Elijah Ratliff Cemetery
Lilesville, Anson County, North Carolina, USA
South of Samuel Spencers Plantation.
West of NC 145 / Pee Dee area and South of present Day US Highway 74. Elijah was buried near his home .
The site now believed unaccessable is owned by the Gravel and Mining Companies. Elijah gave The Property for Gum Springs Baptist Church and Cemetery to the Church.
Elijah Descibed his Plantation Location as follows in his will's sec paragraph
"Beginning at the certain Northwest
corner of William Clarks lands (his lands on the north side of Island Creek) and runs a direct line
to a poplar on the bank of a branch near when the old shop stood then up the various causes of said branch to the Wall ferry Road then up said road to the line of the Walls lands then around with my outside lines and with Wall and Spencer line to Island Creek then around with my other
outside lines until it comes to Island Creek again then with William Clarks lands to the beginning."
Elijah's Will is on file at the Anson County Court House
Wadesboro,N C and can also be found and viewed on line @
His will can be found and viewed on line @ http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm
Contributed bt Patti Smith Lamb a Ratliff / Smith / Diggs family Genealogist.
South of Samuel Spencers Plantation.
West of NC 145 / Pee Dee area and South of present Day US Highway 74. Elijah was buried near his home .
The site now believed unaccessable is owned by the Gravel and Mining Companies. Elijah gave The Property for Gum Springs Baptist Church and Cemetery to the Church.
Elijah Descibed his Plantation Location as follows in his will's sec paragraph
"Beginning at the certain Northwest
corner of William Clarks lands (his lands on the north side of Island Creek) and runs a direct line
to a poplar on the bank of a branch near when the old shop stood then up the various causes of said branch to the Wall ferry Road then up said road to the line of the Walls lands then around with my outside lines and with Wall and Spencer line to Island Creek then around with my other
outside lines until it comes to Island Creek again then with William Clarks lands to the beginning."
Elijah's Will is on file at the Anson County Court House
Wadesboro,N C and can also be found and viewed on line @
His will can be found and viewed on line @ http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm
Contributed bt Patti Smith Lamb a Ratliff / Smith / Diggs family Genealogist.
Nearby cemeteries
Lilesville, Anson County, North Carolina, USA
- Total memorials17
- Percent photographed100%
- Percent with GPS0%
Lilesville, Anson County, North Carolina, USA
- Total memorials15
- Percent photographed80%
- Percent with GPS0%
Lilesville, Anson County, North Carolina, USA
- Total memorials12
- Percent photographed92%
- Percent with GPS0%
Lilesville, Anson County, North Carolina, USA
- Total memorials13
- Percent photographed69%
- Percent with GPS0%
- Added: 3 May 2009
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2304101
Success
Uploading...
Waiting...
Failed
This photo was not uploaded because this cemetery already has 20 photos
This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this cemetery
This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this cemetery
Invalid File Type
Birth and death years unknown.
1 photo picked...
2 photos picked...
Uploading 1 Photo
Uploading 2 Photos
1 Photo Uploaded
2 Photos Uploaded
Size exceeded
Too many photos have been uploaded
"Unsupported file type"
• ##count## of 0 memorials with GPS displayed. Double click on map to view more.No cemeteries found