Friendship Missionary Church Cemetery

Duplin County, NC

Surveyed by Lillian and Pearl Houston August 2007




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

Location From Rose Hill take Pope Road 5 miles turn right on Corinth Church road. Cemetery is about 5 miles behind Friendship Church

African American Cemetery



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    GPS Coordinates:
    34.77894 N
    78.09102 W

    The epitaphs are as follows:

    

    

    

Roy R. Fisher
 Dec. 18, 1931
Oct. 24, 2004
CPL US ARMY

Mary H. Jacob
June 22, 1915
July 10, 2002

“Pop”
Lee Mitchell
Nov. 30, 1952
Sept. 13, 1997

William L. Cummings
July 11, 1935
April 28, 1990

James A. Peterson
May 10, 1900
Jan. 18, 1981

Lottie V. Williams
Nov. 11, 1911
June 10, 1976

James T. Williams
Jan. 10, 1910
April 7, 1992

Minnie M. Mott
May 5, 1924
July 12, 1977

Henry Thompson
1889
1983

William F. Thompson
1889
Feb. 11, 1978

K. Soloman Rhodie
1913
1977

Unmarked grave

Michael W. Rhodie
1950
1979

Unmarked Grave

Malik Demont Pollock
Aug. 29, 1995
Sept. 23, 2006

Unmarked Grave

Savannah P. Young
Sept. 15, 1913
May 5, 1991

John A. Williams
1909
1979

Willie A. Williams
1917
1976

Elizabeth Merritt
Dec. 25, 1904
March 4, 1983

Herbert J. Artis
Nov. 9, 1931
June 27, 1971

Oscar Thomas Mathis
Feb. 12, 1914
March 12, 1981

James McKinley Mathis
Feb. 18, 1918
Sept. 7, 1996

Lloyd Ashley Rhodes
Dec. 25, 1920
March 31, 2002
CPL US ARMY

Levy James Mathis
Sept. 10, 1939
Oct. 7, 2002

Hazel E. Mathis
Dec. 14, 1922
Oct. 30, 2004

Benjamin Johnson Picket
Feb. 20, 1925
Feb. 5, 2002
Same stone
Alice Juanita
Jan. 11, 1928
Nov. 23, 2000

Mary J. West
Oct. 3, 1910
Dec. 6, 1989

Hattie B. West
July 31, 1954
Sept. 28, 1982

Wilson
MM 
Unreadable

Roosevelt Wilson
Jan. 28, 1902
April 4, 1984

Sheila Wilson
May 10, 1904
Dec. 22, 1995

Alice Carroll Wells
March 3, 1938
May 7, 1995

Vera S. Wells
1913
1982
MM

Unmarked Grave

David Evans
1894
April 23, 1989
MM

Johnnie Mack Brown
Aug. 2, 1944
Aug. 12, 1969

Dorothy Mae Crumpler Graham
June 5, 1919
July 5, 1981

Junius M. Crumpler
Sept. 14, 1923
April 20, 1986

Virginia C. Brown
 `930
`984

Juanita Brown
Feb. 14, 1912
Dec. 15, 1987

Sylvester Brown
Dec. 2000
Nod 
MM

Beloved Mother and Grandmother
Clara Mae Brown
Sunrise July 18, 1942
Sunset June 11, 2003

Jason Jackson
April 24, 1978
Jan. 1, 2001

Christopher Brown
July 16, 1966
July 28, 1986

MM Marker X 3
No information

Robert West Cromartie
1911
1982

Paul D. Butler
Jan. 3, 1936
April 3, 1968

Addie W. Butler
June 23, 1916
April 19, 1989

Lloyd J. Rhodes
Oct. 3, 1946
July 24, 1984

Marker
No information

Vernia Crumpler
Nov. 28, 1914
May 8, 1985
PFC US ARMY

James C. C. Anderson
Oct. 19, 1907
April 9, 1961

Lucious Jones
Oct. 1, 1914
Dec. 10, 1946

Narcisa Williams
Wife of William H. Anderson
March 13, 1885
April 26, 1943

Mary F. Johnson
Wife of J. M. Newkirk
Dec. 29, 1860
Aug. 18, 1924

Diamond Bennett
March 8, 1847
Nov. 7, 1920

Essie Newkirk
Wife of P. O. Devane
June 18, 1889
June 10, 1926

Rena Faison
Wife of Sylvester Faison
Nod
Jan. 14, 1943

Ida Mary Johnson
Nod
Feb. 22, 1916
7 years old

Nealis Mathis
Nov. 28, 1884
March 19, 1954

Oscar T. Johnson
Stone buried so deep could not dig out

Annie R. Mathis
Stone buried so deep could not dig out

Garfield D. Johnson
April 15, 1882
Oct. 16, 1952

Jannie Williams
Aug. 21, 1917
Oct. 1951

2 Stone no info

Dennis Crumpler
1882
1967

Mary Belle Devane
Wife of Dennis C. Crumpler
March 12, 1883
Jan. 7, 1945

Eliza Crumpler
May 6, 1883
June 16, 1956

Henry Stringfield
Jan. 6, 1906
Aug. 18, 1970

Mrs. Lula Johnson
No dates

Sallie M. Fryer
April 14, 1894
Dec. 8, 1967

Mary B. Stallings
1905
1977

John Robert Mathis
July 8, 1908
Aug. 1, 1968
Same stone
Fisher Wells
Feb. 6, 1912
May 8, 1976

Jeremiah Kenan
Nov. 8, 1935
Aug. 8, 2003

Latonia Kay Kenan
Jan. 25, 1958
Oct. 29, 1998

Mother Berta Williams
No date
Nov. 27, 1968

Luther G. Williams
1912
1983

Mary A. Williams Shaw
Nov. 22, 1911
 May 23, 1960

Lester Shaw, Sr.
June 4, 1904
Dec. 5, 1974

Joe Luther Williams
Sept. 21, 1918
June 11, 1968

Ellen S. Williams
1895
1979

James F. Williams
June 4, 1935
May 25, 1978

Josephine McGilliam
Dec. 5, 1922
Sept. 12, 1980

Dorothy S. Bryant
No date
July 4, 1992

Arthur Lee Mathis
Aug. 26, 1912
Sept. 5, 1971

Cleveland Mathis
July 1922
Sept. 1971

George Twitty
Feb. 12, 1900
May 8, 1990
MM

James R. Stallings
May 7, 1924
Feb. 29, 1988
PVT US ARMY

Glendale Stallings
May 29, 1935
Feb. 22, 1989

Mary Lossie Barnhill
Feb. 9, 1910
May 29, 1983


    

    

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