YANCEY COUNTY, NC - CEMETERIES - Peterson (Mose) Cemetery ----¤¤¤¤---- Located off Horton Hill Road on a hillside above the Cecil & Nora McCurry house. Condition: Fenced- needs mowing. Note: There are no headstones but local tradition states that these are the graves of: 1. Mose Peterson, b. ca 1840 (Called "Black Mose". Because he always rode a black horse may have given him this name" "His first wife, Sarah Ann Byrd, is buried at Pleasant Grove Cemetery. It is said that he beat her to death" 2. Emma Peterson, b. ca 3/1860, 2nd wife of Mose. 3. Johnny Peterson b. ca 12/1869, S/o Mose & 1st wife, Sarah Ann. 4. Infant grave, may be that of Sidney, son of Mose & Sarah Ann. ___________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________