Watkins Cemetery
Macon Co., NC

Surveyed July 28, 2001.

Directions: from downtown Scaly Mtn., NC on the Dillard/Highlands Rd. (Hwy. 246), take Hale Ridge Road and follow it. Take a right on Rabun Branch Road. The cemetery is on the right well before Rabun Branch Road dead ends onto Ritchie Road.

This cemetery is labeled by a marker which reads: Watkins 1885

Surveyor's note: the unmarked graves (twelve in all, as described below) were all approximately the size of the grave of an infant or young child.

Infant of Martin & Polly Watkins Ramey

Infant of Martin & Polly Watkins Ramey

Cleelie Ramey  Daughter of Martin & Polly Watkins Ramey

Marvin Ramey  Son of Martin & Polly Watkins Ramey

Isaac Carpenter  1906  Son of Judson & Janie Watkins Carpenter

Ray Carpenter  1903  Son of Judson & Janie Watkins Carpenter

Essie Carpenter  1911  Infant daughter of Judson & Janie Watkins 
     Carpenter  Actual interment in Banks Co., GA

Marked with stones at head and foot and artificial flowers

Marked with stones at head and foot and artificial flowers

Marked with stones at head and foot and artificial flowers

Johnny Watkins  Apr. 1, 1831  Apr. 1, 1921

Clifford Ramey  1927 - 1929  Son of Kibby & Mae Watkins Ramey

Veenie Marie Ramey  Feb. 2, 1936  Daughter of Mae Watkins Ramey

Marked with stones at head and foot

Marked with stones at head and foot

Marked with stones at head and foot

Marked with stones at head and foot and artificial flowers

Marked with stones at head and foot and artificial flowers

Marked with stones at head and foot and artificial flowers

Marked with stones at head and foot and artificial flowers

Marked with stones at head and foot and artificial flowers

Marked with stones at head and foot

Dau. of Cecil & Debra Fountain  Angel Dion  Mar. 22, 1991

Double stone, Carpenter:
Lester "Cecil" Carpenter  Apr. 14, 1933  Oct. 21, 1992; footstone: 
     L. C. C.
Dorothy Joanne Carpenter  June 1, 1951  [no date]