CEMETERIES of Long Ago.......
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Winston-Salem Journal, Jan 4, 1917

INTERMENTS IN THE SALEM CEMETERY AND GRAVEYARD

The annual report of Supt. H.S. Foy of the Salem cemetery and Moravian graveyard for the past year showing the number of
interments follows:

"My records for the year 1916 show the total number of interments in the Salem cemetery and Moravian graveyard to have been
128, divided as follows:  ninety-one in the cemetery and thirty-seven in the graveyard;  married men 34, average age sixty-two
years;  married women, forty, whose ages average fifty-six years and six months;  unmarried men fourteen, average age
thirty-one;  unmarried women, eight, average age forty-three years and two months;  children under ten years number
twenty(?)-two.  Out of this number six were premature and also there were untimely deaths.  No one died from typhoid fever and
only three fro scarlet fever and three from diptheria.