Markers in the
Rayner Family Cemetery
Powellsville, NC

 
Spring 2000  - Photos by Dean Fife 
Location: Located 1 mile from Powellsville on left side of road (Dilday Road off the Cremo Road) leading to Rosemead, about 600 yards from road in the middle of a field. Was Garden at the old Rayner home (destroyed by fire about 1945.) (Transcribed by Sally M Koestler May 1998)

      
Mary Winifred Rayner and John A Rayner
Inscriptions: Our Mother, Mary W, wife of, J A Rayner, Feb 3 1840, Apr 26 1925
John A Rayner, Born, July 31 1837, Died, Dec 22, 1901

    
Uncle Mark and Aunt Sarah
Sarah, wife of William L Mitchell, Born Oct 3 1845, Died May 26 1915
Gone but not forgotten

     
Joseph and Lizzie Smithe and daughter Pansy Ross
Joseph Linwood Smith, Sept 12 1873, Jan 30 1936
In Memory of, Lizzie E, Wife  of J L Smith, Born July 23 1872, Died May 1 1905
A Kind Wife and Loving Mother
Pansy Smith Ross, Sept 13 1900, Aug 7 1928
Note: In May 1998 - I Sally also found
Marcu Linwood, son of J L & Lizzie Smith, 1902

  
Luta I Harrell, wife of, R D Trevathan, Born Jan 25 1870 Died Nov 3 1903
Not my will but Thine be done

      
Hattie and Morton and son Rudolph
Hattie P Rayner, Feb 14 1879, Jan 29 1958, In God We Trust
Morton L Rayner, Born Feb 1 1869, Died May 26 1927
How desolute our home be Bereft of thee
Rudolph Rayner, son of ML & HP, 1901 - 1904

     
Armisted and wife Bettie and son John
John A Rayner, BORN May 3 1875, DIED Jan 4 1919
He died as he lived, Musing on God
BETTIE L, wife of J A Rayner, Born July 18 1879, Died Feb 25 1919
Gone but not forgotten
John A Raynor, Dec 21 1905, Jan 27 1932
Meet me in Heaven

Note: In May 1998 - I Sally also found marker for the daughter of Ed and Christina
Bettie Lou Rayner, Mar 20 1935, Apr 30 1935
Budded on earth to bloom in heaven
also a marker for one of Uncle Percy and Aunt Ella's children
Lula Nel F, Mar 8 1913, Apr 11 1913, Dau of PL & EA Rayner
[Uncle Percy and Aunt Ella and all six of their children were re-interred in the Ahoskie Cemetery]