Wake County, NC - Lewter Yates Cemetery

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10/9/2004

Lewter Yates Cemetery
Green Level Church Rd./Ferson Rd.
Green Level, White Oak Twp., Wake Co., NC.

Recorded from existing headstones, Shirley Olson, shirley32olson@yahoo.com

N 35°47'37.3"  W 78°55'07.8"

Dir:  From the intersection of Hwy. 55 and Green Level West Rd. (SR 1615), 
Apex, take Green Level Rd. West 1.7 miles to the "Y" of Green Level West Rd. 
and Beaver Dam Rd. Take Beaver Dam Rd. .2 miles to the stop sign at the 
intersection of Beaver Dam and Green Level Church Rd. (SR 1600). Turn right 
onto Green Level Church Rd., and go 2. 4 mi. (approx.) to the point where 
Ferson St. intersects from the right. On your left, set back on Green Level 
Church Rd. is a large white farmhouse in ruins. A rough driveway, overgrown 
with weeds will bring you up to the house and continues beyond to the ruins 
of a barn. The farm land is overgrown with weeds and beyond that, a little 
way into the woods, is the remains of this cemetery. This is an abandoned 
cemetery.

This property was aquired by Joseph John Yates about 1876 and the house built 
about that time. The house is featured "The Historic Architecture of Wake 
County", Page 338, as well as the smoke house that is located behind the 
house and described as "a rare half-dovetail-notched plank smokehouse with an 
overhanging gable-front roof." I found this cemetery through Rosemary Neal 
(thank you Rosemary) who spotted the legal notice in the Apex Herald announcing 
the intention to relocate the remains of those buried here to Green Level 
Baptist Church Cemetery, and the plan to deposit the record of the reinterment 
with the Wake County Health Dept., which has the responsibility for maintaining 
records of moved graves. The notice in the newspaper incorrectly named the 
intersection as Person St., instead of Ferson St. 

Lewter, Charles Madison, b. 16 Jun 1841, d. 12 May 1910
Lewter, Fidelia, no dates, shared w. Charles Madison Lewter
Lewter, Florie, no dates, shared w. Fidelia and Charles Madison Lewter
Yates, Hinton, 25 Jun 1821, d. 15 Apr 1891

Unreadable broken headstone, dates 12 May 1826, d. 5 Oct 1907
There appear to be about 7 unmarked graves in addition to these.

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