Update - see new detail on the Norwood Cemetery at the end of the post. An effort to get out and enjoy a mild December day before the cold set in resulted in a hike in northern Wake county that led to an encounter with this small graveyard sitting just off a trail head at the Shinleaf Campground area of Falls Lake.  Surrounded by it's dilapidated fence, t he tiny graveyard contains three graves naming a Norwood family. I was curious to know if they were logged in the Wake County Cemetery Image Collection . I snapped a few photos so I could compare when I got home and made a mental note of the location for my search. The cemetery dates to the late 1890s - 1920s. The stones and fence around them look newer than that, but they are very disheveled. There are two very large trees growing within the fence, one having taken on the role of sentry post disallowing any entry. The condition of the fence tells the story of a great storm passing through. The panels are mangled and bent. I wonde...

I just wanted to take a moment to point out the category feature on the Wake Cemetery Survey Project that you see above. It is there to help you search more quickly. Use these category groups to narrow your search: General Information African-American Cemetery Church Cemetery Community Cemetery Family and Slave Cemetery Family Cemetery Indian Cemetery Slave Cemetery Unknown Cemetery These categories refer to the smaller cemeteries. You will not find a category for the likes of Oakwood, or Raleigh City Cemetery. These are limited to searching one type of category at at time and we were only able to assign one category to each cemetery. Note that the category names were assigned with the word usage used in the original survey. * The category feature is helpful feature to highlight right now as many observe Black History Month and honor their ancestors by researching their family history.  The Category search works by township. If you don't know the part of Wake County you want to loo...