CEMETERY (Black)
The cemetery was less than one fourth mile from Turnpike Road on the Craney
Island Road, just across the Cypress Run on the right, and was up a lane going
to the home place of the late James T. Winslow. There was a black cemetery not
far from the road on the left side of the lane. Asa Stallings recalls his
mother saying she remembers people being buried there. It grew up in woods and
then was taken into cultivation.
INDIAN CEMETERY
About three fourths of a mile down Craney Island Road, just east of the Juniper
Run, on a hill on the right side of the road, was an Indian Cemetery. This was
what Asa Stallings had been told by generations before him and he remembers a
large rock there many years ago, but it has since disappeared.
HOLLOWELL CEMETERY
The Hollowell Cemetery was about 1.3 miles on Craney Island Road from Turnpike
Road. It was just past the Elias Stallings home place and where Craney Island
Road turns into a narrow sandy road. It is on the left side of the lane going
to the Stallings Cemetery. Asa Stallings was told there were Hollowells,
Riddicks, and a baby of James Stallings buried there. It was a large cemetery.
It is a wooded area and there were several lightwood stakes marking graves.
Hollowells owned the land before the James Stallings bought it.
WILLIAM SEXTON CEMETERY
Now under cultivation the cemetery was located on the Craney Island Road about
1.7 miles from the Turnpike Road. The cemetery was just across an iron bridge
which was placed there in recent years due to the draining of the Dismal Swamp.
Asa Stallings says he was told that a large water oak tree that was once there
marked the head of his grave. Sexton was living in that area at the time of his
death.
SKINNER CEMETERY
On further down the sandy portion of Craney Island Road in a northwest direction
on a sand hill was the Skinner Cemetery. This cemetery is now under
cultivation. The Skinners owned this land.
WHITE CEMETERY (BLACK)
About a hundred yards west of the Skinner Cemetery is the White Cemetery on a
ridge in the woods beside the Perquimans River Swamp, and near the end of Craney
Island Road. The earlier Whites were freed slaves and owned the land. There
are supposedly several generations of Whites buried there. There are no stones,
but railroad irons and other pieces of iron mark the graves. Asa Stallings
remembers Willis White, Amy White, Lace White, and Jane White being buried
there. Jane White was the last one buried there.
There were cemeteries down the old Long Swamp Road which ran across the
Perquimans River Swamp from Craney Island Road to Sandy Cross Road (#1204)
Several families lived on the road, and it was a much traveled road. The Long
Swamp Road was made impassable by a large landowner who cut a big ditch through
it trying to drain the Dismal Swamp. The road is now grown up in woods.
NOAH STALLINGS CEMETERY
Asa Stallings was told that his great, grandfather Noah Stallings and his wife,
Elizabeth were buried off the Long Swamp Road. Elizabeth was supposedly buried
beside the road and later her body was moved to the back of the field where her
husband Noah was buried. Asa remembers his father showing him the hole were
Elizabeth was first buried and the cemetery where Noah and Elizabeth were
buried.
JONES CEMETERY (Black)
Across the road from the Noah Stallings' farm was where one of the Hayward
Jones' children (black) was buried. Asa Stallings remembers a rail fence around
the grave. There were possibly other people buried there.
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