Wayne County, NC - Cemeteries
From the book, "Gravestone Inscriptions"

Reprinted with permission of the Wayne County Historical Association and
cannot be reproduced without permission. 

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Cemetery number 463 is located at the junction of Old Mt. Olive Highway
and State Road 1939. It is on the west side of the Railroad in an old clump
of trees in the corner of the field beside the road. Only sunken graves with
no markers are there now. In 1925 the bodies of Ezekial and Polly Slocumb
were removed to Moore's Creek Battle Ground from this site. The Slocumb
Home was near the cemetery and old grist mill on State Road 1939.

(Information on site of house and plantation were given by Mr and Mrs Melvin
B. Parker to Nancy Thompson and Gladys Weeks on 3-16-1980)

Colonel Ezekial Slocumb born 6-18-1760 and died 7-4-1840

Polly Hooks Slocumb, his wife, born in Bertie County, N.C. on 2-10-1760,
died in Wayne County, N.C. on 3-6-1836. She was the daughter of Thomas
Hooks who moved from Bertie County, N.C. to Duplin County after the birth of
Polly. 

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