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.
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 MarkerWooden Marker