Rice-Owens Cemetery
Joe Carver Road
Jonathan Creek, Haywood County, NC
Survey done May 6, 2000 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 Joe Carver Road which turns off to the left beside the old Rock Hill 
School (now the Good Samaritan Baptist Church) approximately 1 mile. The cemetery is 
on the right off of Joe Carver Road marked only by a very small sign which says 
"cemeteries."
	Going through the gate and to the top of the hill, this cemetery will be on your left.
This cemetery is completely surrounded by a cinder block wall five runs high with steps 
going up and over the wall. There are a few graves marked only with fieldstones and a few 
with markers which have become unreadable. I have listed all these as "unknown."
	This cemetery has been beautifully maintained. It is inside a pasture, so any visitors 
should be very careful to close all gates securely.


No one is ever truly dead until the last person forgets to remember them.


Starting at the bottom of the cemetery and moving from right to left:

Row 1:
	Daniel A. Owen
	12-25-1835
	10-31-1916
				Double headstone
	Martha J. Owen
	4-1-1840
	4-5-1921

	unknown

	Lizzie
	daughter of
	H.C. & L.E. Rice
	9-9-1874
	2-23-1875
	age 5 mos., 13 days

	J.D. Rice
	11-15-1797
	7-21-1875
	age 77 yrs., 8 mos., 6 days

	Sarah Rice
	2-10-1802
	12-27-1877
	
Row 2:
	2 unknown

	J. E.
	husband of
	Mary E. Rice
	& son of 
	Jno. & Sally Rice
	11-16-1840
	3-4-1865

	Aunt Hester Long Owen
	2-19-1879
	2-20-1961

	Norman F. Owen
	5-31-1884
	9-23-1947