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547 COTTEN [T53.1]
Location - Cape Fear Township. End of SR 1917, Truth Road, 0.7 mile north of NC 42. Address is 735 Truth Rd., New Hill, NC.
Coordinates: 35d 33m 23.0s N; 78d 57m 19.0s W Click here for Online Maps
In 1984 Martha Harrington reported (in Kathy Brooks Harris, Buffalo Creek Chronicles, Vol. I) ten gravesites marked with fieldstones and enclosed by cinderblock wall. This information was confirmed by Jerry Cotten. Boe Goodwin visited the site in September 2022 and took photographs. He noted only two
inscribed markers.
Owner: Cotten Family.
Legal: Parcel 5658. Cemetery shown on plat 98-448.
Topo Quadrant: Cokesbury.
Family owned: Yes.
Abandoned: Yes.
Number of graves: 10.
Unrestricted access: Yes.
Overgrown and not easy to identify: Yes.
Enclosed: Yes.
Enclosed explanation: Cinder block wall.
Enclosed conditions: Good.
Markers: Yes.
Listed: Yes.
Listed explanation: Kathy Brooks Jones, "Buffalo Creek Chronicles," Vol. I, 1984, p. 32.
Miscellaneous information: Original canvasser did not enter graveyard because of briars.
Last canvassed by: Martha Harrington. Date: Feb 1984; Boe Goodwin September 2022.
 Cotten, Annie L. (b. Unknown - d. Unknown) Daughter of J.H. & S.E. Cotten. Marker difficult to read. (DEC 16 1906 - APR 1? 194?)
- Cotten, John H. (b. 1 Mar 1861 - d. 3 Jan 1923)
Husband of Susan "Susie" Emma Buxhanan Cotten.
Web page updated 19 October 2022
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