YANCEY COUNTY, NC - CEMETERIES - McCracken Cemetery ----¤¤¤¤---- From Burnsville take 19-E about 3 miles east, just past Plum Branch turn left on gravel road. Go to the end of this driveway and walk up the hill, following trail thru woods about .5 miles to the cemetery. Condition: Poor SURNAMES: BRANCH, HARRIS, HIGGINS, MCCRACKEN, ROBINSON, SMITH, STINCHCOMBE, WHEELER, YOUNG, 1. Vianna Branch, 11-10-1860 - 11-26-1897 "Mother is gone but not forgotten, never shall her memory fade, sweetest thoughts shall ever linger around this grave where she is laid" "From her Children" 2. Ibby D. Robinson, 11-28-1845 - 3-25-1905, W/o J.B.Robinson, "Honored, Beloved, Wept, Here mother lies. Our beloved Mother". 3. Margaret L. Robinson, 7-11-1869 - 10-7-1871 4. James A. Smith, 5-30-1894 - 4-29-1896 5. Juda Smith, 4-8-1824 - 3-14-1900, 75 years, 11 mo. 6 days. (W/o # 7) 6. Juda M. Smith, 12-16-1890 - 12-23-1907, 17 years, 7 days, (D/o # 9, GD/o # 5 & 7.) 7. Mathew Smith, 6-22-1822 - 7-17-1904, 82 years, 25 days 8. Eddy Rosco Young, 8-28-1888 - 4-5-1890, S/o J.H. & E .R.Young 9. Marget E. Branch, 5-10-1850(53) - 4-29-1916, 65 years, 11 mo. 19 days (D/o Mathew & Juda Robinson Smith) 10. Henry (Monroe) McCracken, 4-7-1886 - 3-20-1936(5) (S/o John & Margaret Hicks McCracken - Wife - Pansy McCracken) 11. Betty McCracken Higgins, 1880 - 1933 12 Margaret L. McCracken, 9-12-1855 -5-1-1929, "She was a kind mother and a faithful friend" (D/o Sam Hicks, W/o # 13) 13. John (Calhoun) McCracken, 5-15-1845 - 8-19-1920, (D/o Henry & Biddy Phillips McCracken) 14. Rosie Wheeler, 5-23-1892 - 2-13-1920 "She was the sunshine of our home" (D/o John & Margaret Hicks McCracken - Informant - Charles D. Wheeler) 15. Cora Lee Harris, 5-1-1925 - 9-6(30)-1926 "Gone but not forgotten" (D/o Grover & Minnie McCracken Harris) 16. Robert H.(Hoderic) McCracken, 2-7-1883 - 10-21-1927 "May the resurrection find thee on the bosom of thy God" (was killed) 17. Laura Carroll Stinchcombe, 1871 - (8-18)1936 "In loving memory of our precious Mother" (D/o Noah & Rachel Boone Carroll, W/o Dr. John Stinchcombe) Many graves marked with fieldstones. (Information in parentheses is from death certificates or other sources) ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Bodford gbodford@yahoo.com ___________________________________________________________________