Faison Community or Cobb Cemetery

Duplin County, NC

Surveyed by Lillian and Pearl Houston November 2007




The following is a complete listing of the tombstones in the Cobb Cemetery in Duplin County, NC.

Location In Faison turn on Highway # 403 Cemetery is just outside of city limits behind Old Burning Bush Holy Church.

On the older death certificates this is called the Faison Community Cemetery. On the newer ones it is called Cobb Cemetery.Since the 1960's it is called Cobb I will call it Coob Cemetery here.

African American Cemtery



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    GPS Coordinates:
    35.11135 N
    78.15354 W

    The epitaphs are as follows:



    Oscar Ezzell May 13, 1897 Feb. 11, 1981 PVT US ARMY WW I Albert Hodges Aug. 13, 1915 Sept. 30, 1985 STONE Unreadable Marion Lamont Sherrod May 14, 1947 March 27, 2005 SGT US ARMY VIETMAN Ivey Lee Sherrod July 15, 1923 Nov. 19, 2004 Annie E. Armwood March 5, 1938 Aug. 30, 2006 Matthew Armwood July 23, 1922 Nov. 11, 2004 2 MM Marker Unreadable Thomas Pridgen No other info Percy “Bill” Moore May 26, 1933 Aug. 3, 2007 Jessie T. Aycock Sept. 18, 1911 April 23, 1993 James L. Wolfe July 21, 1939 Aug. 5, 2006 Jessie D. Wright March 17, 1917 Dec. 11, 1986 Charlie Conyus April 24, 1912 April 10, 1980 Francis S. Sampson July 18, 1938 May 11, 1978 Katherine Kelly May 8, 1923 Jan. 3, 1979 Robert Kelly March 17, 1917 July 8, 1997 Matthew Stevens Oct. 8, 1918 June 17, 1990 Julius B. Brewington May 23, 1885 March 14, 1962 Same stone Hannah W. Brewington Feb. 22, 1891 May 11, 1983 Minnie C. Mathis Oct. 16, 1922 Jan. 7, 1990 Lillie B. Mitchell June 15, 1926 May 9, 1973 Robert Lee Hill June 16, 1901 Oct. 5, 1976 Same stone Juanita Bryant Nov. 19, 1914 Dec. 13, 1995 Martha V. Powell Oct. 24, 1909 May 5, 2001 Theodore Powell April 16, 1905 Dec. 27, 1979 Joe. R. Bennett, Sr. Oct. 18, 1915 Feb. 10, 1989 Bobby G. Edwards Oct. 24, 1948 April 4, 1976 Lillie Philyaw Nov. 19, 1921 Jan. 1, 1977 Christopher C. Philyaw June 5, 1917 April 12, 1981 Kenneth Aaron Kornegay Jan. 24, 2004 Feb. 24, 2004 MM Betty M. Jones May 28, 1930 Dec. 1, 2002 Kynmora Tatchyona Tatum March 30, 2006 April 1, 2006 MM Hazel Faison Jan. 3, 1921 Sept. 1, 2006 Charlotte Bowden May 4, 1923 April 5, 1988 David A. Bowden Feb. 1, 1917 Dec. 28, 1977 Dixie Mae Contry Jan. 30, 1942 Oct. 27, 1988 Curtis E. Oates Nov. 11, 1944 July 1, 1990 Hosea Matthew, Sr. March 18, 1915 March 12, 2006 PVT US ARMY WW II Martha Wolfe 1923 2006 MM Linwood Earl Hobbs Feb. 21, 1948 Feb. 9, 2005 SN