Beaufort, North Carolina

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Sarah was first married to Jacob Shepard, a seaman. Jacob's ship was lost at sea and he was presumed dead. Later, Sarah married Nathaniel Gibbs and they had a child. After several years, a shipwrecked and marooned Jacob Shepard returned to Beaufort to find that Sarah had remarried. It was agreed that Sarah would remain with her second husband and family as long as she lived but would spend eternity at the side of her first husband. Jacob Shepard died in 1773, Sarah Gibbs in 1792.

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(1756) 1756 is the oldest legible date on the Beaufort tombstones, but it is certainly not the oldest grave. Exactly which grave is the oldest will probably never be known. The early records of the Burying Ground were kept by the Church of England. During the Revolution, some Anglicans loyal to George III fled and took the records with them.

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A.P. is possibly Abigail Parker, child of Reuben and Jane Parker.

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(1800's) Woolard was a member of the Union Army's 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment, part of two regiments of volunteers from eastern NC joining the Yankees during the Civil War. After many from these regiments were captured by the Confederates, it was discovered that 22 of them had previously served the South so they were hanged as deserters. This action demoralized the remaining members of the two regiments and most of them spent the rest of the War in the relative safety of Union-held Beaufort and Fort Macon.

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(1732-1802) Col. Thomson was the highest ranking officer from Beaufort to serve in the Revolutionary War. Known as "the most influential merchant of his day," he held many offices for town, county, and province. He was a delegate to the Provincial Congress at Halifax, North Carolina in 1776 and to the Constitutional Convention at Hillsborough, NC in 1778.

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(1700's) This is the grave of an unknown officer in His Majesty's Navy who died on board ship while in the port of Beaufort. Not wanting to be buried with "his boots off" he was buried in FULL uniform and STANDING UP --legend has it that he's positioned to be eternally saluting his King.

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"Resting 'neath a foreign ground, Here stands a sailor of Mad George's crown. Name unknown, and all alone, Standing the Rebel's Ground." -Brantley

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