The following is a complete listing of the tombstones in the Capt James Middleton Cemetery in Duplin County, NC.
Location From Kenansville take Highway # 24 & 50 going toward Warsaw, about 4-5 miles turn beside Devotional Garden office in a private home yard take the path beside the woods .07 mile the Cemetery is next to the woods. Cemetery is fenced and well maintained.
The epitaphs are as follows:
Top of Stone
Revoluntary Soldier
Capt James Middleton
1736--1805
Placed by Battle of Rock Church
DAR
A STONE ERECETED JUST ABOUT ONE HALF MILE FROM CEMETERY
on highway # 25 & 50 in the edge of a private home yard
Capt. James Middleton
1720---1795
First Middleton in Duplin County
Took grant for land in 1774
Southside Grove Swamp head Quarters
Of Maxwell Swamp. Home near here
occupied by wife, children and slaves,
while he was Capt. In Revolution
Other buried in same plot wife Mary Nixon or Sarah
Son: James unmarried
Son David and Wives
Cyremy McClamy and Celie Grefory
Mr. Spicer
Husband of daughter Kitty
Graves ½ mile North
Lillie
Wife of
Benjamin Franklin Rhodes
Aug. 8, 1857
May 13, 1921
Benjamin Franklin Rhodes
June 5, 1854
Nov. 8, 1931
Scared to the Memory
of Robert Middleton
Died Oct. 31, 1839
Aged 56 yrs, and 6 mos.
This sleeping dust ere long shall rise
and soar to God above the skies
In Memory
of Alice Middleton
Who Departed this life
Oct. 22, 1819
Age 33 yrs and 6 mos.
Here is a poor Pilgrim Lord and to find
At last her wish for home.
James Middleton
1720
1795
Wife and Children Memorial half mile
South on highway
Mary Moore
Wife of
Geo W. Middleton
Sept. 11, 1834
June 1, 1917
George W. Middleton
Aug. 3, 1827
June 10, 1889
Age 61 yrs, 10 mos. And 10 das.
Robert Henry Middleton
Aug. 21, 1851
Age 2 mos. 16 das.
Dorothy A Moore
Jan. 20, 1804
Dec. 25, 1825
MOTHER
Virginia H.
Wife of
Ransome Middleton
Aug. 1840
Feb. 9, 1873
2nd Lieut. Ransom Middleton
CO. A 38 NC INFANTRY
C S A
Addaline Miller Walker
Nov. 4, 1869
Feb. 10 1927
HER CHILDREN RISE UP
AND CALL HER BLESSED
David Middleton
Died May 19, 1830
Age 27 years
SAME STONE
Lydia W.
Son of Rabun S. and Jamina
Sept. 21, 1830
Age 12 years
Met rum left and infant Daughter
Died Nov. 3, 1828
On the right Mice M. W.
Daughter of H. H. and Sarah E. Whitfield
Died Sept. 19, 1848
Age 3 years
Scared to the
Memory of Henry Moore
Died: Aug. 30, 1831
51 years 8 mos.
OUR SISTER
ALICE
Died: Aug 31, 1857
Age 35 years and 5 mos.
ALICE W. MIDDLETON
John M. Middleton
Jan. 21, 1861
Sept. 3, 1931
OUR BROTHER
Tommie Middleton
April 8, 1875
Feb. 22, 1894
MONUMENT
FRONT
Thomas J. Kinneair
Sept. 15, 1800
Dec. 18, 1881
Adeline E. Kinneair
March 28, 1810
Feb. 13, 1855
Thomas H. Kinneair
July 2, 1832
March 2, 1907
RIGHT SIDE
Mary A. Kinneair
July 29, 1824
Dec. 23, 1911
Annie E. Kinneair
March 30, 1836
April 6, 1896
BACK
Susan K. Kinneair
June 5, 1880
Nov. 6, 1852
Temperance C. Miller
Sept. 10, 1840
Feb. 4, 1920
Jaminna H. Kinneair
June 25, 1842
Jan. 8, 1925
LEFT SIDE
Cornelia A. Kinneair
March 27, 1846
Dec. 3, 1886
Robert J. Kinneair
Sept. 10, 1810
Aug. 10, 1812
Lord they were Thine and not our own
Thou hast not done us wrong.
There are six stone with no information
Do not know what they stand for.
Lillian Houston Send your questions (and thanks) directly to Lillian.
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