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Gantt Cemetery (Black)

This African-American cemetery is located in the woods about 1.5 miles northeast of New Hope Baptist Church No. 2 on property owned by Cameron Dodson. Access is by a gated logging road off County Rd. No. 7. Cemetery is almost impossible to find without a guide. A white cemetery joins this cemetery. A survey of this cemetery by Mrs. Gladys L. Williams in January, 1970. I visited the cemetery in February, 2010, but could not find many of the graves listed in the 1970 survey. Cemetery is very brushy. The 1970 survey reported 23 unmarked graves. The name for this cemetery comes from the 1970 survey. I did not see any boundary marking the division between the white and African-American graves.

Name	Birth	Death	Comments
Gantt, Charlie		12-12-1946	Age 70
Gantt, Mary			Listed in 1970 survey; could not find this grave in 2010 survey
Gantt, Peerd			Listed in 1970 survey; could not find this grave in 2010 survey
Johnson, Queen	6-5-1893	8-12-1927
McQuay, Mary			Listed in 1970 survey; could not find this grave in 2010 survey
McQuay, Tom		5-25-1928	Listed in 1970 survey; did not find this grave in 2010 survey
McQuay, Vinnie		4-17-1928	Listed in 1970 survey; did not find this grave in 2010 survey
Medenhall, Addie		8-7-1943	Listed in 1970 survey; did not find this grave in 2010 survey
Smith, Avery			Listed in 1970 survey; did not find this grave in 2010 survey
Taylor, Edgar			Listed in 1970 survey; did not find this grave in 2010 survey
Waller, Lee	1934	1945
Williams, Ada		4-28-1934	Listed in 1970 survey; did not find this grave in 2010 survey
Williams, Lola	1906	Sept, 1947
Williams, Thurman		10-28-1936	Listed in 1970 survey; did not find this grave in 2010 survey

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References to an "earlier record" usually refer to a survey conducted in the 1950's by the Nevada County Extension Homemakers' Clubs, the original of which is on file at the Nevada County Depot and Museum.

Since 1997, Jery and Jeanie McKelvy have conducted a periodic canvas of each cemetery in the county and use additional resources to keep the listings current.