Re:Joppa &Heidelberg Cemetery,- Davie NC
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Re: Booe-Jopa Cemetery, Davie Co., NC
3/29/00
I live in Davie County.The Joppa Cemetery - the front part of the Joppa Cemetery is taken care of mowed and everything but once you go through the gate where the Boone's and the Booe's are it is not being taken care of. Late last summer when I was there taking pictures you had to walk over fallen branches, weeds and what grass was in that part was not mowed.The stones for the Boone's look like it had been tended but the Booe stones, about 50 foot from the Boone's had not be taken care of they has moss and poison oak growing all over the stones and bugs got all over us.I do have pictures of the Booe stones that are burried there if you want a copy.I have a friend that is looking into maybe getting the girl scouts to help clean it up.The front part is taken care of by a volunteer.They ran a story on TV on this old man last summer.
The Heidelberg cemetery, surrounded by a rock wall and overgrown with huge trees and dense undergrowth is located on Cornatzer Road.Take Hwy #64 East to Cornatzer Road turn left.Go about 1 mile Cemetery is on corner knoll, at Homer Potts Road, on left side of the road.When you turn left on Homer Potts the cemetery is located on the left at the top of the hill. The granite gateposts remain but the iron gate is gone.A few ancient stones are still legible, although they are partly sunk into the earth.Some of the
headstones that you can read are as follows:
1793HERE LIES THE BODY OF MARTHA BRAKEN WHO
DEPARTED THIS LIFENOVEMBER - AGE-.
1793 THIMAS BRACKEN
CATHERINE BRACKEN WAS BORN 29 DAY OF MAY 1707
AND DEPARTED 11TH DAY AUGUST 1800
FANNIE BOOE WAS BORN MAY 23, 1779 AND DEPARTED
THIS LIFE NOVEMBER 21, 1800
ADAM GAUL WAS BORN 9 DECEMBER 1758 DEPARTED
THIS LIFE 25 JUNE 1788
SARAH AND SAMUAL BALY
1711 ELIZABETH ON A FIRST OF OCTOBER
ELLEN DECEMBER JULY
Many others have fallen and have been covered up by two centuries’
of accumulated leaves and decaying undergrowth.Since the abandonment of
the church site the graves have been tended only by the sun, rain and wind.
It is believed that a gate from the Heidelberg Cemetery is in the possession
Claire Hanes Follin, a descendent of Alexander Martin Booe.He was one of
the agents appointed by North Carolina Evangelical LutheranSynod to sell
the tract of land on which the church was located, except the graveyard and
one acre.The church has given me permission to clean up this graveyard and see if anymore stones can be found. Anybody out there want to help?It's getting warn enough to start.
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Re:Joppa &Heidelberg Cemetery,- Davie NC
Karen Hunter 4/18/00