"STRANGER'S" GRAVEYARD
aka Single's Graveyard
in Salem Cemetery
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SURNAME
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FIRST NAME
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DOB/PLACE
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DOD/Forsyth Co
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MOTHER
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FATHER
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CAUSE OF DEATH
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SEX/RACE
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OCCUPATION
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D.C. NUMBER
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LUMLY
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SARAH Elizabeth
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3-31-1860 NC
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10-9-1912
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Susan Hailey
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Henry Cooper
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TB
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Female-White
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Housekeeper
Husband
Marion Lumly
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188
per Salem
Cemetery
records 54B
Single section
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LUMLY
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MARION
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Mar 21, 1859
Forsyth Co., NC
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July 3, 1921
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Rebecca
Bowden
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Jesse Lumley
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Male-white
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DC 94
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BROWN
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NELSON
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ca 1826
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Aug 5, 1859
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consumption
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male-white
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tailor
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per Salem
Cemetery
records A-71
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The history of the strangers' graveyard can be traced through the various volumes of Records of the Morvians in North Carolina. Early there was a distinction between
God's Acre and a so-called parish graveyard which was meant for strangers and later used as a burial place for Negroes. Then certain sections were designated for
strangers and questions came up rather often as to burial of non-Moravians in the graveyard. The question often arose in country congregations also.
(Source: Records of Moravians, Vol IX, page 4675)
April 26, 1838: Records of the Moravians Vol IX,, page 4411: The question was raised as to whether the Council has any objection to permission being given to neighbors
to bury their dead in the Salem graveyard.....Recently the decision was left to the Aufs. Coll. entirely with the condition that it is quite clear that children in the boarding school,
workers from the cotton mill and strangers staying in the Salem Tavern can be buried in the Salem graveyard. Two dollars are to be paid for any burial in the graveyard, a
regular tombstone is to be bought and the funeral is to be held by a Salem minister....
Only a few brethren were in favor of starting a new separate row for strangers, buried in the graveyard, if this row is filled up.
The Council therefore decided that in the future the strangers are to be buried in the same row with members of the Salem community. The majority agree to demand $5
instead of $2 from strangers. All agree that the tombstone for strangers are to be of the regular size and with simple writing only.