Lenoir County, NC - Caswell Cemetery Copy found at Heritage Place, Lenoir County Community College, Kinston, North Carolina - Vertical Caswell 03356-8. We thank the staff at LCC for their permission to copy selected documents from their files to place on the internet. It is requested that researchers give appropriate credit when using these documents. Permission to combine said documents together in printed form is not given. Newspaper article. No date. No Name of newspaper. Graves of 15 Tar Heels Identified Of the many distinguished 18th and 19th Century North Carolinians whose bones are interred in the much discussed Richard Caswell gravesite on the Goldsboro Highway, 15 have been identified. Mrs. W.T. Hines of 207 East King Street has in her possession a list of the persons buried in the Caswell graveyard which was given to her by Mrs. Sue Bond, granddaughter of Dallam Caswell, son of Richard Caswell, on April 2, 1914. The following graves are on the list: Richard Caswell born August 3, 1729 died November 10, 1789 Susan Caswell Gatlin died March 5, 1843 67 years of age Sarah C. Reavis died March 24, 1838 age 23 years daughter of John and S. Gatlin Lewis C. Desmond born April 19, 1812 died October 24, 1868 Joshua Desmond born November 26, 1827 "Here lies a good man" Eliza W. Desmond born September 1804 died September, 1844 granddaughter of Richard Caswell wife of Lewis Demond Mary E. Fonville born July 25, 1823 died April 18, 1900 daughter of Lewis and Eliza Desmond John Gatlin died June 20, 1830 age 67 years Walter Davenport died 1832 a native of Connecticut age 32 years Mary Catherine Chestnut died February 23, 1854 great granddaughter of Richard Caswell wife of J. Chestnut age 24 years Mary McIlwain first wife of Richard Caswell William Caswell Dallam Caswell Holland Caswell West daughter of Dallam Caswell wife of William B. West The list notes the unmarked graves of several children. Indisputable evidence as to the people buried in the several remaining graves has never been secured. Governor Caswell's grave was marked by the Masons in 1908. "Until then the only marker was one erected by nature--a giant oak tree, still standing." (The article had to have been printed in the newspaper prior to 1958, because there is a handwritten notation stating that Mrs. Waitman Thompson Hines (Leone Hardy) died December 4, 1958.) ______________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Carol Pridgen Martoccia - carolmartoccia@earthlink.net Copyright © 1999 ______________________________________________________________________