Old Brackett Town Cemetery - McDowell County, NC - Cemteries Submitted for use in the USGenWeb Project Archives by Bill Floyd (wdfloyd@rfci.net) OLD BRACKETT TOWN CEMETERY McDowell County, NC By W. D. Floyd To get to this cemetery from Highway NC 226 at Dysartsville, NC go south on Vein Mountain Road for about 4.4 miles and find Brackett Town Road bearing off to the east and follow it for about 3 to 3.5 miles. The driveway to the cemetery is on the left a few hundred after you cross the little one lane bridge. The driveway has a small section of picket fence on each side just as you turn off of Brackett Town Road. This driveway ends at the cemetery. This is a cemetery with both African-American and white interned here. The African-American is the first part that you see and is very well maintained. The white graves are all in the woods and all grown up and not maintained at all. There are probably over a hundred graves either unmarked or marked with field stones in the black section and 40-50 unmarked or marked with field stones in the white part. The white part is so scattered out and grown over that it is impossible to tell how many are there. I was there March 25, 1998 and started on the east end of the African-American section. THE SURNAMES BATTS, BRACKETT, COLWILL, FLEMING, HALYBURTON, HARDY, HICKS, HOOPER, LONG, O誰EAL, OWENS, POWELL, RUTHERFORD, SPROUSE, WEAVER, WEST, WILKERSON, WITHROW This first part is African-American. Owens, Anna H. c1895 c1993 Temp. Unknown Wilkerson, Nancy c1808 c1914 Wilkerson, Geo. c1844 c1930 Powell, Etta O. January 11, 1904 April 6, 1977 Fleming, Ola O. May 30, 1911 Owens, Lillie November 11, 1881 July 16, 1953 Owens, J. Dailey November 5, 1879 October 31, 1943 Owens, Joseph B. January 14, 1839 November 20, 1923 Owens, Martha E. June 14, 1850 June 20, 1910 w/o Joseph 2 Unknowns Owens, Mattie H. August 27, 1885 January 24, 1939 3 Unknowns Unreadable Hooper, Carl Eugene, Sr. May 1, 1930 February 6, 1995 Korea Hooper, Helen January 27, 1891 September 21, 1958 WW I Hooper, Nancy Serilda May 11, 1868 June 28, 1948 Hooper, Alfred J. April 10, 1862 April 20, 1907 Hooper, Charlie March 23, 1887 December 10, 1907 Hooper, Infant December 21, 1929 s/o Gertrude Hooper, Harvey July 16, 1899 May 31, 1941 Unknown O誰eal, Infant No Dates i/o Gus & Matilda O誰eal, Matilda May 23, 1888 May 29, 1930 Long, Ethel O誰eal January 2, 1911 April 21, 1938 O誰eal, Augustus H. October 19, 1890 February 28, 1948 Owens, Bynum Elijah February 3, 1896 February 28, 1983 WW I O誰eal, Carrie Owens December 24, 1908 August 3, 1982 Unknown Owens, Barbara Lucinda c1871 c1966 Temp. 13 Unknowns O誰eal, Ella No Dates 9 Unknowns Rutherford, Francis G. c1944 c1946 About 20 Unknowns Owens, Jessie L. January 2, 1883 January 24, 1939 Withrow, Emily Owens May 10, 1853 January 6, 1928 Owens, James No Date July 12, 1912 12 Unknowns Owens, Roland September 13, 1896 March 27, 1938 WW I Hardy, Arthur G. October 18, 1892 July 2, 1933 WW I 9 Unknowns Hooper, Lula Edna July 13, 1909 November 8, 1981 Hooper, Arthur L. April 12, 1932 April 6, 1974 Hooper, Noah R. July 19, 1902 August 28, 1985 Hooper, William A. July 25, 1853 May 18, 1939 Hooper, Mary L. August 24, 1870 September 10, 1939 24 Unknowns Owens, Matthew Henry c1904 c1974 Owens, George c1875 c1948 Owens, Mary c1899 c1958 Owens, Roy No Date c1912 Owens, Mandy No Date c1912 Unknown Owens, Lucinda 56 years March 30, 1871 w/o Wm. Owens 25 Unknowns Owens, Annie T. March 31, 1896 March 27, 1983 End the Black Section and Start The White Section. Unknown Halyburton, John Meroney 9m,16d July 15, 1854 s/o WB & SJ Halyburton, Martha Winefred 15 years December 24, 1848 Halyburton, Lucy J. 3y,3m,2d June 28, 1839 d/o JC & MH Halyburton, Sarah F. 1y,1m,6d June 26, 1839 d/o JC & MH Halyburton, John C. 40y,10m,2d May 23, 1841 Hicks, William 48 years December 30, 1846 Brackett, B. No Dates Batts, Sintha No Dates Brackett, Elizabeth No Dates Brackett, B. W. Co. B 22 NC Inf CSA No Dates Brackett, Nancy A. 38 years October 25, 1858 Brackett, Albert L. June 19, 1874 November 2, 1876 s/o WA & E Brackett, Johnnie November 13, 1873 December 30, 1879 s/o WA & E West, Reuben 75 years January 9, 1870 Weaver, Elizabeth Eleanor August 10, 1841 July 18, 1849 Colwill, Franklin 10y,6m,3d June 30, 1852 Sprouse, Infants c1895 Long, Charlie c1905 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ These pages and information thereon are not to be reproduced in any form for profit or distribution without the permission of W. D. Floyd ｩ Copyright 1997-1998 =============================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogy information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. 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