Wake County, NC - Carlton Cemetery

                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Carlton Cemetery
Country Trail
Leesville Twp.
Wake Co., NC

3 Mar 2006

N 35° 53' 09.2"  W 78° 42' 51"

Located in a densely wooded area, this small family cemetery was found 
by Earl Flannery while using a metal detector. He recognized it as the 
proper location for a headstone that had been left on his driveway 2 
years ago, in April 2004, by a prankster. He also realized that another 
headstone which had been dropped off at Wendy's Restaurant in Cary about 
the same time and had been the subject of a widespread attempt to return 
it to it's rightful location belonged in this cemetery. Thanks to Mr. 
Flannery and the Cary Police Dept. which has been storing the headstone 
for 2 years there is a happy ending to this tale.

No directions are provided other than the co-ordinates.  The cemetery is 
on land owned by the city of Raleigh, it is an abandoned cemetery, no 
parking, difficult access, no trail. 

I walked the cemetery. Shirley Olson, shirley32olson@yahoo.com. 

Carlton, A. E., b. 8 May 1863, d. 4 Jan 1930
Carlton, Elizabeth, b. 11 Jan 1829, d. 1 Jan 1904, with footstone E.C. 
(This is the headstone found in Cary at Wendy's)
Carlton, J. M., b, 17 Mar 1853, d. 19 Jun 1925, with footstone J. M. C. 
(This headstone left on Mr. Flannery's driveway)
Carlton, Mattie E., b. 15 Jul 1873, d. 17 Nov 1891

There is a depression that appears to be another, but unmarked, grave

Almost exactly 2 years ago I got a phone call from the Cary police 
department looking for some help in restoring a found tombstone to its 
rightful location. It had been left at Wendy's restaurant in Cary. Police 
Officer Pearson tried diligently to find it's home, and uncovered a couple 
of other cemeteries, but we never found the right place. I posted a message 
on the Wake message board and after a while forgot about it. Some other 
folks and I knew there were other Carltons up in Ebenezer Church Cemetery 
on Ebenezer Church Rd., Raleigh, but they weren't missing a tombstone in 
that churchyard. Well, miracles happen because a man who had been the 
unwilling recipient of a matching tombstone left on his driveway 2 years 
ago stumbled across the little cemetery in a tangle of woods and brush not 
far from his home. He promptly put his tombstone, which he had kept on his 
porch for 2 years, back in it's place, e-mailed me, and called the Cary 
police. We were all ecstatic! Oficer Pearson can close the case and the 
stone is back home.

______________________________________________________________________

Copyright. All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm

This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by
Shirley Olson - shirley32olson@yahoo.com
______________________________________________________________________