Rice Cemetery
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Rice Cemetery

Also known as Hartt Cemetery

Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA

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  • Get directions 6400 Matthews Mint Hill Rd
    Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
    Coordinates: 35.16663, -80.66402
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Near Rice home in East Mecklenburg Co. Rice Cemetery is a defunct cemetery. Second Site of Philadelphia Presbyterian Church.

For 46 years, from 1780 - 1826, this second building of Philadelphia Presbyterian Church was located along the north wall of this cemetery until the church moved in 1826 to its third and current site (at 11501 Bain School Road, Mint Hill, Mecklenburg County, NC). On the outside of the south wall is a burial place for servants of church members. These graves are arranged in neat rows, most unmarked, some marked with fieldstones. This Servant Section is believed to be one of the largest remaining old slave cemeteries in Mecklenburg County.

Many additional graves sites are marked with foot stones. Over 100 grave markers have been found within the walled section and over 200 have been found outside the wall. Some of these fieldstones have initials and some have dates, however most have neither. Care is exercised in the restoration process to find and preserve these grave markers. If you walk inside the cemetery, please be careful and do not disturb markers or other artifacts including stones from the wall.

More history on the cemetery and Philadelphia Presbyterian Church can be found in book The Presbyterian Gathering on Clear Creek, by the late Rev. Russell M. Kerr, published 2001 by Philadelphia Presbyterian Church.





Near Rice home in East Mecklenburg Co. Rice Cemetery is a defunct cemetery. Second Site of Philadelphia Presbyterian Church.

For 46 years, from 1780 - 1826, this second building of Philadelphia Presbyterian Church was located along the north wall of this cemetery until the church moved in 1826 to its third and current site (at 11501 Bain School Road, Mint Hill, Mecklenburg County, NC). On the outside of the south wall is a burial place for servants of church members. These graves are arranged in neat rows, most unmarked, some marked with fieldstones. This Servant Section is believed to be one of the largest remaining old slave cemeteries in Mecklenburg County.

Many additional graves sites are marked with foot stones. Over 100 grave markers have been found within the walled section and over 200 have been found outside the wall. Some of these fieldstones have initials and some have dates, however most have neither. Care is exercised in the restoration process to find and preserve these grave markers. If you walk inside the cemetery, please be careful and do not disturb markers or other artifacts including stones from the wall.

More history on the cemetery and Philadelphia Presbyterian Church can be found in book The Presbyterian Gathering on Clear Creek, by the late Rev. Russell M. Kerr, published 2001 by Philadelphia Presbyterian Church.





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  • Added: 26 Aug 2007
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2229245