The following is a complete listing of the tombstones in the Wood Family Cemetery in Duplin County, NC.
Location: Behind Sharon Baptist Church in the field. To get to cemetery turn on Firehouse Rd in Chinquapin, then turn on dirt/grass path immediately after Kameron Jo Ln. Follow path back into field, it will take you right to cemetery.
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GPS Coordinates:
34.82739 N
77.82155 W
The epitaphs are as follows:
William Thomas Cox
Sep 4 1870
Mar 30 1960
Ida Cox Wood
Oct 11 1906
Dec 4 1989
Double Stone
Nickles J Thigpen
1857
Jul 6 1926
Nancy Susan Thigpen
Jan 14 1867
Nov 1 1930
Double Stone
Madell Wood
Apr 15 1904
NOD
Andrew F Wood
Feb 29 1911
NOD
Lloyd N Thigpen
North Carolina
Pvt 165 Inf
12 Div
Jul 17 1938
NOD
Mary Alice
Wife of
I.T. Whaley
Oct 27 1897
Aug 24 1947
William Franklin Wood
Mar 10 1930
Oct 19 1947
Letha E Wood
Mar 8 1900
Jan 23 1960
Transcribers notes:
Nickles J Thigpen is Nicholas Thigpen
William Thomas Cox is Ida Cox Wood's father
I.T. Whaley is Ivey Thomas Whaley
Letha Wood is the son of George and Elizabeth Wood
William Franklin Wood is Letha and Ida Cox Wood's son.
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