McConnell Cemetery (Franklin)
Macon Co., NC

Surveyed March 6, 2005

Directions: From the red light at McDonald's in Franklin, go south on Hwy. 441 about 7/10 mile. Turn left onto Wide Horizon Drive. Go about 4/10 mile. Turn left onto Henson Road. Go about 3/10 mile to a sign with several numbers and arrows on it. Turn right. The cemetery is less than 1/10 mile along this road on the right behind the remains of a barbed wire fence. DO NOT PARK ON THE GRASS, and please do not block any driveways without asking permission first.

Notes: This cemetery has not been used in nearly half a century. It is overgrown, and many trees have fallen and knocked over markers. I could not find two marked graves which Horace J. Hurst mentioned in his 1940 Historical Records Survey (see HRS:

     R. H. Owenby     Feb. 13, 1825  Sep. 20, 1910
     Sarah E. Owenby  Jul. 22, 1829  Mar. 16, 1902

There may be other gravesites which I missed. The following record reflects the actual writing on the tombstone. The graves were laid out (approximately) and surveyed as follows:

               11 12
                  10
         09    08             07
02 03 04          05
               06
      01
     [Henson Road/driveway]


[01]
At rest  Orah C. wife of W. H. Gray  Born Mar. [1*] [tombstone 
     broken here]  Died June 3, 1902

[02]
Funeral home marker [no names or dates]

[03]
Funeral home marker [no names or dates]

[04]
At rest  Orah C. wife of W. H. Gray  Born Mar. 19, 1874  Died June
     3, 1902  A faith that kept the narrow way, Till life's last 
     hour had fled, And with a pure and heavenly ray, Lit up her
     dying bed; footstone: OCG

[05]
Hester E. dau. of W. H. & Orah Gray  Born Apr. 12, 1901  Died Mar. 
     9, 1904; footstone: WAG [sic]

[06]
Fieldstone

[07]
Fred Colman son of James E. Wood  Nov. 10, 1907  Nov. 17, 1907
     [broken]; footstone: [blank]

[08]
McConnell, We shall meet our loved ones there:
Elizabeth Ann wife of John P. McConnell  Sept. 8, 1837  Jan. 1, 
     1913; footstone: Mother
John P. McConnell  Dec. 30, 1825  Feb. 4, 1883; footstone: Father

[9]
Norman A. McConnell  1880 - 1960; footstone: NAM

[10]
Fieldstone [could be a separate grave or the footstone of grave 12]

[11]
Pearson McConnell  May 13 - July 4, 1939

[12]
Bryson McConnell  Aug. 10, 1929  Oct. 7, 1933