Wake County, NC - Airport Road Community Cemetery ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 7 Sep 03 I walked the cemetery and recorded from the tombstones. Shirley Olson, glolson@attglobal.net Airport Road Community Cemetery (formerly called Sorrell's Grove Cemetery, listed as Sorrel's Grove in GNIS), Morrisville, Cedar Fork Twp., WAKE County, NC. WAKE Co. land records show 1.12 acres, currently owned by James W. Marcom. Property description is "Property of Sorrell Grove Baptist Church Cemetery." Lat: N 35° 51'18" Long: W 78°49'32" Dir: From the intersection of the Cary Pkwy. & Hwy. #54 (Chapel Hill Rd.), Cary, NC.: Take Hwy. #54 west 2.6 miles to Airport Blvd. (SR # 3015) which runs only northwest. Go 1.2 miles to the cemetery, clearly visible on the left (nw) side of the road. (Airport Blvd. continues and crosses Interstate #40 at Exit # 284 less than a mile ahead.) Description: You can drive through the cemetery. It is neatly mowed and well kept. There are an unusually large number of footstone size markers, mostly without dates, some with full names, some with partial names. I thought at first they were place holders until I viewed a number of these stones with "baby" and the surname, and can only surmise that these are being used instead of headstones as grave markers. At the foot of the graves that are marked with headstones there are the customary footstones, either initialed or with "mother" or "father" inscribed. At one grave there was a funeral home marker and next to it a footstone sized tablet with the name of the interred. Only the funeral home marker held dates. Since burials have occurred as recently as 2002, the cemetery is still in use and there appears to be room for more burials. Aharon, Kathy, no dates Aharon, Scott, no dates Armstrong, baby, no dates Arnold, Nannie Sorrell, no dates Barbee, Bessie B., b. 9 Jan 1890, d. 21 Dec 1965 Barbee, Haywood A., b. 24 Apr 1912, d. 12 Apr 1992 Barber, Ada G., b. 14 Apr 1891, d. 11 Dec 1960 Barber, Clyde W., b. 29 Sep 1912, d. 27 Dec 1980, Tec 3 US Army WW 2 Barber, John E., b. 23 Mar 1885, d. 23 Oct 1963 Barnhill, Glennie, no dates Barnhill, Rebecca, no dates Buckner, Doug, Jr., b. 1965, d. 1984 Burgess, Maggie, b. 6 Jul 1856, d. 23 Jan 1943 Burgess, Martha, b. 16 May 1930, d. ???? Burgess, Nannie, b. 11 May 1889, d. 19 Jan 1949 Burgess, Rufus N., 5 Feb 1932, d. 29 Oct 1937, s. o. N.H. & Elsie Burgess Burgess, Sidney M., b. 16 Jan 1904, d. 22 Jul 1976 Burgess, Gracie R., b. 14 Apr 1912, d. 28 Sep 1987 Burgess, Willie A., 22 Jul 1893, d. 5 Apr 1974, Pvt US Army WW 1 Burnette, Lena Watkins, b. 6 Nov 1930, d. 22 Jun 1999, "sister" Cameron, Gaynelle F., b. 21 Apr 1954, d. 22 Mar 1998 Carlino, Sandra D., no dates Carlino, Sherry H., no dates Carroll, Lillie D., no dates Catlette, Charles J., b. 5 Jun 1930, d. 25 May 1994, shared with Martha Burgess, b. 16 May 1930 Choplin, Coy G., b. 13 Sep 1922, d. 12 Jul 1994 Choplin, Virginia K., b. 2 Jul 1928, d. ????, w.o. Coy Choplin, m. 24 Sep 1950 Churchill, Calvin, no dates Collins, Melvin A., b. 19 Sep 1915, d. 4 Oct 1994 