Gravely Family Cemetery
Transylvania County, North Carolina, USA – *No GPS coordinates
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on Gladys Fork Road near the top of the mountain
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Add PhotosJoseph and Elizabeth Gilstrap Family Cemetery
On 19 Jun 2014, a trip was made in the Glady Fork Road and East Fork Area of Transylvania County to find the Gravely Family Cemetery. From the top of the mountain on Glady Fork Road to the bottom of the road ending at East Fork Road (on the right side of the road), there are some two dozen POSTED signs. The entire stretch of road appears to be posted forest. Secondly, the entire area is "grown up" with trees and underbrush. There was no indication of a chimney for any previous house, anywhere along this road; we were unable to locate the cemetery. However, photos of the burials, known to be here, were posted in 2016 to the 4 memorials thanks to Pamela Yarborough, who said she stumbled upon the cemetery with the help of a friend that lives in the area. Pamela took the photos of the 4 markers.
From a 1970's description of the cemetery:
This small family cemetery contains the four graves of Joseph Gravely, his wife, Elizabeth, and their two sons, Jabez and Louis/Lewis, within a fenced enclosure. It is located on top of the mountain above Rocky Bottom, South Carolina, near the North Carolina-South Carolina border. To get there you leave U.S. Highway 178 at Rocky Bottom, South Carolina and take Van Clayton Memorial Highway, which passes by the South Carolina Camp for the Blind, and goes into North Carolina to the top of the mountain where Gladys Fork Road begins. Continue back down the mountain on Gladys Fork Road and the cemetery is found on the right hand side up an embankment. If you go further on down Gladys Fork Road, it will intersect East Fork Road at the bottom of this long downhill route. The cemetery was half hidden in a laurel thicket and shaded by several giant hemlock-spruce trees when John and Verna Gravely McCracy visited the site in the 1970's. Close by to the cemetery is a unique stone chimney, which once supplied warmth for an early settler's log cabin, but the cabin has long since fallen to decay.
Joseph and Elizabeth Gilstrap Family Cemetery
On 19 Jun 2014, a trip was made in the Glady Fork Road and East Fork Area of Transylvania County to find the Gravely Family Cemetery. From the top of the mountain on Glady Fork Road to the bottom of the road ending at East Fork Road (on the right side of the road), there are some two dozen POSTED signs. The entire stretch of road appears to be posted forest. Secondly, the entire area is "grown up" with trees and underbrush. There was no indication of a chimney for any previous house, anywhere along this road; we were unable to locate the cemetery. However, photos of the burials, known to be here, were posted in 2016 to the 4 memorials thanks to Pamela Yarborough, who said she stumbled upon the cemetery with the help of a friend that lives in the area. Pamela took the photos of the 4 markers.
From a 1970's description of the cemetery:
This small family cemetery contains the four graves of Joseph Gravely, his wife, Elizabeth, and their two sons, Jabez and Louis/Lewis, within a fenced enclosure. It is located on top of the mountain above Rocky Bottom, South Carolina, near the North Carolina-South Carolina border. To get there you leave U.S. Highway 178 at Rocky Bottom, South Carolina and take Van Clayton Memorial Highway, which passes by the South Carolina Camp for the Blind, and goes into North Carolina to the top of the mountain where Gladys Fork Road begins. Continue back down the mountain on Gladys Fork Road and the cemetery is found on the right hand side up an embankment. If you go further on down Gladys Fork Road, it will intersect East Fork Road at the bottom of this long downhill route. The cemetery was half hidden in a laurel thicket and shaded by several giant hemlock-spruce trees when John and Verna Gravely McCracy visited the site in the 1970's. Close by to the cemetery is a unique stone chimney, which once supplied warmth for an early settler's log cabin, but the cabin has long since fallen to decay.
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- Added: 24 Feb 2010
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2343207
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