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‘It’s just a real shame …’
ELIZABETHTOWN — If historical records are correct, Bladen County came within a breath of modesty of having the 10th president of the United States. That’s merely one of the “factoids” found while researching Owen Cemetery, which sits atop Owen Hill overlooking the valley, Cape Fear River and Hwy. 53 — and is currently in a sad state of forgotten ruin. The cemetery, by most standards, is small. It contains just 12 known graves, though only...
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‘… a labor of love …’
If there is a cemetery to be found in Bladen County, Barney and Shirley Fergus have probably found it — or want to. The Ferguses, who live just inside the Bladen County line near Harrells, have spent countless hours over the past 39 years in genealogy work and, in 2008, it led them to their most recent endeavor: tracking down old grave sites. It all started when the couple was asked if they could find a grave site in Ivanhoe, and they wer...
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‘I wish more family was buried here …’
BLADENBORO — Unlike most poultry farmers, Bobby Ludlum has three generations of ancestry buried behind his chicken barns. As Ludlum strolls alongside the white picket fence that encompasses the family cemetery located 5 miles north of Bladenboro on Hwy. 131, he recounts the history of his six Pait relatives, beginning with his great-grandfather, Jesse Cameron Pait. Pait, for whom the family cemetery is named, was a blonde, blue-eyed Civ...
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Erin Smith/Bladen Journal The oldest grave marker which is legible in the Sutton Cemetery is this one. It marks the grave of Mitchell McPherson, son of J.C. and JoeAnna Sutton. The dates read May 28, 1896 to Oct. 25, 1918.
Erin Smith | Bladen Journal These graves lie in the Sutton Cemetery. The cemetery lies in a grove of oak and pine trees at the intersection of NC 53 and US 701 at Sutton’s Corner.
Erin Smith Staff writer ELIZABETHTOWN — Nestled among the trees at the intersection of U.S. 701 and N.C. 53 in the area known to locals as Sutton’s Corner sits a cemetery nestled among a grove of oak and pine trees. There is small dirt drive that leads between N.C. 53 and U.S. 701 passing in front of the cemetery. The sounds of the traffic rumbling past seem in stark contrast to those buried within the cemetery who lie in silent respite...
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‘It looks like somebody has forgotten them’
PHOTO IS OF MACK HESTER *** BLADENBORO — Beneath leaning hardwood trees, among brush and briars, the dead rest peacefully in an overgrown graveyard in Bladenboro. Surrounded by a mobile park, the Dymetrol manufacturing facility and a few homes, the unkept burial grounds are overlooked by many — except Mack Hester. “This place needs a major cleanup operation,” Hester said, cautiously stepping through the mixture of bramble and young tre...
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