This info is from a cemetery survey compiled in 1940 by the Historical Records Survey of North Carolina located in the Wake County Family Records Collection, State Archives. Please be aware that I have found numerous errors in spelling and dates, which leads me to believe that whoever transcribed the original had trouble reading the handwriting.
Dan Johnson pointed out the year of birth from the above mentioned survey, which was 1795, was in conflict with the year of birth of his sister Susan whose record can be found in "City Cemetery List of Interred" on the website of Raleigh Cemeteries. He suggested 1793 which is totally possible due to the above mentioned transcription errors.
Dan Johnson, Durham, NC, provided the following info citing the history of Raleigh found on the website for Raleigh's Joel Lane House (www.joellane.org):
"Wake Countians living on farms and plantations had their own family graveyards. Most city dwellers, however, renting or owning only a small portion of a city block, had no such space in which to inter the dead. In 1798, therefore, the assembly made provision for the city commissioners to lay off up to four acres of state-owned land adjacent to the city for "a public burying ground." Raleigh's City Cemetery just east of East Street, the boundary of the city at that time, was the result. The earliest grave appears to be that of the young son of Secretary of State William White, John Haywood White, who died in 1800."
Dan Johnson pointed out the year of birth from the above mentioned survey, which was 1795, was in conflict with the year of birth of his sister Susan whose record can be found in "City Cemetery List of Interred" on the website of Raleigh Cemeteries. He suggested 1793 which is totally possible due to the above mentioned transcription errors.
Dan Johnson, Durham, NC, provided the following info citing the history of Raleigh found on the website for Raleigh's Joel Lane House (www.joellane.org):
"Wake Countians living on farms and plantations had their own family graveyards. Most city dwellers, however, renting or owning only a small portion of a city block, had no such space in which to inter the dead. In 1798, therefore, the assembly made provision for the city commissioners to lay off up to four acres of state-owned land adjacent to the city for "a public burying ground." Raleigh's City Cemetery just east of East Street, the boundary of the city at that time, was the result. The earliest grave appears to be that of the young son of Secretary of State William White, John Haywood White, who died in 1800."
This info is from a cemetery survey compiled in 1940 by the Historical Records Survey of North Carolina located in the Wake County Family Records Collection, State Archives. Please be aware that I have found numerous errors in spelling and dates, which leads me to believe that whoever transcribed the original had trouble reading the handwriting.
Dan Johnson pointed out the year of birth from the above mentioned survey, which was 1795, was in conflict with the year of birth of his sister Susan whose record can be found in "City Cemetery List of Interred" on the website of Raleigh Cemeteries. He suggested 1793 which is totally possible due to the above mentioned transcription errors.
Dan Johnson, Durham, NC, provided the following info citing the history of Raleigh found on the website for Raleigh's Joel Lane House (www.joellane.org):
"Wake Countians living on farms and plantations had their own family graveyards. Most city dwellers, however, renting or owning only a small portion of a city block, had no such space in which to inter the dead. In 1798, therefore, the assembly made provision for the city commissioners to lay off up to four acres of state-owned land adjacent to the city for "a public burying ground." Raleigh's City Cemetery just east of East Street, the boundary of the city at that time, was the result. The earliest grave appears to be that of the young son of Secretary of State William White, John Haywood White, who died in 1800."
Dan Johnson pointed out the year of birth from the above mentioned survey, which was 1795, was in conflict with the year of birth of his sister Susan whose record can be found in "City Cemetery List of Interred" on the website of Raleigh Cemeteries. He suggested 1793 which is totally possible due to the above mentioned transcription errors.
Dan Johnson, Durham, NC, provided the following info citing the history of Raleigh found on the website for Raleigh's Joel Lane House (www.joellane.org):
"Wake Countians living on farms and plantations had their own family graveyards. Most city dwellers, however, renting or owning only a small portion of a city block, had no such space in which to inter the dead. In 1798, therefore, the assembly made provision for the city commissioners to lay off up to four acres of state-owned land adjacent to the city for "a public burying ground." Raleigh's City Cemetery just east of East Street, the boundary of the city at that time, was the result. The earliest grave appears to be that of the young son of Secretary of State William White, John Haywood White, who died in 1800."
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