The following is a complete listing of the tombstones in the Samuel R King Cemetery in Onslow County, NC.
Location from Blue Creek Rd turn on East Gate Drive, take the next right (Pollard Dr) then the next left on Carlisle Ct. The cemetery is on the left behind 305 Carlisle Ct inside a locked chain link fence. Well maintained.
On a 1939 report compiled by the Historical Records Survey of North Carolina, this cemetery was referred to as the Wells Cemetery. NC Death Certificates continued to call this cemetery the Wells Cemetery for many years after 1939.
View Google map here.
View photos of the headstones here.
GPS Coordinates:
34.75465 N
77.48858 W
The epitaphs are as follows:
Samuel R King
Nov 9 1840
May 5 1917
Annie Elizabeth
Wife of
Samuel R King
Jul 27 1851
Sep 10 1948
Stella
Daughter of
S R & Elizabeth King
Apr 24 1879
Feb 11 1899
Annie
Daughter of
S R & A E King
Wife of
Julian Avery
Oct 11 1876
Nov 10 1898
Emma Avery
Wife of
L M Avery
Jul 28 1872
Aug 12 1896
Willie
Son of
L M & Emma Avery
Mar 1894
May 1894
Lena
Daughter of
R A & India Lockamy
Jun 12 1892
Nov 26 1892
Julia Elizabeth
Daughter of
J E & Louisa Brown
Oct 7 1874
Sep 25 1879
James W
Son of
J E & Louisa Brown
Oct 8 1870
Nov 10 1875
Arthur
Son of
S R & A E King
Nov 13 1874
Aug 25 1880
Julia
Daughter of
J E & A E King
Feb 5 1886
Aug 6 1886
Dora
Daughter of
J E & A E King
Aug 26 1880
Aug 18 1893
James J Wells
Co B
3 NC Cav
CSA
Hannah Wells
Feb 18 1821
Jun 24 1903
Arthur G
Son of
H W & N M Britton
Jun 21 1887
Jun 15 1891
John B Wells
Jul 20 1860
Oct 20 1929
Eliza Ann
Wife of
John B Wells
Mar 27 1868
Feb 16 1923
Double Stone
Harrell
Zeb Vance
Apr 3 1883
Feb 18 1945
Martha E Wells
Jan 19 1892
NOD
Alvin Gerald Petteway
SP4 US Army
Dec 21 1946
Aug 11 1984
Charles J Petteway
Jan 14 1955
Sep 4 1963
Donald Ray Petteway
Pvt US Army
Korea
1931-1985
Alvin F Petteway
Husband of
Josephine Petteway
Feb 6 1883
Apr 8 1963
Josephine W Petteway
Sep 22 1907
Aug 15 1995
Martha Elizabeth
Wife of
Edward F Pollard
Feb 16 1866
Jun 16 1910
Infant
Son of
J E & Louisa Brown
Jul 8 1884
Dorsey Jay Petteway
PFC US Army
Korea
Dec 28 1931
Sep 17 1998
B J Pollard
Jan 20 1803
Jan 17 1870
Lucindie J
Wife of
B J Pollard
Sep 25 1831
May 28 1905
Isaac Benjamin
Son of
J E & Louisa Brown
Nov 22 1868
Apr 3 1881
No Photos:
Mattie L Pollard
Nov 2 1885
Jul 23 1896
Eliza Wells
Jan 23 1910
Sep 1913
James R Wells
May 30 1889
Jun 4 1891
Lucy Lee Wells
Jan 24 1895
Mar 10 1897
Sallie Wells
May 1 1905
Nov 5 1906
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