Wayne County, NC   Matthew Mile Jones Cemetery

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From the files of the late Barbara Lancaster
Posted with permission from her family

MATTHEW MILE JONES CEMETERY
Outlaw Road
Dudley, NC 28333
N35 16.93  W078 00.25
Located close to Outlaw Road approximately 1/4 mile from its 
intersection with Emmaus Church Road at the edge of the woods
on the north side of the road.
Brogden Township


Surname       Given Name        Birth Date    Death Date  Comments

Row 1

Jones         Daniel Edmund    19 Feb 1861   31 Jul 1938
Bradshaw      Emma             29 Apr 1880   19 Nov 1942  w/o Daniel E. Jones

Row 2

Jones         Simon Wesley                                b/o Daniel E. Jones
                                                          3 graves   slate markers
Row 3
                                                          2 graves   slate markers
                                                          Funeral home marker
Ellis                                                     Funeral home marker

Row 4

Jones         Reddick H.                                  Marker Co H 66 NC Inf CSA
                                                          Not known where he is buried 
                                                          To his memory
Row 5

Jones         Matthew Mile       [1820 ?]                 Stone marker
                                                          Marker Co C 27 NC Mil CSA 1903
Jones         Harriet McLemore   (1821 1906]              Stone marker
                                                          w/o Matthew Miles Jones

There are numerous sunken graves

Some information provided by Stacey Jones

End of Record

     

From Sarah Virginia "Jennie" Jones, granddaughter of Matthew 
and Harriet McLemore Jones; memories of her grandparents:

"He was a rather stern appearing man and the fact that he had 
but one eye made him appear even more forbidding. There were 
conflicting stories as to how he lost his eye. Some said he 
lost it in a duel with swords   there were rumors that he was 
quite a sport in his younger days; others maintained he lost 
it in a rough and tumble fight with a ruffian who clawed it out 
with his fingers. This leads me to believe that no one ever 
actually pinned him down to the truth or details of the story. 
It doesn't matter except that the highly colored stories and 
his somber appearance caused me to look on him with more awe 
and morbid speculation than love. No doubt he was a fine man 
and I never heard of any irregularities in his later life. Both 
he and grandma were staunch Primitive Baptists. I cannot remember 
when I first saw grandma nor when I learned to love her; I imagine 
it was simultaneously. She was a jolly little Scotch Irish woman 
with twinkling eyes and a cherrie word for everybody. She was the 
mother of thirteen children, nearly all of them seemed to inherit 
her happy attitude towards life. They all possessed good voices, 
as well as musical talent."