[shelby research]The Rocky Spring Cemetery in Mecklenburg

[John Trolinger]

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Judith A Trolinger wrote:

> Thanks!
>   Hope this helps...
>
> Mom
>
> This is the discription of the location that I have.
>
> Col Adam Alexander & Mary (Shelby) are buried in the neglected Rock Spring
> graveyard, located 2 miles north of the Philadelphia Presbyterian Church,
> on a knoll about 500 feet from the road that leads to Stanley Corners,
> Marven and Albermarle. The cemetery is surrounded by a delapidated stone
> wall & covered with second growth timber & underbrush--One of the oldest,
> if not the oldest, burial places in the county.
>
> The single stone marking the resting place of Adam & Mary consists of a
> finely dressed white marble slab, about 4 feet in height upon which is
> carved in perpendicular columns their names, birth & death dates.
>
> Mary Shelby, born 1735 PA, was the youngest child of Evan Shelby and
> Catherine Morgan.
>      Will of Mary Alexander - Meckl Co, NC, Book A, p17, dated 2 Feb 1811-
> to daughter Polly HARRIS, slave Nancy. Residue of my property is to be
> divided equally between my 5 living children. Mary signs. Names son Isaac
> Alexander, as sole Executor.
>
> Don't have a clue where this is, unless there are files concerning the
> Alexander's:
> Found among the records in the Raleigh Archives, a tiny scrap of paper-
> "received January first 1814, from Isaac Alexander the sum of five dollars
> for making his mother's coffin." signed by Rankin Alexander.
>
> Martha posted additional info on the Ancestry message board a couple of
> days ago:
> http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=an&p=surnames.shelby&m=562.2.1.1.1.2
>
> I found Rock Springs Cemetery in Mint Hill, NC at the corner of Union,
> Cabarrus and Mecklenburg Counties. It was a mess; a pile of dirt about as
> large as a small front yard full of leaves, sticks, holes and stones from
> the time of the Revolutionary War. It was unsafe to walk through.
> Philadelphia Presbyterian Church, Mint Hill, had the cemetery deed back
> from a family who bought the land from the Wilson family. This Wilson
> family had been in Mecklenburg Co., since abt. 1750. I truly believe that,
> when the site is restored, there will be found numerous headstones under
> the dirt, and one probably will be that of Isabel's Moses Shelby. Martha
>
> At 09:40 PM 7/28/03 -0400, you wrote:
> >Yes.  I have been to mint hill cemeteries and don't have that one written
> >down.  Where is it?  I know someone that can go by and check it out that
> >lives in Mint Hill.
> >
> >I-485 is -very slowly- making it's way around Charlotte.  Mapquest is
> >based on the county map and is off by a mile.
> >
> >Interesting fact:
> >Although Queen Charlotte was queen of england; she was from
> >Mecklenburg-Stelit in Germany!