US NAVY VIETNAM James Taylor, Jr. Dec. 8, 1920 Nov. 4, 1972 NORTH CAROLINA PFC US ARMY WW II Eva Mae Hargrove July 15, 19--- July 15, 19--- MM Doretha Hobbs May 1, 1930 June 3, ----- Moses Troublefield May 27, 1925 Nov. 18, 1973 NORTH CAROLINA PFC US ARMY WW II Tremayne L. Simmons, Jr. Infant Son of Tremayne and Analye Feb. 3, 2005 Feb. 3, 2005 Maggie D. Cox Oct. 28, 1915 Nov. 29, 1980 FATHER Pelham Simmons March 3, 1910 June 12, 1974 Bessie Warren April 6, 1899 Sept. 2, 1975 Mary L. Hargrove May 6, 1866 April 15, 1976 Flonnie Hobbs Aug. 28, 1905 April 17, 1976 Johnnie B. Simmons Dec. 12, 1912 Sept. 25, 1991 Rufus M. Simmons, Sr. July 5, 1939 Dec. 8, 1995 Thomas E. Moore Feb. 26, 1959 Dec. 15, 1999 Florence V. Hemingway June 15, 1908 Aug. 19, 1990 Linda A. Morrisey May 7, 1959 March 26, 1994 William H. Williams Oct. 1, 1927 Jan. 20, 1988 William Sampson Feb. 10, 1921 Feb. 12, 1989 US ARMY WW II Albertha B. Morrisey March 2, 1910 June 16, 1988 George Brunson Sept. 27, 1924 April 5, 1988 CPL US ARMY KOREA Darrell e. Faison 1968 1983 Loumis H. Oates May 29, 1938 Dec. 20, 1991 Mr. Nathaniel George, Sr. July 12, 1926 Jan. 4, 1999 MM Minister Elaine Mitchell Aug. 17, 1953 Sept. 28, 2001 Samuel Fryar, Sr. March 12, 1912 March 29, 2001 Same stone Rose Bell March 8, 1912 Dec. 11, 1998 Lucy Fannie Williams July 4, 1910 May 31, 2003 Bishop Evandus George Sunrise March 30, 1920 Sunset May 15, 2005 O’Berry Beaman Jan. 11, 1931 July 23, 2003 Blanche B. Jones March 4, 1925 Aug. 1, 2000 Unmarked Grave Laura Brunson Ware Feb. 2, 1902 Oct. 27, 1999 Maurice P. George 1933 1982 Sampson George Dec. 28, 1922 Nov. 20, 1991 Samuel L. George Feb. 1, 1949 April 8, 2002 James H. Leach, Jr. July 3, 1957 Aug. 10, 1996 James H. Leach April 25, 1914 Jan. 24, 1994 2 MM Marker Unreadable Janice F. Boyette-Ludwig Aug. 15, 1955 Jan. 26, 2007 Robert Lewis, Sr. May 28, 1929 Jan. 28, 2003 Same stone Sarah Aug. 22, 1928 April 5, 2001 MOTHER Bernice H. Oates Jan. 28, 1926 March 21, 2001 BROTHER Kenneth L. Leonard July 6, 1960 April 1, 2007 Nyshawn Nathanel Jasso Sept. 17, 2003 Sept. 17, 2003 Annette Simmons July 7, 1940 April 5, 1998 Clarence Benjamin May 16, 1918 Nov. 16, 1997 Janie Mae Sutton Dec. 9, 1954 Feb. 16, 1998 Novella Johnson June 19, 1945 June 6, 2007 MOTHER Beulah Mae Craddock Carrence Jan. 13, 1937 May 22, 2000 Nettie A. Reid Jan. 12, 1924 Feb. 7, 2001 Sadie B. Smith Oct. 16, 1915 Nov. 13, 2000 Tammoris N. Raynor Aug. 17, 1973 Sept. 10, 2007 MM Noah c. George Oct. 9, 1951 Sept. 19, 2000 MM Marker Unreadable Bobby