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Woodlief - Merritt Family Cemetery

Mitchiners Crossroads, Franklin County, North Carolina, USA

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    Mitchiners Crossroads, North Carolina, USA
    Coordinates: 36.13534, -78.38288
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This is believed to be one family cemetery which was listed twice in the old Works Progress Administration (WPA) cemeteries to be surveyed, but apparently was never surveyed. It is located on a tract once owned by Henry Merritt (who d. 1861), and subsequently by his children (including daughter Sallie Merritt Woodlief) and grandchildren. Part of this tract remains in the family.

NOTE: There are only four Woodliefs buried here: Henry Merritt's daughter, Sallie Green Merritt Woodlief, her unmarried son, George, and two grandchildren (children of her son, Tom, who is buried at Perry's Chapel). No other Woodliefs are buried on this farm.

The WPA described the cemeteries as follows:
• Woodlief Family Cemetery:
Follow River Road from Louisburg to Mitchiners crossroads. Go 1/2 (half) mile, turn left on trail through farm for 1 mile to Woodlief home place.
• Merritt Family Cemetery: Follow River Rd, from Louisburg to Mitchiners crorssroads, go 1/2 (half) mile turn left on trail through farm, go 1 mile to Woodlief home place.

George L. Woodlief (d. 1921), youngest child of Sallie Merritt Woodlief, specified in his will that a quarter acre of land "where my mother Salie E. Woodlief is buried (be given as) a Public Grave yard."











This is believed to be one family cemetery which was listed twice in the old Works Progress Administration (WPA) cemeteries to be surveyed, but apparently was never surveyed. It is located on a tract once owned by Henry Merritt (who d. 1861), and subsequently by his children (including daughter Sallie Merritt Woodlief) and grandchildren. Part of this tract remains in the family.

NOTE: There are only four Woodliefs buried here: Henry Merritt's daughter, Sallie Green Merritt Woodlief, her unmarried son, George, and two grandchildren (children of her son, Tom, who is buried at Perry's Chapel). No other Woodliefs are buried on this farm.

The WPA described the cemeteries as follows:
• Woodlief Family Cemetery:
Follow River Road from Louisburg to Mitchiners crossroads. Go 1/2 (half) mile, turn left on trail through farm for 1 mile to Woodlief home place.
• Merritt Family Cemetery: Follow River Rd, from Louisburg to Mitchiners crorssroads, go 1/2 (half) mile turn left on trail through farm, go 1 mile to Woodlief home place.

George L. Woodlief (d. 1921), youngest child of Sallie Merritt Woodlief, specified in his will that a quarter acre of land "where my mother Salie E. Woodlief is buried (be given as) a Public Grave yard."











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