L.R. Gresham Cemetery

Duplin County North Carolina

Surveyed by Pearl & Lillian Houston April 2007




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

Location: About 0.4 miles west, on the north side of West Stanford Street in Beulaville, N. C. Cemetery is located between Railroad Street and 1725.



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    GPS Coordinates:
    34.93056 N
    77.78199 W

    The epitaphs are as follows:

    

    

    

In front of the cemetery a monument stand and it reads as follow:

L. R. GRESHAM CEMETERY
Monument donated 
In Memory of Fonnie Gresham Lanier


Chester Kelly
CO  A  30  NC  INF  C. S. A. MUS

Fonnie G. Lanier
Mar. 2, 1908
Nov. 11, 1958

Robert Curtis Gresham
Feb. 6, 1902
July 24, 1955
same stone
Nannie Mae Howard
Sept. 3, 1905
May 12, 1982

Henry Newton Gresham
Nov. 19, 1866
Dec. 29, 1946

Martha Ursula 
wife of H. N. Gresham
May 22, 1877
July 27, 1929

Velma M
Infant Daughter of R. S. & Lessie Batchelor
Feb. 5, 1933
no other dates

Robert S. Batchelor
Aug. 8, 1907
Nov. 1, 1960
same stone
Lessie G.
Feb. 28, 1906
Oct. 3, 1959

Robert McLane Gresham
July 3, 1933
Mar. 3, 1963

Julius Carl Gresham
Jan. 20, 2904
Oct. 24, 1987

Cecil Rhodes
Oct. 15, 1921
Aug. 18, 1992
US COAST GUARD WW II
same stone
Molly Jane G
Aug. 17, 1928
no other dates
Married June 4, 1955

William Pearson Leonard
June 30, 1928
July 4, 2006
same stone
Edna Earle G.
Aug. 17, 1928
no other dates
Married Dec. 30, 1953

Willie Earl Gresham 
..Oct. 20, 1896
Aug. 10, 1986
same stone
Bertha F.
July 15, 1901
Oct. 18, 1992
Married: Sept. 20, 1925

Major Jr. Lanier
Oct. 18, 1930
2007--MM
Susie G.
Sept. 10, 1938
no other dates
Married July 10, 1953

L. R. Gresham
July 25, 1845
June 7, 1933

Mary J. Sandlin
wife of L. R. Gresham
Aug. 15, 1848
July 12, 1922

N. E. Gresham, Rev.
June 13, 1895
July 21, 1952

Helen Smith Gresham
wife of N. E. Gresham
Sept. 18, 1906
June 20. 1989

Son of N. E. & Helen Gresham
Mar. 12, 1924
Mar. 5, 1926

Daughter of N. E. & Helen Gresham
Feb. 14, 1926
Sept. 23, 1926

James Henry Lanier
April 21, 1928
May 8, 1970
NORTH CAROLINA T SGT 
U  S  AIR FORCE
WW II  KOREA  VIETNAM

Mack Jason Lanier
Jan. 20, 1973
Feb. 13, 1998

Marvin A. Foster
Sept. 1, 1929
May 2, 1997
same stone
Mildred L.
Apr. 5, 1934
Aug. 9, 1972

Ladin J. Lanier
Aug. 22, 1946
Jan. 26, 1992
EN3  US  NAVY
VIETNAM

John Robert Garvey
Sept. 15, 1913
Dec. 10, 1981

Patsy Kennedy Heath
Nov. 12, 1964
Aug. 23, 2002
same stone
Phillip Harvey Heath
Nov. 16, 1960
no other dates


    


    

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