Lee, Seaberry, Jr. Sept. 16, 1979 Feb. 9, 2007 Harry L. Hill, Sr. Dec. 17, 1913 Feb. 4, 1998 Phylander Faison 1926 1999 DEACON Gary Taylor March 4, 1904 Oct. 24, 1999 Same stone MOTHER Ella Jane July 27, 1912 March 3, 2005 William A. Cobb Sept. 21, 1921 Dec. 12, 2007 PFC US ARMY WWII Same stone Mary W. Sept. 12, 1925 Nod MOTHER Gloria Brunson Oct. 7, 1936 Jan. 16, 1994 Eric Todd Badger Son of Mary Badger Nov. 25, 1962 Jan. 1, 1994 Keith Darnell Badger April 17, 1966 May 31, 2002 Wade McDuffie June 14, 1965 Nov. 15, 1993 Robert E. McDuffie June 2, 1957 June 30, 2006 Ester T. McDuffie, Sr. Feb. 27, 1927 Dec. 30, 2004 Betsy F. Leach Oct. 26, 1910 Dec. 25, 1992 Wm. Arthur Ashford Son of Artha Stevens July 19, 1918 April 28, 1993 Leroy Stevens Oct. 28, 1937 Nov. 13, 1996 Louis Henry Joyner May 31, 1942 July 28, 1997 Eudell Ross July 4, 1923 Jan. 12, 1993 Curtis Lee Hill March 9, 1941 Jan. 28, 1993 Ranso H. Bell Jan. 20, 1920 Dec. 6, 1996 EVANGETIST Arathra Stevens Nov. 15, 1900 Sept. 13, 1997 Sallie Bell 1921 1983 Delois G. Bell Oct. 6, 1933 Dec. 30, 1994 Eliher Freeman Bell Aug. 28, 1918 March 9, 1984 Mary J. Hobbs 1900 1985 Claretha S. Oates April 21, 1923 Feb. 22, 1988 Eddie Oates April 9, 1918 Jan. 17, 1991 PFC US ARMY WW II Andrew T. Leach March 31, 1921 Sept. 23, 1989 Annie M. Warren May 20, 1909 April 27, 1988 Unmarked Grave Thomas F. Brewington Dec. 17, 1906 July 9, 1992 Broken Stone Unreadable Rose B. Brewington Jan. 9, 1911 Jan. 26, 1989 Lacy R. Faison April 4, 1926 May 24, 1989 US NAVY WW II Frank Hart Murray June 1, 1945 Jan. 28, 1997 SP4 US ARMY VIETNAM Lucy E. Brewington Feb. 16, 1905 Oct. 19, 1989 MOTHER Luberta B. Pride June 17, 1955 Sept. 22, 1991 Vinnie B. Tann Nov. 2, 1927 April 16, 1998 Johnny B. Tann Aug. 21, 1957 March 19, 2002 Unmarked Grave Ivery Donnell Royal Feb. 12, 1953 Aug. 26, 1990 Ronnie Vann April 20, 1955 Sept. 12, 1990 Lena M. Vann Nov. 18, 1934 Feb. 19, 1999 Clarence Mathis July 4, 1933 June 16, 2002 ------B. Solomon Aug. 28, 1960 May 16, 1991 2 Unmarked Graves Addie Lee Williams Aug. 29, 1943 Feb. 17, 1995 Mable A. Stevens Sept. 28, 1928 Dec. 24, 2003 Eugene West 1924 1993 MM Jennifer P. Howell March 3, 1961 July 27, 1992 MM Marker Unreadable Lucy M. Bristow Nov. 18, 1907 April 16, 1995 3 Unmarked Graves Richard L. Oates July 21, 1945 Aug. 17, 1996 Helen McKiethan Sept. 12, 1946 July 10, 1991 Florence Draughon June 20, 1911 Jan. 2, 1991 Kenneth Antonio Hill Born and Died Oct. 14, 1985 Julia S. Howell Jan. 22, 1916 Sept. 7, 1994 Infant Son Of John and Bessie Fogelman