Cemetery: Mizpah Cemetery
Other:
Sign: Yes
Street: Mizpah Road
City: Rockingham
Township:
County: Richmond County
State: North Carolina
Nation: United States
Zip: 28379
Status: Active
Size: Medium
Directions: This cemetery is located off of Airport Road in Rockingham
Type: Road-public
Location: Urban-developed
Terrain: Level
Watersource: No
Features: old trees
Property: Public
Access: Open
Enclosure: None
Gate: None
Established: 1700's-1800's
Gravestones: hundreds
Oldest:
Newest: 1990's
Removed: No
Relocated: No
Repairs: No
Methods:
Restoration: No
Association: No
Records: Unsure
Inventory: No
Availability:
Landscaping: No
Paths: No
Trees: Unsure
Crypts: No
Fencing: No
Walkways: No
Brickwork: No
Ironwork: Yes
Sculpture: Unsure
Fountains: No
Roads: No
Buildings: No
Cement: Yes
Granite: Yes
Marble: Yes
Native: Unsure
Slate: Unsure
Others: Yes
Wood: Yes
Materials: Yes
Architectural: Yes
Angels: Yes
Draperies: Unsure
Fraternal: Unsure
Hands: Unsure
Lambs: Unsure
Monograms: Yes
Plants: Yes
Photos: No
Religious: Yes
Scrollwork: Unsure
Urns: Unsure
Carvings: Yes
Condition: Cemetery neglected
Unmarked: Yes
Broken: Yes
Toppled: Yes
Disintegrating: Yes
Buried: Yes
Weather: Unknown
Pollution: Yes
Vandalized: Yes
Report: No
VA: Graves-Desecrated
Overgrowth: Problem-Access
Overgrowth: Graves-Disturbing
Overgrowth: Gravestones-Disturbing
Overgrowth: Gravestones-Damaging
Vegetation: Trees
Vegetation: Ground-Cover
Vegetation: Vines
Problem: Encroachment
Problem: Apathy
Owner: County
Use: Dumping
Bordering: Residential
Change: Larger
Reason: Housing
Visited: Occasionally
Archeology: No
Habitat: Unknown
Contacted: Richmond County Historical Society, + various people

Surnames

There are tons of names, but it is in such bad shape, you can't walk in it to see them. My grandparents, Hughes.

Other Information

It is so awful that this cemetery is in such bad shape! I have never seen a cemetery in this bad of a shape. I clean my grandparents graves off and some extra ones too, but I am not able to clean that cemetery off. I wish that I could! People are dumping their trash on people's graves (literally)! Garbage! It is so grown up with weeds and stuff. I feel so bad that my grandparents are buried out there. There are a lot of old things there. There are old vases and stuff. There are graves that are sinking in and I filled one in that is located beside my grandparents. There are houses and mobile homes right beside the cemetery. You can't imagine how bad this cemetery is. You would have to see it to believe it. People go in there and drink alcohol and break the bottles and there is broken glass and bottles all over. I think that the state of NC and Richmond County should be ashamed of themselves for this mess. They have never tried to clean it up or keep it clean except a few years ago, the chain gang cut the grass and I couldn't believe my eyes. It felt so good to see it semi-cleaned off. They only cut the grass, but it sure did look good.

Support

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name: Darlene Jernigan
Email: B_oondoxgal@aol.com
Date: May 8, 2002