Richard Parker Family Cemetery in Gold Hill, North Carolina

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Get directions River Road
Gold Hill, North Carolina, USA

Coordinates: 35.51884, -80.22567
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On a wooded hill overlooking River Road on property formerly owned by Richard Parker Sr. and subsequently his descendants. No longer used, it is surrounded by the remains of a rock wall has become severely overgrown. The earliest gravestone by far is one inscribed to Richard Parker, "Soldier of the Revolutionary War 1750-1832," clearly erected many years after 1832. Whether it is a cenotaph or marks the spot of the actual grave is unknown.

**NOTE: The Daughters of the Revolution (DAR) do not list a wife for the patriot Richard Parker. He is believed to have married twice, first to a Mary Harris and second to a Sarah Lentz, but when and where either wife died or is buried is not known. No evidence has been found in this cemetery for a grave of either wife.

** 27 readable markers were identified in the 1980s when Vivian Earnhardt Caldwell tirelessly cleaned, surveyed and maintained the cemetery.