May 7, 1991 Nod Ernestine Faison Dec. 1, 1942 Sept. 3, 1995 Wilbert Faison Nov. 3, 1918 May 4, 2001 Cressul Faison May 15, 1917 Nov. 19, 2003 Ola Mae Hill May 12, 1927 Sept. 26, 2003 Edwin Hill March 1, 19--- March 15, 1984 Matthew D. Weeks Oct. 2, 1908 Sept. 8, 1985 James Franklin Smith 1920 1981 PVT US ARMY WW II Lillie Mae Barksdale April 24, 1926 May 22, 1998 Doris B. Flanagan May 3, 1924 Dec. 15, 1996 Johnnie McKinney June 19, 1914 Feb. 18, 1983 Same stone Rev. Omelia G. Deb. 10, 1910 Feb. 7, 1984 Garfield Flanagan, Jr. Nov. 26, 1921 Feb. 11, 1988 Lula C. Tripp April 27, 1890 Aug. 24, 1988 Unmarked Grave Hosea Hargrove June 9, 1914 March 22, 1984 William L. Ashford June 18, 1915 Sept. 25, 1990 Maggie Ashford Nov. 18, 1916 May 2, 1997 Charles Autry Smith June 20, 1925 Dec. 19, 1984 US NAVY WW II Bessie M. Tann Aug. 10, 1928 Nov. 27, 2003 Lwander Simmons Oct. 10, 1904 March 18, 1984 Vera I Simmons Feb. 19, 1912 Feb. 15, 1990 Bertha J. Thompson Oct. 9, 1893 Sept. 5, 1981 William N. Howard II March 3, 1917 Sept. 17, 1988 Ralph Hargrove Jan. 12, 1935 July 10, 1988 Jimmy Lee Harper June 11, 1951 Oct. 15, 1983 SGT US ARMY VIETNAM Johnnie Lee Johnson Nov. 5, 1920 Dec. 9, 1991 Viola P. Winston Sept. 6, 1906 Oct. 11, 1994 Mary Linda Harvey Oct. 18, 1957 Jan. 17, 1999 MM Marker Unreadable Frank Taylor, Sr. March 19, 1928 Nod Same stone Mary Elizabeth Sept. 11, 1930 Sept. 19, 2002 Katie S. Wells Feb. 29, 1920 Feb. 13, 2003 MM William L. Bell Sept. 9, 1931 Aug. 5, 2004 Lillie Mae Faison Jan. 25, 1925 Aug. 1, 2003 Willie Loftin Oct. 14, 1925 Aug. 12, 2007 Gertie Lee Armwood Sept. 15, 1914 June 7, 2007 MOTHER Evelyn Grace Williams April 12, 1932 March 9, 1999 Edward Shine Feb. 16, 1928 May 11, 1999 Roberta Moore Sept. 6, 1932 Oct. 30, 2003 Unmarked Grave Janie Delois McLeod Jan. 24, 1963 Jan. 29, 2004 Charles James Darden April 3, 1933 June 12, 2006 MM Unmarked grave Annie R. Kornegay Sept. 23, 1934 Aug. 28, 1999 Carthel Cobb July 5, 1927 Oct. 27, 2000 Willa J. Baggett April 28, 1946 Feb. 26, 2007 Kenneth Debois King Dec. 9, 1952 Aug. 15, 2006 MM MM Marker Unreadable Lillian Singleton Aug. 20, 1944 June 6, 2004 Adell McNair Oct. 22, 1942 Aug. 15, 2006 Frances Helen Lee Bell May 22, 1928 March 16, 2006 Henry Oates, Jr. Jan. 28, 1936 Aug. 11, 2002 McClure Stevens Aug. 11, 1920 Nov. 5, 1999 PFC US ARMY WW II April M. Hall Aug. 19, 1977 Feb. 10, 2007 MM MM marker X 2 Unreadable Shirley N. Bell Dec. 31, 1959 Aug. 8, 2002 MM Macon R. Kornegay May 17, 1935 Jan. 14, 2006 MM Gladys Warren Oct. 15, 1924 July 3, 2005 