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In August 2014, Lennon Lacy, a student attending West Bladen High School, was found dead, hanging from the frame of a swing set in the center of a mobile home community. [5] The death was initially declared a suicide by North Carolina's Chief Medical Examiner, but Lacy's family believed that he had been lynched . [ 5 ]
It is one of 15 townships within the county. Bladenboro Township is 63.79 square miles (165.2 km 2) [1] in size, and is located in southwestern Bladen County. At the 2010 census, the population of Bladenboro Township was 6,009. In 2022, the estimated population of the township was 5,706. [4] Communities within the township include Bladenboro ...
In the center of Hillcrest portion of the cemetery, above the Memorial Lawn section, is the Singing Tower. The Art Deco Singing Tower was built in 1931, and was modeled after the famous Bok Tower in Lake Wales, Florida. [1] The Tower plays music daily from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. [1] A funeral home located within the cemetery perimeter opened in ...
Eaton opened the first funeral home on dedicated cemetery grounds after a battle with established funeral directors, who saw the "combination" operation as a threat. He remained as general manager until his death in 1966, when he was succeeded by his nephew, Frederick Llewellyn. [1]
Originally form Virginia the J.A. Evans Family moved from Edgecombe County, N.C. through Nash County, N.C. to Pine Level in Johnston County, N.C. in 1850 A.D. and started a farm which eventually through land purchases became the 6,000 acre Tall Pines Plantation, Founded in 1870 A.D. by Jane Barns Evans widow of J.A. Evans CSA.
God's Acre Cemetery (also known as Salem Moravian God's Acre and Salem Moravian Graveyard) is a cemetery for the Moravian congregation in Old Salem, North Carolina.It is located around 100 yards (91 m) north of the town's Home Moravian Church and also serves the thirteen member churches of Salem's congregation: Ardmore, Bethesda, Calvary, Christ, Fairview, Fires, Home, Immanuel New Eden ...
Pinecrest or Pine Crest may refer to: Places. Canada. Pinecrest, a station on the Transitway (Ottawa) United States. Pinecrest, California; ...
The cemetery is the final resting place of a wide cross-section of prominent Carolinians: authors Thomas Wolfe and William Sydney Porter (better known by his pseudonym O. Henry); former North Carolina governor and Senator Zebulon Baird Vance and his two wives, Harriett Newell Espy Vance and Florence Steele Martin Vance; Farmer and slave owner ...