The Black Family Cemetery
This chart to the Black Family cemetery was handed out at the Black Family reunion in July of 1976. I have been unable to locate the author/transcriber, but take the liberty of sharing it with the rest of the world, in the hopes that it will help other researchers. I have tried to reproduce it as exactly as possible.
I visited the cemetery on March 28, 1998. It is in excellent condition.
Directions: From Cherryville go south on 274. Just past Shady Grove Baptist Church take a LEFT on St Mark's Church Rd (SR 1416). After .4 mi go LEFT on Helton Rd (SR 1416). Go another .4 mi and turn RIGHT on Foster Rd (SR 1437). Foster Rd dead-ends in the cemetery after .6 miles.
The private cemetery of Samuel Simpson Black, Esquire. Near Waco, NC - just across the Cleveland County line in Gaston County, North Carolina.
First Row:
Samuel C. Sneed b. March 12, 1879 d. April 10 1939Grave with rocks: Sam Sneed's child buried here
Wiley M. Sneed b. March 2, 1880 d. July 19. 1960
Lula Allran Sneed b. July 4, 1877 d. Aug. 9 1955
Lewis F. Sneed b. March 21, 1907 d. Dec. 12, 1956
Second Row:
Harvey RobertsE.L. Roberts b. Oct. 5, 1915 d. June 29, 1929
Barbara L., wife of H.C. Roberts b. July 4, 1891 d. March 20, 1918
G.V. Sneed b. Jan 16, 1893 d. Nov. 7, 1917
William Sneed b. June 1893 d. Aug. 1909*
Mary J., wife of William Sneed b. June, 1893 d. Aug, 1909
Infant son of W.A. & M.J. Sneed b. & d. March 16, 1878
Infant son of W.A. & M. (Sneed) b. Feb. 17, 1877 d. March 1 (or 11), 1877
Infant son of A. Wilburn & Ida E. Black April 9, 1907
Mary E. A. Black d. March 1, 1871 1 year, 12 ds.
Nathan M. Black d. May 28, 1871 18 yrs.,2 ms., 9 ds.
Johnnie, son of S. J. T. & S. A. Beam b. May 4, 1861 d. Sept. 5, 1862
William L. Kiser b. Jan 16, 1876 d. Feb 8, 1935
Mary Jane Sellers Kiser b. Feb. 1, 1861 d. Oct. 25, 1939
Jacob Ervin Kiser, son of William b. Nov. 29 1904 d. May 11, 1952
Third Row:
A. Wilburn Black b. Dec. 22, 1871 d. June 28, 1956Jacob A. Black b. Dec. 27, 1840 d. Sept. 25, 1930
Barbara Ann Sellers Black b. Nov. 22, 1848 d. Jan. 19, 1938
Samuel Black b. April 18, 1807 d. Oct. 31, 1882 75 yrs., 6
ms., 13 ds.
Ann Black d. Aug. 6, 1856 38 yrs., 4.ms., 11 ds.
Eli Black d. May 12, 1849 3 yrs., 3 ms., 4 ds.
Samuel S. Black d. Aug. 10, 1862 6 yrs., 20 ds.
John S. Kiser b. Oct. 9, 1849 d. Jan. 15, 1929 79 yrs., 3 ms., 6 ds.
Barbara F., wife of John S. Kiser b. Nov. 1, 1852 d. April 12, 1899 47 yrs., 5 ms., 11 ds.
John S. & B.F. Kiser two infants
Frances E. Kiser daughter of J. & B. Kiser b. March 21, 1882 d. June 13, 1883 1 yr., 2 ms., 23 ds.
Infant son of W. L. & M. J. Kiser d. Oct.1, 1902
Julia Hammett b. Nov. 1, 1887 d. June 27, 1916
Hattie May Hammett b. June 3, 1916 d. June 14, 1916
Samuel W. Hammett 1881-1929
Fourth Row:
William Hazel Black d. Aug, 5, 1963 55 yrs., 3 ms., 26 ds.Bessie L. Black Jan. 13, 1884 April 23, 1960
Elsey E. Black b. May 12, 1845 d. April 27, 1907
Mary Black, his wife b. Nov. 27, 1841 d. Jan. 10, 1880
Infant daughter of E.E. and M.E. Black 3 days
Maggie, wife of C. C. Noblitt b. Sept. 7, 1883 d. Mar. 11, 1933
Infant of T. F. & C. E. Sellers b. Oct. 4, 1902
Fifth Row:
Jacob Worth Black b. Dec. 22, 1874 d. Jan. 30 1950three rocks
Susan, daughter of M. L. & S. C. Beam b. Oct. 20, 1883 d. Oct. 21, 1883
Nathan L. Beam b. April 12, 1877 d. March 7, 1896 18 yrs., 10 ms., 25 ds.
M. L. Beam b. March 4, 1843 d. Dec. 20, 1910 68 yrs., 9ms.,
16 ds.
Susan C. Beam b. Feb. 12, 1843 d. Dec. 11, 1910 67 yrs., 7
ds.
Buried at the Black Cemetery at Avery Farm, Lincoln Co., NC:
Also see my page on the Black Family of Gaston County, NC.
* I believe this to be a typo, since other records (and plain old common sense) indicates William Snead's death date to actually be June of 1949.