Dr. Grace S. McDonald March 6, 1920 Dec. 6, 1999 Leamon Barksdale March 23, 1953 Jan. 2, 2000 Baby Harvey March 27, 2001 March 12, 2003 MM Leary Stevens May 2, 1920 Dec. 20, 2000 Edward McLeon, Jr. Sept. 15, 1960 Nov. 14, 2003 Quessie L. Simmons Oct. 3, 1917 Dec. 18, 2002 J. Antwan Lewis April 3, 1989 April 9, 2005 Walter A. Hargrove Aug. 14, 1959 Oct. 3, 2004 Curtis H. Mimms Aug. 4, 1937 June 8, 2002 Wiley J. Armwood Nov. 9, 1915 Feb. 27, 2000 Same stone Evelyn B. April 16, 1917 Nod Wedding date June 20, 1935 Gracie L. Brown Feb. 3, 1936 Dec. 21, 1997 Jessie Artis De. 15, 1917 Oct. 19, 1997 Broken Stone All that was readable Hezekiah Jan. 7, 1930 Sept. 29, 1997 Same stone April 22, 1932 Nod Jaylin Antonia Artis Sept. 12, 1994 June 30, 1997 Gertrude Baggett Moore March 16, 1900 Dec. 7, 2003 LOVING MOTHER, GRAND MOTHER, GREAT GRAND MOTHER, GREAT-GREAT GRANDMOTHER Winston Baggett May 30, 1936 Dec. 20, 1996 Walter Barksdale Feb. 4, 1925 Oct. 15, 1996 James Doll Warren May 15, 1905 June 8, 1996 Sula Cobb Jan. 2, 1939 Dec. 24, 2004 MM Jordon Victoria Elizabeth Hartzog Jan. 24, 2006 Nod Willie L. Stevens May 2, 1941 April 7, 2005 Lillie Armwood Dec. 16, 1931 June 11, 1995 Cora Thompson July 24, 1904 Feb. 10, 1995 Gary Taylor Feb. 11, 1930 Dec. 17, 1984 Alma T. Hicks April 7, 1921 March 15, 1993 Robert E. Oates March 2, 1957 Aug. 13, 1995 Thomas Faison March 1, 1900 Nov. 26, 1985 Betty T. Simmons 1947 1986 Stone Turn Over Unreadable Hubert E. Faison May 26, 1923 Jan. 26, 1986 Janie B. Faison Jan. 17, 1896 July 19, 1991 Ada Elizabeth Joyner Jan. 2, 1950 July 24, 1987 Kilby Armwood March 12, 1927 Feb. 19, 1986 PFC US ARMY WW II Mary Margaina Faison June 6, 1904 Aug. 19, 1988 Mother of Esther, Wilbert, Rommie, Helen and Rossie Katie E. Hill Jan. 23, 1911 Oct. 16, 1989 Psyscilla D. Grandy Infant daughter of Cincaston and Narail Grandy Aug. 25, 1989 Aug. 28, 1989 Alford Aycock Aug. 18, 1949 May 17, 1990 William A. Cobbs Sept. 21, 1921 Dec. 12, 2002 PFC US ARMY WW II Same stone Mary W. Sept. 12, 1925 Nod Sallie T. Smith Feb. 14, 1914 Sept. 6, 1987 Jessie Lee Smith Feb. 19, 1947 Sept. 7, 1989 PFC US ARMY Emma L. Carlton April 12, 1923 Sept. 10, 1999 Bessie M. Tann Aug. 10, 1928 Nov. 27, 2003 Catherine McKiethan Jan. 27, 1927 Dec. 31, 1999 Robert McKiethan May 28, 1925 Feb. 5, 1991 Vera S. Scott Jan. 6, 1903 Nod Wasby Armwood Jan. 19, 1913 Nov. 20, 1998 PFC US ARMY WW II Wilden Harper, Sr. Jan. 7, 1930 Oct. 13, 1997 Same stone Ruth A. Sept. 23, 1930 Nod Leonard Armwood Margo April 6, 1907 Nod Same stone Margaret Armwood Jan. 6, 1909 March 3, 1988 Dr. Lemuel R. Revels Jan. 3, 1905 May 27. 