Round Hill Cemetery, crowned with trees, rising from the Jonathan Valley.
dated 1928
written on back of photo:
"Looking from the South of Round Hill Cemetery,
in Jonathan Valley, in Dellwood, near Waynesville, NC
photo courtesy of Lamar Parton
Round Hill Cemetery, to the right, looking across the Jonathan Valley.
dated 1928
written on back of photo:
"Looking from the West of Round Hill Cemetery,
in Jonathan Valley, in Dellwood, near Waynesville, NC
photo courtesy of Lamar Parton
Round Hill Cemetery
Jonathan Creek
Haywood County, NC
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Laura Caldwell Parton & family
Fleming White Parton family--1903
Names of Fleming White Parton family in photo above.
Surveyed March 31, 2001 by Rebecca Howell and Ruby Howell Sutton
To get to this cemetery, take Hwy. 276 down Jonathan's Creek toward I-40 and Tennessee.
Take Utah Mountain Road on the right and turn immediately left into the first driveway. Looking straight up, Round Hill Cemetery is at the very top of the hill.
Before going to this cemetery, continue on Utah Mountain Road to Jim's Trim Shop on the right. Mr. Jim Howell at the Trim Shop owns the property around the cemetery and he will point out the best route to walk to the top of the hill.
Originally this cemetery covered the entire top of Round Hill, but the majority of the graves were moved to Green Hill Cemetery in Waynesville, NC when I-40 was built. The remaining graves are all within the highway right-of-way and will eventually also be moved.
There are 14 graves with readable markers and quite a few others marked only with fieldstones.
There is also a highway right-of-way marker in the cemetery. It is fenced with no gates, so any visitors have to crawl over the fence. It is very heavily overgrown with brambles and briars which must be crawled through.
In the spring, this cemetery is covered with thousands of daffodills, tulips, and yellowbells which have gone wild. The daffodills on Round Hill bloom about 2 weeks earlier than others in the area and last from 1 to 2 weeks longer. When these daffodills are dug up and transplanted to other areas, they bloom and die like all other daffodills, only on Round Hill do they display their tendancy to an extended blooming season.
This cemetery is no longer in use.
No person is ever truly dead until the last person forgets to remember them.
Infant Marker
(Little) Carolyn
daughter of
Wilson & Nancy Parton
no dates on marker
Infant Marker
D. M.
son of
F. W. & L. Parton
January 13, 1877
W. C.
son of
F. W. & L. Parton
November 29, 1893
October 2, 1903
Erastus Keener Parton
September 30, 1896
November 26, 1931
Double Headstone
Parton
Flemming White
May 22, 1854
November ??, 1917
Laura Caldwell
September 24, 1856
November 22, 1938
Vesie Etta Parton
January 11, 1833
November 23, 1971
Granite Column Marker
presently fallen & broken
Nancy Partarton
wife of
Wilson Parton
May 9, 1817
September 31, 1863
Wilson Parton
December 8, 1808
November 14, 1880
**The name of Nancy Parton is misspelled as "Partarton"
on her side of the marker. She is Nancy Allison Parton,
daughter of the pioneer Joshua Allison.**
Alice Parton Tucker
November 27, 1874
June 8, 1946
Infant Marker
Mary Evaline
daughter of
Fred & Bessie (Betsie?) Tucker
September 15, 1931
April ?, 1935
John W. Parton
March 12, 1853
March 16, 1919
Funeral Home Marker
David Marvin Cook
April 17, 1959
aged 36 yrs, 6 mos, 24 days
Funeral Home Marker
William Alexander Goodwin
November 12, 1939
aged 46 yrs, 6 mos, 27 days
Funeral Home Marker
Charles Edward Goodwin
June 15, 1935
no other readable information
Vessie Parton & Minnie Leah Parton Palmer
Vessie Parton, Minnie Leah Parton Palmer & Jake the mule.
Chauncy Robert Palmer & Minnie Leah Parton Palmer
Laura Adeline Caldwell Parton, Vessie Etta Parton,
Minnie Leah Parton Palmer, Alvin Palmer, & Jake the mule
Music playing is "Bright Hills of Glory" sequenced by a talented Haywood County donor who wishes to remain anonymous.
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