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Note: Joseph Lunsford Cemetery - Lucy Garrett Road Location: Lucy Garrett Road across from intersection with Billy Hicks Road Directions: From Roxboro, take Old Durham Road to Lucy Garrett Road. Cemetery is on right. Access: Inside massive stone wall near road. Survey: March 2007 by Ken and Becky Dalton GPS: 36 20 25.9 N 078 58 04.8 W Notes: Stones are laying down and covered by periwinkle and ivy. There are several fieldstones but only 3 marked by carved tombstone. Graves 1. Joseph LUNSFORD / Born Apr 8, 1779 / Married / Elizabeth Howard / Jan 2, 1817 / Who died June 7th, 1834 / He afterwards married / Rebecca Jones / Nov 4th, 1837 / & died Dec 20th, 1855 / 2. Elizabeth HOWARD / Wife of / Joseph LUNSFORD / Born Apr 1, 1797 / Died Jun 7th, 1834 / Leaving four children / Jesse Anderson / Rebecca Jones / Allen Howard / and / Mary Ann / 3. Elmira TROTTER / was born Feb 18th, 1821 / married / Jesse A Lunsford / Nov 10th, 1842 / and died / (broken stone) 2nd, 1863 leaving eight children / Elizabeth Frances / Joseph Addison / Virginia Elmira / Ira Thomas / John Calvin Calhoon / George Allen / Jesse Jones / Rebecca Ella / She said on her deathbed / if it was the will of the Lord / to take her she would be / better off and repeatedly said / Bless the Lord / Remember friend as you pass by / as you are now so once was I / As I am now so you will be / prepare for death and follow me / Blessed are they who die in the Lord / http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncperson/lunsford-joseph-cemetery-lucy-garrett-road.htm ------- Rec'd emai Sep 2007 from Sue Howard Wilkerson, confirming that his dtr was my Rebecca Jones Lunsford. Sue (Howard) Wilkerson of TX Gerald Alden Howard Virginia Thomas (Bumpass) Howard Thomas Bumpass and Elmira Lunsford -------- Joseph Lunsford Person County North Carolina Record Books 1812 Abstracts #179 John Bumpass Sr. Will Record July 12, 1812 Daughters Prudence Paine, Molly McVay, Sally Yarbrough, Elizabeth Bumpass, Lucy Jennings, grandson Robert Paine, sons John and Gabriel. Exec: son John and Samuel Dickens. Wit: Joseph Lunsford Senior and Jr. Person County, North Carolina 1814 Tax List Capt. Fowler's District Joseph Lunsford Jr. Person County, North Carolina 1835 Book 6 Page 516 Allen Howard to Joseph Lunsford of Person County, North Carolina. "...two Negro boys by the names of Jesse & John..." Person County, North Carolina Howard, Solomon to Joseph Lunsford..."Negro slave named Jane aged about thirteen years.." (BOS-1839,p.205, book 10) Person County, North Carolina Estate Record Joseph Lunsford 1855
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