[shelby research]The Rocky Spring Cemetery in Mecklenburg

[MARTHA MORDECAI]

Thanks Judy.

This cemetery is hard to find due to its wooded location. It is on the north
side of Brief Rd. near the intersection with Hwy. 218. It sits about 1500
feet from the road and can be reached by going down a dirt drive to the left
of the cemetery.
I'm sure the Philadelphia Presby. Church can give specific directions.

Martha




>From: John Trolinger <jdt@trolinger.com>
>Reply-To: shelby@lists.trolinger.com
>To: Judith A Trolinger <hoberta@hilconet.com>,shelby@lists.trolinger.com
>Subject: [shelby research]The Rocky Spring Cemetery in Mecklenburg
>Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 07:02:09 -0400
>
>
>ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nc/mecklenburg/cemeteries/oldphil.txt
>
>
>
>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!
>
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