Mitchell Family Cemetery

 

The Mitchell Family Cemetery is located on the Mitchell home place land in Greene Co., NC.  It is not marked, except by a concrete block wall which encircles it in the midst of a field.  Viola Turnage, a descendant of Penina Mitchell Harrison, was responsible for the placement of the wall.  She said it was being plowed up by Ben Hemby, who was farming the land.   The cemetery is close to the Lakeview Packing Company in La Grange, NC.

A listing of burials in this cemetery was made in 1966, and Viola Turnage kept a copy of the layout of the cemetery. 

Those buried in The Mitchell Family Cemetery are as follows:

• William Mitchell (Uncle Billy), 4^th son of Etheldred and  Nancy Mitchell, and a brother to B.W. Mitchell.   He was moderately retarded and never married.
• Benjamin W. Mitchell, born 1812, died 1898
• Mary Stanley Mitchell, his wife, born 1817, died 1882
• John Mooring, husband of Penina (Nina) Letchworth
• Penina Letchworth Mooring, born 1871, died 1934, daughter of Winnifred Letchworth
• Mary E. “Moll” Mitchell, daughter of BW and Mary E. Mitchell
• Benjamin Franklin Mitchell, son of BW and Mary E. Mitchell, served in the House of Representatives for Greene County, NC
• Millie Homes- unknown person, may have been unable to speak
• James Frank Mitchell, son of James Stanley and Mary D. Hodges Mitchell.  He was visiting his Mitchell relatives and was struck by lightning and died.
• Nancy Jane Hemby, daughter of BW and Mary E. Mitchell, born 1856, died 1932.  She was the wife of James Hemby
• Infant of Ben and Katy Harrison Hemby, no birth or death date given.   Katy Harrison Hemby was the granddaughter of Winifred Mitchell Letchworth.

 

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Maggie