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111    LEWTER - YATES FAMILY (relocated)

Location - Green Level Church Rd./Ferson Rd. Green Level, White Oak Twp., Wake Co., NC. (relocated to Green Level Baptist Church Cemetery)

Coordinates: 35d 47m 37.3s N; 78d 55m 07.8s W Click here for Online Maps

Surveyed by Shirley Olson on October 9, 2004.

Directions: from the intersection of Hwy. 55 and Green Level West Rd. (SR 1615), Apex, take Green Level Rd. West 1.7 miles to the "Y" of Green Level West Rd. and Beaver Dam Rd. Take Beaver Dam Rd. .2 miles to the stop sign at the intersection of Beaver Dam and Green Level Church Rd. (SR 1600). Turn right onto Green Level Church Rd., and go 2. 4 mi. (approx.) to the point where Ferson St. intersects from the right. On your left, set back on Green Level Church Rd. is a large white farmhouse in ruins. A rough driveway, overgrown with weeds will bring you up to the house and continues beyond to the ruins of a barn. The farm land is overgrown with weeds and beyond that, a little way into the woods, is the remains of this cemetery. This is an abandoned cemetery.

This property was aquired by Joseph John Yates about 1876 and the house built about that time. The house is featured "The Historic Architecture of Wake County", Page 338, as well as the smoke house that is located behind the house and described as "a rare half-dovetail-notched plank smokehouse with an overhanging gable-front roof." I found this cemetery through Rosemary Neal (thank you Rosemary) who spotted the legal notice in the Apex Herald announcing the intention to relocate the remains of those buried here to Green Level Baptist Church Cemetery, and the plan to deposit the record of the reinterment with the Wake County Health Dept., which has the responsibility for maintaining records of moved graves. The notice in the newspaper incorrectly named the intersection as Person St., instead of Ferson St.

Unreadable broken headstone, dates 12 May 1826 and 5 Oct 1907
There appear to be about 7 unmarked graves in addition to these.

1. Lewter, Charles Madison   (b. 16 Jun 1841 - d. 12 May 1910)
2. Lewter, Fidelia   (b. - d. )
no dates, shared with Charles Madison Lewter
3. Lewter, Florie   (b. - d. )
no dates, shared with Fidelia and Charles Madison Lewter
4. Unknown, Illegible   (b. 12 May 1826 - d. 5 Oct 1907)
stone broken
5. Yates, Hinton   (b. 25 Jun 1821 - d. 15 Apr 1891)