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John Ware Cemetery

Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA

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Get directions Kings Mountain, North Carolina, USA

Coordinates: 35.25192, -81.45025
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The so-called John Ware cemetery is located on a small knoll approximately 3/4 mile east of Buffalo Creek and north of East Dixon Boulevard (Hwy. 74) between Kings Mountain and Shelby. This was one of many Cleveland County cemeteries recorded in the 1939 WPA Cemetery Survey. The survey workers recorded four (4) marked graves and five (5) unmarked graves, although a local informant indicated there may be as many as thirty (30) or forty (40) burials at the site. If true, the additional burials would have to be other than the WARE family. It has been suggested that possibly the Anthony, Potts and/or Dye families had used the cemetery in earlier times, but no proof of this. A section of the cemetery may also have been allocated for slave burials. As of 1982, all markers had been lost although the owner at the time pointed out the location where he remembered the grave markers being. More recently the site is threatened by construction of the highway 74 bypass and private development. Due to land division, a portion of the knoll is now on DOT right-of-way and the remainder privately owned.

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