Mitchell County, NC - J.M. Francis II Cemetery

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J.M. Francis II Cemetery 

Location: Mitchell Co, Buladean, NC., on Tom Creek, off Highway 226 
Accessibility:  Difficult. One can only walk to this cemetery and is 
overgrown, up a hill and hard to get to. 

 1. J.M. Francis Nov. 15, 1858  - March 18, 1920   
    (Note: This is John Millard Francis II son of J.M. Francis I and the 
    father of Glen, George, Johnny, Thomas & Lizzie, Hester, Alice, Lydia 
    and Bertha) 
    (Note: There is a mason symbol on his headmarker) 
    (Reads): "My dear children meet me in heaven." 

 2. (Wife) 
    Rebecca Francis Oct. 4, 1860 - Feb. 26, 1946   
    (Note: She is the daughter of Thomas Street II & Mary P. Garland and 
    sister to Garrett, Lydia, Elisha, John M, Milbern, Gutridge L, Phebe 
    and Buanvistia) 

 3. Bertha Francis daughter of J.M. & Rebecca Francis Dec. 28, 1903-Nov. 2, 1915 
    (Note: Died when a lantern caught her dress on fire at age 12.  There is a 
    family picture of her parents and 4 older sisters and 4 brothers made the 
    day of her burial) 

 4. Fient Bennett (no dates, half brother to Mary, daughter of Vian Arrowood) 

 5. Norey Freeman (no dates, half sister to Mary Glen's wife, daughter of 
    Vian Arrowood 

 6. Sid Melton (no dates, half sister to Glen's wife Mary, son of Vine Arrwood) 

 7. John Arrowood  May 15, 1888 - April 8, 1936  (May be the husband of Vine 
    Arrowood 

 8. Lissie Murphy July 28, 1886 - April 31, 1964 

 9. Hettie Murphy (married to Clifford Buchanan, children Woodrow, Nat, 
    Howard & Bessie) 

10. Matthew Francis, stillborn infant son, born May 28, 1918,  (Infant of 
    Glen Francis - marked with a plain slab of rock) 


In 2006 the JM Francis I. house is still standing and the cemetery is on the 
hill behind it. The location of the cemetery cannot be seen from the road. 

(Notes made by Linda Francis, Summer of 1972. Johnny Francis III traveled 
with me this day to show me his father and mother's grave and provided the 
notes I have added) 

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