Sumner Cemetery

Contributed by Dennis L. Babb, P.O. Box 103 Potecasi, N.C. 27867
Located: Northampton County, North Carolina on State Road 1546
 
1. Headstone: (with photograph)
Levie Anna Sumner
Feb 26, 1876
Jan 9, 1960
Concrete slab:
Footstone: L.A.S.
(Note: pregnant 21 times; 2 miscarriges; 16 lived to adulthood)

2. Headstone: (with photograph)
Charles Thomas Sumner
Jul 18, 1866
Aug 1, 1935
Concrete Slab:
Footstone: C.T.S.

3. Concrete slab:
Levie Troy Sumner
Born Jun 22, 1916
Died Jul 21, 1917

4. Concrete slab:
Simon Colin Sumner
Born Jun15, 19?
Died Jun 30, 19?

5. Concrete slab:
Lessie Renie Sumner
Born Nov 9, 1904
Died Jan16, 1909

6. Concrete slab: unmarked
(note: Verla Sumner Parker, born ca. 1902, died 1935,
wife of #7 and mother of Mary Elizabeth Colston)

7. Headstone:
Raymond E. Parker
North Carolina
Pvt Field Artillery
WW I
1897-1959
(note: killed by shotgun blast to the head while operating
a small store on Highway 258, west of Rich Square)

8. Headstone:
"Pa"
James Hudson Babb
Apr 10, 1901
Mar 11, 1961
Concrete slab:
(note: born in Virginia in 1898, father was John Robert Babb;
2nd child was born in 1927 and died of spina bifoda in the hospital
and was never brought home or buried)

9. Concrete slab (small)
Frances Babb
(unclear)
(note: ca. 1926; 1st child of Hudson Babb and Novella;
lived a few hours and died with convulsions)

10. Unamed stillborn infant
The daughter of Clifton Sumner and Effie nee' Benton who was
the daughter of Graham Benton.


*It is planned that Novella Sumner Babb, John Thomas Babb, and
Elsie Lee Vaughan Babb are to buried in this graveyard.

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