Wallace Cemetery

Onslow County, NC

Surveyed by Gail Bullock Sep 2005




The following is a complete listing of the tombstones in the Wallace Cemetery in Onslow County, NC.

Location behind the house and lot known as 201 N Wilmington St, Richlands. It is enclosed by an iron fence. A smaller cemetery, once enclosed by an iron fence, is on the same lot with the house and is behind the house at 201 N Wilmington St. The house was built in 1965 on the location where Emma’s Chapel was built in 1881, also known as Free Will Baptist Church. The chapel was torn down in the early 1960s when Richlands First Baptist Church moved from there to its new home.

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    GPS Coordinates:
    34.901328 N
    77.545707 W

    The epitaphs are as follows:

    Steven R Wallace Sep 11 1811 Mar 27 1856 Jas G Wallace Oct 16 1837 Sep 25 1858 Sarah A Gibbs Jul 1 1840 Jul 15 1875 Wilmington NC B B Barry Jul 30 1834 May 25 1863 Mary C Wife of George E Brooks Apr 6 1846 Apr 28 1902 Age 56 yrs 22 dys John W Shackelford Sergeant Company H 3 NC Calvary Confederate States Army Nov 16 1844 Jan 18 1883

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