GUILFORD COUNTY, NC - CEMETERIES - First Presbyterian Church Cemetery
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Tombstones located in First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, 130 Summit Avenue, 
Greensboro, NC 27401-3004 (cemetery located directly behind the Greensboro 
Historical Museum Building, which was the First Presbyterian Baptist church 
from 1892-1903):

TOMB A
[four sided obelisk]
Side 1: 
"John Motley Morehead 
Born 
July 4th 1796 
Died 
Aug 27th 1866."
Side 2: 
"Ann Eliza 
wife of 
J.M. Morehead 
Born Oct 15th 1804 
Died July 29th 1868." 
Side 3: 
"Severed on Earth, 
we yet shall 
meet again."
Side 4: [blank]

[Notes: Morehead was governor of North Carolina 1841-1842.  
Wife's maiden name was "Lindsay"]

TOMB B
[Memorial stone]
"Mother
Her children shall arise up 
and call her blessed."
[Note: Unclear if this memorial stone next to John Motley Morehead's tombstone 
is truly the grave of his mother, Obedience Motley.]

TOMB C
[memorial stone]
"Father
Mark of the perfect man
[2nd line indistinct]"  
[Note: Unclear if this memorial stone next to John Motley Morehead's tombstone 
is truly the grave of his father John Morehead]

TOMB D
[headstone]
"Peter G. Evans, 
Colonel 
in the Confederate Army 
died of wounds 
in Washington city 
Died July 24th 1863 
Aged 41 years."
[bronze plaque at foot, more recent]
"Pete G. Evans, 
North Carolina 
Colonel 5 Regt NC Cav 
Confederate States Army 
1822  1863."
[note: my copy of Colonel Evans' military records state he was buried in Rock 
Creek Cemetery in Washington DC, so he must have been moved to Greensboro at 
some point.]

TOMB E
[headstone]
"Ann Eliza Evans XXXXXXXXX Born Feb XX 1821 Died Oct XX 1876."
[Note: Ann Eliza's maiden name was Morehead, daughter of John Motley Morehead 
and Ann Eliza Lindsay, according to John Bennett Boddie's "Historical Southern 
Families" v. III, Pacific Coast Publishers, Redwood City, CA, 1959.]

TOMB F
"XXXXXXXXX son of P.G. & A.E. Evans"

TOMB G
"Louise P. 
daughter of 
P.G. and A.E. Evans 
Born July 12 1851
Died Sept XX 1861
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

TOMB H
"John Morehead
Son of 
P.G. & A.E. Evans
Born 
April 20 1857
Died
Dec 26 1862

TOMB I:
"In
Memory of
Peter Chalmers
Son of 
Peter G &
A E Evans
Born
April 29 1857
Died
July 10 1858
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
[Note: the birthdates of John Morehead Evans and Peter Chalmers Evans are not 
typos.  But one of the tombs must be mistaken since the births are within 
three months of each other].


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