Drive, and .2 
mile east of the 123 N highway. The Whitley Family Cemetery was moved from 
that location on February 6, 2002 to Greenwood Cemetery in Greenville, N.C. 
by Whitley descendants. 

The Whitley Family Cemetery included the following graves: 

1. Jordan Whitley 
Father of William Whitley 
Age: 55 years 
Died: April 1862 
Devoted husband of Rachel Whitley 

2. William Whitley 
Father of Lula S. & Cordelia Whitley 
b. Sept. 16, 1832 
d. Jan. 15, 1865 
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(Note: Daughter Lula Susan Whitley, b. Aug. 23, 1862, married Louis Allen Mayo 
of Pitt County on Dec. 20, 1886. She died of influenza in Pitt Co. on Sept. 16, 
1918. Her grave in Pitt Co. has also been relocated to Greenwood Cemetery 
Greenville, NC.)

3. Harriet Rasberry Whitley Sylivant 
Wife of William Whitley 
b. Aug 2, 1836 
d. Aug 3, 1873 
Daughter of Benjamin & Cordelia Rasberry 
(Note: After William Whitley's untimely death in 1865, Harriet Rasberry Whitley 
remarried to John B. Sylivant and died in child birth in 1873. John Sylivant chose 
to bury Harriet beside her first husband, William Whitley, at "Whitley Place.") 

4. Nancy Ann Cordelia Whitley Ormond 
Wife of James William Ormond 
b. June 3, 1858 
d. July 28, 1918 
(Note: Husband James William Ormond, was the son of Merritt Ormond and Eliza B. 
Hooker. James and Cordelia Ormond had children: Lilly, Harriet, William M. and 
Daniel J. Ormond.) 

5. Unmarked grave of child of Cordelia Whitley and James W. Ormond 

6. Unnamed girl 
b. Oct. 26, 1887 
d. Oct. 26, 1887 
Only lived 10 hours 
Daughter of Louis Allen and Lula Susan Whitley Mayo 

7. Lula Maybelle Mayo 
b. June 20, 1893 
d. June 20, 1893 
Daughter of Louis Allen and Lula Susan Whitley Mayo 
(Note: Other children of Louis Allen Mayo and Lula Susan Whitley Mayo were buried 
on the Mayo Farm in Pitt Co., NC, and have also been moved to Greenwood Cemetery 
in Greenville, NC.

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