Copeland, Beatrice T., b. 30 Sep 1921, d. 7 Jan 1998 Copeland, Hulon D., b. 17 Apr 1910, d. 25 Feb 1983, T/Sgt US Army WW 2 Culler, James R., b. 13 Oct 1906, d. 7 Mar 1980 Culler, Wanda E., b. 25 Sep 1933, d. ????, w.o. James R. Culler, m. 7 Aug 1953 Danenberg, Danny R., b. 27 Feb 1945, d. 21 Dec 1999 Davis, Carey Calvin, b. 4 May 1924, d. 16 Dec 1988, Sn USN WW 2 Davis, Clyde Boyd, b. 21 Dec 919, d. 25 Jun 1988, Pvt USMC WW 2 Davis, Floyd, no dates Davis, John C., b. 25 Nov 1884, d. 12 Dec 1964 Davis, Lula Dunn, b. 15 May 1889, d. 23 Mar 1969 Davis, Oliver Owen, b. 27 Nov 1895, d. 5 Sep 1978 Davis, Robena McLeod, b. 30 Jul 1920, d. 12 Feb 2001 Deal, Brittany, no dates Dunn, Willie L., b. 1897, d. 1975 Ellis, Clayborn, no dates Ellis, Vickie D., no dates Evangelist, Claudia R., b. 31 Aug 1927, d. ???? Evangelist, William P., b. 2 Mar 1917, d. 12 Jul 1984, US Army Fish, Douglas Henry, b. 21 Jul 1948, d. 25 Nov 1948 George, James Coy, b. 27 Jun 1904, d. 2 Jul 1952 George, Maggie O'Neal, b. 14 Aug 1906, d. 9 Mar 1998 Greenwood, baby, no dates Hammack, Clara G., b. 18 Jan 1913, d. 27 Sep 1963 Hammack, Clyde H., b. 20 Nov 1904, d. 21 May 1985 Hicks, Gary, no dates Hicks, Jewelie, no dates Jenkins, Callie, no dates Jenkins, Dewey, no dates Jenkins, Elizabeth, no dates Jenkins, James, no dates Jenkins, James Luther, b. 5 Ocy 1938, d. 23 Dec 1988 Jenkins, Jessie, b. 1900, d. 1952 Jenkins, Jimmy, b. 26 Feb 1901, d. 7 Jun 1970 Jenkins, Lillie, b. 13 Sep 1906, d ???? Jenkins, Mertie D., b. 24 May 1886, d. 24 Apr 1962 Johnson, Barbara Lee, b. 10 Aug 1940, d. 26 Jan 1991 Johnson, Bertha W., b. 1 Mar 1908, d. 22 Oct 1972 Johnson, Everett C., b. 18 Nov 1894, d. 24 Aug 1965 Johnson, Everett C., Jr., b. 20 Feb 1929, d. 5 Jan 1991 Johnson, Katherine L., b. 16 Oct 1918, d. 24 Jun 1998 Johnson, Sarah Rebecca, b. 29 Sep 1930, d. ???? Johnson, Tyree G., b. 29 Sep 1916, d. ???? Jones, Ruth, b. 1914, d. 1989 Kerr, Betty, no dates Kerr, Bobby, no dates King, Rebecca Sorrell, no dates Lane, Larry F., b. 23 Mar 1957, d. 8 Aug 1974 Lassater, Doris, b. 1923, d. 1972 Luquire, Catherine, b. / d. 10 Feb 1916, dau. o. Eugene & Cleo Luquire Luquire, Jesses Thomas, b. 5 Aug 1900, d. 1 Dec 1900 (Jesses is the name on stone) Luquire, Joseph A., b. 1867, d. 1911 Luquire, Mary E., b. 1869, d. 1937 Luquire, Maudie Annie, b. 6 Oct 1897, d. 1 Jun 1898 Marcom, no dates Marcom, no dates Marcom, Frances T., b.30 Aug 1926, d. 28 Sep 1990 Marcom, Henry C., b. 1874, d. 1929 Marcom, Isiah D., b. 16 Mar 1868, d. 9 Jan 1939 Marcom, Jesse W., b. 28 Sep 1910, d. 17 Nov 2000 Marcom, Jesse W., Jr., b. 1947, d. 1949, s.o. J.W. & F. T. Marcom Marcom, Mamie J., b. 1881, d. 1911, w.o. Henry C. Marcom Marcom, Needham, b. 1 Sep 1914, d. 5 Oct 1918, s.o. I.D. & S.B. Marcom Marcom, Sallie B., b. 5 Sep 1883, d. 26 May 1973 Markham, Arthur B., b. 4 May 1922, d. 7 Sep 1990, Cpl US Army WW 2 Markham, Jean B., b. 23 Dec 1930, d. 9 Aug 2002, w.o. Arthur Markham, m. 16 Jun 1951 Marsh, Mae Johnson, b. 21 Oct 1926, d. 25 Jan 2000 Marshburn, Dallas C., b. 31 Oct 1913, d. 20 Apr 1998 Marshburn, Helen