Mecklenburg COUNTY, NC - CEMETERIES - Hough Road Cemetery
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Unknown cemetery - this cemetery is on Hough Road, off Arlington Church Road, 
on private property.  A neighbor told me her family always called it the 
"slave cemetery".  It is probably an early cemetery of Red Branch Missionary 
Baptist Church.  Very few graves are marked, even with fieldstones.   I don't 
know how many graves might be here, probably at least 25, maybe a lot more.  
It is extremely overgrown with periwinkle and trees.  New development has 
started on the outer edge of this cemetery, and some graves may have already 
been destroyed (it is very hard to tell this is a cemetery, and it is not 
marked on maps so far). 

The only marked graves we found:   

Amy Oliver  died 1882   (scratched on stone) 

Oisa Julia   daug. Of Celia Baxter    born Sept. 18, 1891    died May 4, 1892  
(this is an actual tombstone, with a footstone with her initials) 

Turzie    wife of Eli Hinson  born Aug. 27, 1826   died Dec. 17, 1896 
  She was a good woman, saved by grace. 

(Eli Hinson founded Arlington Baptist Church, across the street, and he and 
his wife are buried there with one marker.  This may have been her marker 
before it was replaced at his death with one for both of them.)