This Cemetery is part of my Family ( Ratcliff ) and I have identified both Marked and Unmarked Plots with in a Old Iron Fence near on a Hill over looking the Great Pee Dee River on the Anson County side of Old Cairo NC where William Ratcliff and his son Thomas Ratcliff settled after immigrating from Colonial Maryland. Thomas Ratcliff's plantation Home was close to this Cemetery.
Thomas Ratliff was a Practicing Quaker and before burials were Common with a Engraved Marker only field stones mark a burial Plot.
There are 8 Marked graves and 9 unmarked / Unlabeled (Graves) with only Field stones (Quaker Tradition) also 4 spaces with no Fieldstones nor Engrave Marker--one of the unlabeled graves is logically Thomas Ratcliff since it is his Cemetery on his Land he purchased from James Parson.
Another field stone / unlabeled Grave is logicaly Sarah Diggs Ratliff next to Thomas.
Thomas and Sarah's grandson James "Big Jim" Ratliff is buried in the South East Corner per Marion Thompson Ratliff
a Ratliff Historian This Leaves 6 Graves unnamed / unlabeled. plus 4 apparantly unused spaces.
Thomas and Sarah's Grandson William Ratliff and Mary Jane Hinson possibly are also buried here. Their son B T is buried here
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 34.87241, Longitude: -79.91833
Direction by car:
Cemetery can be found by going East from Morven NC on State Rd 145 from it's intersection with US 52 Morven NC travel 3.5 Miles on 145 to SR 1825 Shiloh Church Rd. Then east on 1825 to 1826 ( Down Town Old Cairo ) Left on 1826 traveling apprx 1.3 miles from Cairo SE just before the gravel road turns South toward Old Sneedboro a pre Civil War River Port. This area of 1826 is where the Pavement Ends. There is a Dirt Rd on the left with a gate. The Cemetery cannot be seen from 1826 and can be located by a short walk past the gate on Top of the Hill. Cemetery is surrounded by a metal fence. Without the present day Pines it would over look the Pee Dee River as would have Thomas Home.
1 ) Jerman, Mary E Ratliff
b. Aug. 12, 1885 d. Jul. 24, 1909
2) Ratcliff, Sarah Diggs wife of Thomas Ratcliff
b. 1758 d. 1827
3) Ratcliff, Thomas Revolutionary NC Militia son of Eleanor Burke Hall & William Ratcliff
b. 1756 d. 1830 of Colonial Maryland
4) Ratliff, B T son of Thomas Ratcliff's son William Francis Ratcliff
b. Oct. 14, 1852 d. Mar. 26, 1877
5) Ratliff, Charles Branch Son of Thomas J Ratcliff who was a son of Thomas Sr
b. Jul. 23, 1875 d. Aug. 9, 1899
6) Ratliff, Eliza Melissa Dabbs wife of Thomas J Ratliff
b. Sep. 27, 1848 d. May 11, 1915
7) Ratliff, Infant Son of Thomas J & wife E M Dabbs Ratcliff
b. May 20, 1883 d. Jun., 1883
8) Ratliff, James son of Elijah Ratliff (son) of Thomas and Sarah Diggs Ratliff
b. 1830 d. 1905
9) Ratliff, Mary Hellen Ratliff daughter of James Hamer Ratliff (1793 - 1849) Mary Jane Grady Ratliff (1800 - 1845)
b. 1825 d. Apr. 18, 1869
10) Ratliff, Thomas J Son of Elijah Ratliff and wife Nancy Jernigan
b. 1827 d. Jun. 6, 1880
11) Smith, Infant Son of Sidney Smith and Mary Helen Ratliff
b. unknown d. Dec. 12, 1874
Also believed to be buried here are William Francis Ratliff son of Elijah Ratliff and William's wife Mary Jane Hinson daughter of Elijah Clay Hinson. William and mary Jane are my Grt Grt Grandparents |
