Vance County, NC - Anderson Paschall Cemetery

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ANDERSON PASCHALL CEMETERY

Transcribed from Historical Records Survey by WPA, conducted 1937, of pre-1914 
cemetery markers in Vance County, North Carolina; only markers erected prior 
to 1914 were recorded, hence all markers in a cemetery are not necessarily shown;
filmed by NC Archives; available as LDS Film # 0882940
NOTE: all directions and notations of condition are original, as noted in 1940;

Compiled: 1937 Historical Records Survey of North Carolina

ANDERSON PASCHALL Cemetery
Vance Co, Henderson, NC
Worker: John J. Adams

Located: on Henderson-Oxford Hwy. About 50 feet and in front of the present 
home of Hewitt B. Hicks, on the farm of Mollie P. Parham, present owner. Seven 
and a half miles west of Henderson, NC. 

In fair condition, few bushes and weeds.

Harris, Keziah Eral;  born ___ died 1849; wife of George Harris, age 95 years
Howell, John J.;  2-8-1820 d. 2-26-1881
Howell Lucy T.;  b __ d. 1-7-1856; wife of John T. Howell, age 20 yrs, 1 mo. 13 days
Howell, Sarah Elizabeth;  b. 4-24-1839 d. 3-24-1911 Age 71 urs., 11 mos. 
Parham, Mary Tatum;  b. 11-11-1813 d. 11-21-1878 Married April 9, 1839 

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NOTES:

There appears to be a typing error in the name Keziah "Eral" Harris. I believe 
this should be Keziah Earl Harris.

The following excerpt is from the book, "Sketches of William Hicks, Abner Hicks, 
Jasper Hicks, George Harris, James Crews, John Earl and Something of Their 
Descendants," by Thurston Titus Hicks, privately published in 1926 in Henderson, NC.

page15-16:

"About two miles northwestward from the Hicks, now Cozart place, which for 100 
years was known as "Red Garden," and then and since named by my father "White 
Oak Villa," was the home of George Harris. In my childhood this George Harris 
place showed no sign of human habitation. The untrimmed cedar trees were so 
thick over its graveyard that a rabbit might find difficult in getting through 
them, and butt his head against the headstone of ordinary rock, marked on top 
"1820" and on the side with the initials "G.H." This headstone and the spring 
and a "Balm of Gilead tree" are still there. I saw them on August 3rd, 1926.

Keziah Earl Harris, wife of George Harris, died at the age of 95, in 1849. 
Her body is buried at the Anderson Paschal graveyard where Ollie H. Parham now 
lives on the hill in front of the residence of H.B. Hicks."