1986 Carrie J. Moore Sept. 4, 1966 Aug. 21, 1992 Handson O. Moore April 25, 1934 Feb. 11, 1983 Vicky M. Moore May 3, 1968 April 7, 1982 Bernice Moore May 6, 1965 Nov. 9, 1994 Georgia M. Smith Nov. 12, 1912 Aug. 8, 1981 Carl L. Simpson 1923 1980 US ARMY Unmarked grave Nancy C. Hobbs March 10, 1914 July 29, 1980 Drummont E. King Son of Russell and Almond King Aug. 19, 1969 July 7, 1975 Willie R. Faison Nov. 17, 1913 Jan. 4, 1978 Elouise Faison Fryer Dec. 3, 1917 April 18, 2004 Charles D. Wooten Nov. 22, 1914 Sept. 30, 1975 John C. Hobbs May 18, 1896 Sept. 8, 1982 2 Unmarked graves Kenneth E. Peoples Feb. 15, 1949 June 25, 2000 Henry F. Peoples March 1, 1914 March 28, 1984 Reaths Peoples Jan. 22, 1919 Sept. 6, 1975 John H. Ashford Nov. 24, 1895 June 1, 1987 J. Christopher Armwood Feb. 24, 1970 Oct. 16, 1988 Lonnie Stevens 1942 2004 MM Bernice Stevens April 16, 1950 Aug. 4, 1991 Thomas L. Stevens Nov. 28, 1921 Sept. 11, 2006 David L. Weeks Oct. 18, 1900 Dec. 13, 1972 Hannah Ashford Faison Feb. 18, 1918 April 21, 1972 Blanch Stevens Sept. 6, 1826 Aug. 18, 1878 Dorothy Faison June 9, 1943 Sept. 30, 1997 Nursey M. Smith March 17, 1908 Nov. 17, 1981 Winston C. Cobbs Oct. 4, 1957 July 13, 1989 William Avery Dec. 24, 1907 Aug. 9, 1971 Charlie Sampson Feb. 22, 1922 Nov. 28, 1998 Roland C. Crawford June 4, 1909 April 24, 1977 John C. Cox May 28, 1911 March 25, 2004 Thomas Earl Moore 1926 1977 TEC US ARMY WW II Angela Massey Jun 9 1956 Jun 4 2008 Charlie Cobb PVt US Army World War II Feb 25 1927 Mar 3 2009 Mildred L Hodges Dec 18 1923 Apr 16 2009 Lizzie Bryant Moore Feb 19 1911 Nov 21 2008 Diane B Bryant Apr 8 1953 Apr 22 2008 James E "Bobby" Simmons Aug 3 1939 Sep 14 2009 MM Donald Ray Oates Jan 12 1948 Oct 23 2009 Age 61 Leedell Williams Aug 27 1929 Jul 25 2009 MM Unreadable Double Stone Brown Cornelius Oct 11 1967 Nov 8 2007 Lenora H NOD MM Unreadable Mary McClamb Aug 4 1953 Jun 19 2009 MM Unreadable Johnnie Lee Troublefield SP4 US Army Apr 8 1943 Dec 28 2008 Terry L Singleton May 14 1978 Jun 29 2009 Craig L Darden May 16 1978 Jun 8 2008 Shirley Jean Parker May 7 1953 Aug 29 2008 Annie M Branch Dec 16 1934 Jul 6 2008 MM Unreadable MM Unreadable MM Unreadable Mattie B Avery Feb 1 1936 Jul 16 2009 MM Wilma Joyce Faison Sep 12 1943 Mar 3 2009 Age 65 William M Morrisey Mar 31 1936 Feb 29 2008 Sallie W McDuffie Jul 29 1929 Jun 27 2008 Armatha G Leas Sep 26 1920 Mar 26 2008

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