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Dear Cousin Janis,
I have a couple of websites where you can learn more. you can contact me at burtwood(a)pacbell.net to get them.
Thomas and Dicey Chavis were William Owen chavis's parents and I have six children listed. i'd like to know more about you and your immediate family.
Burt
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Hi Cousin Janis, Just joining in as a real beginner in this process. It is so interesting to see others that have gathered so much information about my Grandfather, Maston Cleveland Chavous, Grandmother Henrietta Williams and GGrandparents William and Telitha Chavous. I don't know anything beyond my GGrandparents. I don't have very much written information but my father Barney Chavous passed on a rich oral history. I do have pictures of Maston Chavous and Henrietta Williams. Thanks so much for all the information you have gathered on the family and I look forward to finding out more about the Chavous'.
BOOK ON INDIAN CEMETERIES OF ROBESON COUNTY
The Robeson County Historical & Genealogical Society announces the
publication of the book "Sacred Grounds" by one of their own members,
Jane Blanks Barnhill, of St. Pauls, NC.
"Sacred Grounds", A survey of Indian cemeteries of Robeson County,
and surrounding areas
by JANE BLANKS BARNHILL of St. Pauls, North Carolina.
Sacred Grounds is a labor of love which the compiler has for her
people, the Lumbee Indians of Robeson County and surrounding areas. For
several years now, Jane Blanks Barnhill, along with her granddaughter
Ashley, and other family and friends have diligently searched the
countryside and visited more than 160 Indian cemeteries here in Robeson
County, carefully transcribing the information from each stone. All
together there are 374 pages, jammed packed with information from more than
ten thousand burial sites. The book in unindexed, but the cemeteries are
arranged in alphabetical order by the cemetery names. These cemeteries
are new, and old, private family cemeteries as well as large community and
church cemeteries. Some are well kepted while others are overgrown, and
are hidden away, as untouched time capsules of the past, nestled back in
the dense wood and swamp lands of rural Robeson County.
The driving point behind Jane Barnhill's quest is the disappearances
of old tombstones, and old family plots each year by what we know as
"progress". While it is illegal for the desecration and destruction of
these stones, plots and cemeteries. In many cases once these old
tombstones are destroyed, and the broken pieces are consumed by the
overgrowing landscape, then vital records of their names, births, deaths,
etc... are lost forever. In many cases these births and deaths occurred
years before the State of North Carolina made a law to record them in the
counties; therefore, Barnhills book is the only written record of this
information.
The purpose of this book is to help others in future generations, to
know where their families were buried. Barnhill says "There is so much
construction going on today that I feel so many of these cemeteries will be
lost as some have already. I have seen family land with family cemeteries
on it sold and the cemeteries destroyed. I just wanted to preserve some
type of record. This is not all, but I am continuing to work on them as I
have time. I truly hope that it helps you."
She has included a cemetery from Scotland County and one from South
Carolina along with the Robeson County Cemeteries because some of our folks
who had family buried there wanted them listed. Many of the people buried
there were born in Robeson County.
The names of the cemeteries included in her book are: Antioch
Baptist Church, Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, Back Swamp, Baker's
Chapel, Barton, Barton-Locklear, Bayside Freewill Baptist Church, Bear
Swamp Baptist Church, Bell [2], Benson's Chapel Church, Berea Baptist
Church, Bethel Hill Baptist Church, Beulah Baptist Church, Blue, Brayboy
[2], Bryant, Bullard [4], Burnette, Burnette [2], Burnt Swamp Baptist
Church, Old Burnt Swamp Baptist Church, Carter, Carter-Chavis, Chavis [3],
Cheatham, Cherokee Chapel Holiness Methodist Church, Christian, Clark [2],
Collins, Community Holiness Church, Cummings [2], Deep Branch Baptist
Church, Deese [2], Dial [2], Dimery, Dogwood Baptist Church, Elrod Baptist
Church, Emanuel, Everlasting Life, Family, Fields, Freedom Assembly,
Friendly Temple Church, Galilee Baptist Church, God's Holy Assembly,
Goings, Graham/Lowery, Hagans, Hammonds [4], Hardin, Harpers Ferry Baptist
Church [2], Hickory Hill Church, Hopewell Methodist Church, House of Christ
Freewill Baptist Church, Hunt [7], Iona, Island Grove Baptist Church,
Jacobs [3], Lambert-Brewer, Light of Truth Holiness Church, Little Zion
Freewill Baptist Church, Locklear families [17], Locklear-Cummings,
Locklear-McMillan, Locklear-Porter, Locklear-Smith, Lowery/Lowry [7],
Lumbee Memorial Gardens, Maynor, McGirt, McNeill, Monroe, Moore, Mt. Airy
Baptist Church, Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, Mt. Olive Baptist Church, New
Bethel Holiness Methodist Church [2], New Point Baptist Church, New
Prospect Methodist Church, Oxendine [5], Oxendine-Locklear, Pentecostal
Church of Christ, Piney Grove Church, Pleasant Grove United Methodist
Church, Pleasant View Baptist Church, Preston, Prospect United Methodst
Church, Reedy Branch Baptist Church, Revels [2], Old Revels-Hammonds,
Robeson Memorial Park, Salem Missrionary Baptist Church, Sandcutt, Sandy
Plains, Shannon Assembly, Old Smyrna Baptist Church, St. Anna Freewill
Baptist Church, Ten Mile Center Baptist Church, Thomas Family, Thomas
Family [2], Thompson Community Baptist Church, Union Light Baptist Church,
West family, West Saddletree Baptist Church, Whitehill Freewill Baptist
Church, Wilkins, Willard's Chapel, Zion Hill Baptist Church. Also included
are Stewartsville Cemetery in Scotland County, and Beaverdam in McColl,
Marlboro Co SC, and Pee Dee Chapel Baptist Church in Dillon Co NC.
This book is by no means complete, for there are many other Indian
cemeteries yet to be recorded in Robeson County. But Barnhill plans to
continue to search for, and record other Indian cemeteries that are not
included in this book.
This book is a "must have" for all of those people interested in
their Lumbee Roots. For those interested, these books are now available
and can be ordered directly from the author. The cost of the book is
$25.00, plus $5.00 for postage. You may order directly from Jane B.
Barnhill, 541 Martin Rd, St. Pauls, NC 28384.
--
Sam West
e-mail: sam.west.1(a)gmail.com
"Not all of us can do great things, but we all can do small things in a
great way."
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I was married to Roy Hunt and his mother's name on the birth certificate looks like Ammie Luie Chavis who married a Nathaniel Hunt. If there is anyone who might like to shear some info on them please help me. I know there was kin in S.C. and N.C. Roy was born in Robeson county in 1942 and at the time his father was 24 and mother was 20. I would love to trace the family tree and find out more on then.
Ruby