YANCEY COUNTY, NC - CEMETERIES - Hensley/Low Gap Baptist Church Cemetery
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LOCATION:  From 19E, East of Burnsville, turn onto 197S and go about a mile 
and turn on Bolens Creek Road.  Follow this road across the mountain and after 
passing the Hensley Log House on the left, go just a short distance to a road 
that turns out above the barn and follow this road to cemetery:  
Condition:  Good 

SURNAMES: BLEVINS, BOONE, BURLESON, HARRIS, HENSLEY, MCCLELLAN, MCMAHAN, 
NANNY, PENLAND, RIDDLE, SMITH, WHITEHURST

1.  Funeral home marker, unreadable (Possibly Mathew Burleson)
2.  Cora E. Smith, 1879 - 1968
3.  Barnett C. Burleson, 1901 - 1965 (S/o Cora Smith & Mathew Burleson) 
4.  Frank Hensley, 12-29-1943 - 3-23-1981
5.  Nellie M. Hensley, 1914 - 2001, Wife of # 6 (8-17-1914 - 1-20-2001 - 
    (D/o Wm. B. & Mollie Woody Miller)
6.  Bascomb U. Hensley, 1883 - 1961 "NC 1st Sgt Co. L. 1st Inf. WW I" 
    (11-10-1883 - 8-28-1961,  Son of  Clingmon & Sarah Penland Hensley
7.  Linda McMahan, 10-18-1942 - 1-12-1955 "Was far too sweet to linger long" 
    (D/o Kenneth & Grace Hensley McMahan)
8.  Jane Ray McMahan, 2-11-1953 - 3-7-1970 (D/o Kenneth & Grace H. McMahan)
9.  Joan K. McMahan, 2-11-1953 - 3-22-1979 (D/o Kenneth & Grace H. McMahan)
10.  Kenneth E. McMahan, 1-4-1918 - 10-16-2000 
    (S/o Jeter & Theodosia McPeters McMahan)
11.  Grace H. McMahan, 5-19-1918 -         W/o 10
12.  Kittie Hensley, 12-26-1902 - 6-19-1905
13.  Elbert M. Hensley, 4-30-1874 - 4-28-1949  "Father" (S/o Clingmon & Sarah)
14.  Nancy Ray Hensley, 6-19-1880 - 2-20-1960 "Mother"
     (D/o Dolph & Mary Banks Ray)
15.  Otis M.,  Son of W.E. & Nellie Blevins, 12-29-1924 - 6-22-1926 
16.  Nellie H. Riddle, 11-26-1881 - 10-27-1973, 91 Years, 11 mo. 1 day 
     (D/o Adolphus & Rachel Penland Hensley)
17.  Mary Lucretia Hensley, Wife of W. L. McClellan, 3-14-1889 - 6-30-1928 (D/o Clingmon & Sarah)
18.  Edgerly McClellan, 1920  "Baby"
19.  Mary McClellan, 1922 "Baby"
20.  Columbus P. Hensley, 1-15-1875 - 4-30-1947  
     (S/o Adolphus & Rachel Penland Hensley)
21.  Ellen Shepherd Hensley,  Died 7-4-1956,  Age 69 
     (B. 10-9-1886 - D. 7-4-1956 - W/o # 20, 
     D/o Will & Mary Jane Austin Shepherd)
22.  Claude Henry Hensley, 7-15-1919 - 4-14-1994 
     Footstone: CLAUDE  H. HENSLEY, COX US NAVY, WW II   (S/o # 23 & 24)
23.  Phinehas B. Hensley, 3-19-1886 - 7-19-1964 (S/o Clingmon & Sarah)
24.  Dorothy D. Hensley, 3-9-1896 - 6-10-1985 
     (W/o # 23, D/o Tom & Margaret Wilson Dellinger)
25.  Ruth Hensley, 1916 - 1974 ((D/o # 23 & 24)
26.  Otto J. Boone, AB US AIR FORCE - KOREA  1-10-1932 - 3-23-1986 
     (S/o Hudson & Vergie McMahan Boone)
27.  Vergie McMahan Whitehurst 3-15-1914 - 8-28-1982 
     (D/o Jeter & Doshia McPeters McMahan)
28.  Rock
29.  J. Solomon Hensley, 2-2-1879 - 11-1-1966 (S/o Clingmon & Sarah)
30.  John A. Hensley, June 6-15-1819 - Died 9-11-1911 
     "Thy Trials Ended, Thy Rest is Won" 
31.  Anie Mariah, Wife of John  A. Hensley, 10-15-1826 - 3-29-1910 
     "Gone but not forgotten"  "Not dead but has simply passed the gateway 
     of death from the scenes of her usefulness to the realms of her God"
32.  Sarah Penland Hensley, 4-30-1854 - 3-11-1925, Wife of # 33 
     (D/o Albert & ? Ray Penland)    Married:  Jan. 1, 1872
33.  M. Clingmon Hensley, 10-4-1849 - 7-21-1903 
     (S/o John A. & Annie Mariah Hensley)
34.  Infant Children of Sarah L. and McClinton C. Hensley 
     "Budded on earth to bloom in heaven"   Footstones:   I.H.   
     (infant Hensley)
35.  Martha Hensley, 10-25-1872 - 6-8-1903, Wife of E. McMahan
36.  Altha Hensley, 11-19-1880 - 1-23-1967, Wife of C. A. Ray 
     (D/o Clingmon & Sarah)
37.  Sgt. Mack Harris, CO B 29 NC INF CSA
38.  Jane Harris, 1847 - 1877 (W/o # 37, Mary Jane Hensley 
     married Mc. W. Harris on 8-28-1865)
39.  Maude, D/o of M. C. & Sarah Hensley, 9-7-1898 - 9-22-1910  
     "Gone but not forgotten"
40.  Indiana Dellinger Penland, Wife of  C. A. Penland, 4-22-1851 - 7-21-1935
41.  Charles Albert Penland, 4-23-1845 - 10-18-1927 
     "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord"
42.  Maggie A. Boone,  5-30-1916 - 7-15-1916
43.  Hettie Penland Whitehurst, 1881 - 1959
44.  Otto B. Whitehurst, 10-25-1869 - 1-17-1937 
     (S/o Otto & Mollie Hall Whitehurst)
45.  Hudson Daniel Boone, 11-18-1900 - 12-18-1960 
     (S/o Andrew & Hattie Penland Boone)
46.  Charles Nelson Boone, 6-22-1913 - 10-4-1964 
     (S/o of Andrew & Hattie Boone)
47.  Floyd Lee Nanny, 1894,   Son of W. A. and S. M. Nanney 
     "Safe in the Shepherd's Fold"
        
(Information in parentheses is from death records, census or other sources.


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