Wake County, NC - Doub Cemetery Doub Cemetery 0 Turnipseed Rd. Shotwell, Marks Creek Twp. Wake Co., NC 6 Oct 2007 N 35° 44.' 26.9" W 78° 26.10' 10." Directions: From the east side of the Raleigh Beltline take Exit # 15, Poole Rd. (SR 1007) abt. 4 miles to Smithfield Rd. (SR 2233). Turn south on Smithfield Rd. and go 1/2 mile to the intersection with Turnipseed Rd. (SR 2507) Turn east (left) on Turnipseed Rd. and drive abt. 1/4 mile to the walled cemetery on the south side of the road. There is a little spot where you can park in front of the cemetery. There is a large stone with "Doub" inscribed. The cemetery contains .07 acre and is in pretty good condition. I walked through the cemetery and recorded all that was readable. Blake, Bennett Taylor, Rev., b. 3 Jan 1800, d. 28 May 1882, shared with Fetna Price Blake & Scheherezade Price Blake Blake, Fetna Price, b. 7 Jul 1810, d. 22 Jun 1836, 1st wife of B. T. Blake, shared with Rev. B. T. Blake and Scheherezade Blake Blake, Scheherezade Price, b. 12 Dec 1805, d. 31 May 1853, Relic of Thomas Mial, 2nd wife of Rev. B. T. Blake, shared with Fetna & Rev. B. T. Blake Doub, Pattie Anderson, b. 28 Jun 1869, d. 5 Nov 1951, wife of Landon L. Doub Doub, William Blake, b. 5 Apr 1909, d. 5 Mar 1910, son of L. L. & Pattie Doub Price, Echboll, b. 30 Sep 1845, d. 21 Apr 1861, son of Washington & Frances Bushrod Price, born in Lafayette, Miss. Price, Rebecca Robertson, b. 14 Feb 1779, d. 16 Feb 1826, wife of Thomas Price Price, Thomas, b.?, d. 7 Dec 1830 Sexton, Robert Doub, b. & d. 10 Jun 1920, son of M. J. & Laura Doub Sexton 2 crypts approx. 1' high, no inscriptions found, in Doub Section 1 crypt, same description, in the front portion of the cemetery Oaky Grove Plantation, 5800 Turnipseed Road, Shotwell, Designated: 10/20/1997, Individually Listed, National Register Built by Thomas Price around 1818 Oaky Grove has been home to generations of the Price, Blake and Doub families, Originally a two-story hall-parlor-plan house, the dwelling was expanded and remodeled in the late nineteenth century. The 28-acre tract, all that survives of the once over 4500-acre plantation, also contains an early smokehouse, barn, and the family cemetery with stone tombs and a notable stone enclosure wall characteristic of antebellum plantation graveyards in North Carolina. Oaky Grove is still owned by the Doubs family. Shotwell and Walnut Hill Once a plantation, today this area includes a rural historic district that is listed on the National Register and a rural landscape that evokes the longstanding agricultural heritage of the region. Nearby is a 7,500-acre roadless area surrounding Mark's Creek that includes substantial bottomland hardwood swamps. Extending into neighboring Johnston County, this land is one of the largest tracts still undeveloped in the Triangle. In February 2003, it was selected by Scenic America as one of ten "Last Chance Landscapes" that exemplify the need for land protection in the United States. ______________________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________________