The following is a complete listing of the tombstones in the Dempsey White Cemetery in Perquimans County, NC.
Location: 191 Dempsey White Rd. back in the field behind the trailer.
This cemetery is on the verge of being lost forever due to the farmer plowing the ground around it and trying to take in the cemetery. If you are a descendant of the people buried here, please take steps to try and protect it before it is completely lost!
View photos of the headstones here.
Google map to find this cemetery
GPS Coordinates:
36° 17.074 N
76° 24.996 W
The epitaphs are as follows:
RL White
Aug 2 1874
Jun 29 1918
Broken Stone
White
Dec 10 1842
Rest of stone broken and missing
Broken Stone
Broken Stone
**Note:
I went back to piece together the broken stones and this is what was found:
(see photos)
White
Dec 10 1842
Aug 9 1911
James A
Son of
???? ??tha
According to Jean Wood Paschal this is what the above stone should read:
James A White
Son of
Dempsey & Martha White
Dec 10 1842
Aug 9 1911
From an email from Jean Wood Paschal:
I just saw the pictures you had posted on the Dempsey White Cemetery and
believe that this is the same place where my great grandfather was buried.
My father (Ralph E. Wood) took me there in January of 1996 and showed me
where his grandfather John Quincy Adams White had been buried in 1910.
These are copies of the pictures I took of that Cemetery at that time and as
you will see, I was not able to even see one headstone because it was so
overgrown. It was originally surrounded by a Iron fence that is now gone I
guess. He cleared away some of the briars and undergrowth in the corner by
the fence that is pictured where he said he thought his grandfather’s grave
had been.
Daddy said that his grandfather had a stone marker with J. Q. A. White
engraved on it and two year dates but he didn’t know what the years were.
He also couldn’t remember if anything else was ingraved on it or not. From
my research I know that John Quincy Adams White was born in 1852 and he died
in 1910 so the two years he saw probably looked like this 1852 – 1910.
He also said that this was his mother’s (Glennie White Wood) family cemetery
and that a lot of her family had been buried there. Both his mother Glennie
Wood and his grandmother Elvira White were with my father the day he saw the
cemetery as a boy. He said that his mother showed him the grave of her
grandfather Dempsey Josiah White which was located on the other side of the
cemetery from John Q.A. White’s grave but he could not remember what had been
engraved on that stone.
Also, I have a bit more information for you on the headstone you put back
together. All those pieces probably belonged to the same headstone.
White James A
Dec 10 1842 Son of
Aug 9 1911 ??? ??tha
James A. White was the son of Dempsey Josiah White and Martha Lowe White and
brother of John Q. A. White.
He was born 10 Dec 1842 and died 9 Aug 1911
If you think this is the same cemetery feel free to use these pictures of
what it looked like in 1996.
Diane Siniard Send your questions (and thanks) directly to Diane.
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