R L Sumner Cemetery

Duplin County, NC

Surveyed by Lillian & Pearl Houston May 2007
Resurveyed November 2008
Resurveyed January 2013




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

Location Take Highway # 241 E five miles turn left on Midway Rd (SR1734) Cemetery is about 2000 feet from chicken house in a field with cows. Not well taken care of.

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    GPS Coordinates:
    34.98883 N
    77.76762 W

    The epitaphs are as follows:

    Nancy J Wife of Davis Blalock Jul 6 1901 Jun 20 1925 R L Sumner Oct 20 1866 Sep 13 1944 Julia Wife of R L Sumner Jul 8 1888 Jan 19 1923 Pvt Asa Sumner Co B 3rd Regt NC State Troops CSA Jul 20 1840 Jun 18 1909 Barbara H Wife of Asa Sumner Mar 29 1847 Mar 15 1910 Asa Sumner Jul 21 1885 Dec 4 1917 Galloway Son of Asa & Barbara H Sumner Aug 10 1894 Oct 4 1906 Nancy Ida Wife of S I Turner Oct 25 1973 Jun 29 1928 Sadie Daughter of J A & Mattie Thigpen Dec 22 1919 Oct 3 1922 Ressey Son of J A & Mattie Thigpen Jan 15 1911 Jan 25 1911 Pile of Broken Stones NOI Mattie S Thigpen Wife of J A Thigpen Jun 9 1890 Sep 29 1959 J A Thigpen Mar 15 1890 Oct 24 1941 Also on this same farm about 1/10 mile this cemetery in a small grove of trees. We found the following: Lula Jane Wife of R L Sumner Sep 13 1876 Dec 12 1903 Nancy Kennedy Oct 2 1847 Jan 11 1910 Wooden Marker Wooden Marker

    Lillian & Pearl Houston Send your questions (and thanks) directly to Lillian

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