Medlin, b. 17 Mar 1913, d. ????, w.o. Dallas Marshburn, m. 29 Nov 1934 Maynard, no dates Maynard, no dates Maynard, no dates Maynard, John Albert, b. 22 Dec 1911, d. 28 Oct 1971, Pfc US Army WW 2 Maynard, Verla B., b. 24 May 1914, d. ???? McLean, Naomi D., no dates Merritt, Iline, no dates Merritt, Sam, no dates Mitchell, Lois (Sally), b. 21 Nov 1949, d. ????, w.o. Tommy Mitchell, m. 11 Jun 1966 Mitchell, Tommy J., b. 3 May 1948, d. 8 Aug 1974 Moseley, Michael O., b. 28 May 1963, d. 18 Apr 1991 Page, no dates Page, no dates Page, Callie, no dates Page, Calvin, no dates Page, Columbus, b. 1855, d. 1938 Page, Ernest D., b. 14 Aug 1886, d. 13 Jun 1941 Page, James M., b. 21 Oct 1895, d. 5 Jul 1951, Pvt 3 Engr Tng Regt WW 1 Page, Margaret, age 57, d. 22 Mar 1908 Perdue, Delmus, b. 23 Apr 1921, d. 23 Feb 2000 Perdue, Ruth M., b. 25 Jun 1924, d. ????, wo. Delmus Perdue, m. 9 Mar 1952 Potter, Corice Odell, b. 1901, d. 1994 Radford, Henry C., b. 14 May 1926, d. 22 Jan 1996 Radford, Pauline H., b. 30 Aug 1911, d. 11 Jul 1990 Ragan, baby, no dates Riley, Melvin Fletcher, b. 15 Aug 1926, d. 24 Oct 1972 Ritch, Gene H., no dates Ritch, Linda H., no dates Smith, Bobby, no dates Smith, Eleanor Joan J., b. 1 Dec 1935, d. 6 Mar 1990, w.o. Robert Smith, m. 2 Oct 1953 Smith, Robert R., b. 28 Oct 1933, d. 24 Oct 2000 Smith, Shirley W., no dates Smith, Tammy, no dates Sorrell, no dates Sorrell, no dates Sorrell, no dates Sorrell, Joshua, no dates Sorrell, Samuel, no dates Sorrell, Thelma Cornelia, b. 1 Apr 1908, d. 15 May 1908 Sorrell, Will, no dates Thornburg, Larry R., b. 21 Jun 1940, d. 23 Feb 1962 Throneburg, Jeremiah J., b. 14 Mar 1925, d. 5 May 1986, S 1 USN WW 2 Trammell, Edna Mae, b. 7 Dec 1908, d. 5 Apr 1975 Watkins, baby, no dates Watkins, Bethenie, no dates, "mother" Watkins, Betty F., no dates Watkins, Clarence Thomas, b. 11 Apr 1919, d. 19 Apr 1919, Pfc US Army WW 2 Watkins, Clyde, b. 7 May 1927, d. ???? Watkins, Ed, no dates, "baby" Watkins, Elbert, b. 1922, d 1986 Watkins, Ernest H., b. 30 Jul 1912, d. 6 Jun 1967 Watkins, Faye W., b. 1932, d. ???? Watkins, Gladys Sigmon, b. 21 Jun 1844, d. 27 Jun 1987 Watkins, Henrietta G., b. 23 Feb 1933, d. 21 Dec 1974 Watkins, James W., b. 18 Feb 1874, d. 11 Oct 1967 Watkins, Jean R., no dates Watkins, Julius J., b. 29 Aug 1920, d. 25 Apr 1998 Watkins, Katie W., b. 21 Oct 1927, d. 5 Nov 1987, w.o. Clyde Watkins, m. 29 Jun 1957 Watkins, Katie, no dates Watkins, Larry R., no dates Watkins, Lonnie, "father" Watkins, Marvin, b. 4 Sep 1917, d. ???? Watkins, Mattie M., b. 10 May 1884, d. 25 Jan 1985 Watkins, Milton W., b. 10 Mar 1914, d. 10 Oct 1999 Watkins, Ruby George, b. 6 Jun 1916, d. 9 Nov 1970 Watkins, Stella G., b. 15 Sep 1913, d. 14 Oct 1988 Williams, Carolyn Ann, b. 30 Nov 1967, d. 29 Apr 1973 Williams, Clara E., b. 17 Sep 1926, d. 27 Nov 1990 Williams, Edna Mae, no date Williams, William L., b. 25 Aug 1925, d. 21 May 1994, S2 USN WW 2 JME, no dates MMC, no dates RBE, no dates WTC, no dates ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. 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