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498    ISHAM SIMS UPCHURCH [F75.1]

Location: Wake County. 200 feet from Chatham County line off Batchelor Rd. in Cary. Will be part of Courtyard at Jacob's Creek development.

Coordinates: 35d 46m 46.3s N; 78d 56m 00.9s W Click here for Online Maps

Isham Sims Upchurch is buried here along with his wife and several children. Jack Ritchie documented and photographed the site on 7 Jan 2026.

View #2 of the cemetery. - - - View #3 of the cemetery. - - - View #4 of the cemetery. - - - Sketch of cemetery layout.

Owner: LD Jacobs Creek LLC
Epcon Jacobs Creek LLC
500 Stonehenge Pkwy
Dublin, OH 43017-7572
Legal Description: Wake County PIN 0723181768. REID 0004943.
Topo Quadrant: Green Level, F.
Abandoned.
Number of graves: 5 marked. Unknown unmarked.
Cemetery size: 24x28 feet.
White.
Unrestricted access.
Marginally maintained.
Enclosed by an iron fence that is deteriorating at the time of this visit (7 Jan 2026).
Markers: Yes.
Number of readable markers: 5
Last burial: 1916
First burial: 1878

Miscellaneous information: Isham Sims Upchurch is buried here along with his wife Delia Beavers Upchurch and several children. I.S. Upchurch (1824-1916) served in Company G of the 16th NC Infantry CSA during the Civil War and was a well-known farmer in the east Chatham/Green Level area. Records show that he owned approximately 450 acres that straddled the Chatham/Wake county line. In the 1850 census, Isham is listed as a mechanic in the Marmaduke Williams household in Lower Regiment Chatham. He married Delia Beavers in December 1851. Isham and his wife Delia are listed in Chatham censuses from 1860 to 1880. Isham is in Chatham as a widower in 1900 and remarried in 1910. Eleven of Isham and Delia's thirteen children lived to adulthood and married into other east Chatham families. The two children who died early are buried in this cemetery, which is on the Upchurch homeplace and located just 200 feet over the Chatham County line into Wake County. Isham's death certificate lists his father as Murray Upchurch and mother as Nancy Scott.

Last canvassed by: Jack Ritchie, 7 Jan 2026.

1. Upchurch, Delia   (b. 8 Mar 1832 - d. 23 Sep 1893)
Wife of I.S. Upchurch. Aged 61 yrs 6 mo 15 days.
2. Upchurch, Hercelia   (b. 24 Jan 1886 - d. 27 Jul 1888)
Daughter of M.R. and R.A. Upchurch. "Suffer the little children to come unto me."
3. Upchurch, I. S.   (b. 31 Dec 1824 - d. 5 Apr 1916)
Aged 91 yrs 3 mo 4 days.
4. Upchurch, Mary A.   (b. 3 Aug 1872 - d. 2 Nov 1880)
Daughter of I.S. and Delia Upchurch.
5. Upchurch, Sidney H.   (b. 7 Nov 1867 - d. 2 Oct 1878)
Son of I.S. and Delia Upchurch. "An obedient son."