Out there in the Birkhead Wilderness, John and Elizabeth Tadlock share a memorial stone. Two footstones are behind this marker. The Tadlocks lived a couple hundred yards from here. An old road connects the cemetery to the home site. All that remains of the homesite is a small chimney fall and some daffodils. The homesite also appears to have been used as a staging area for a logging operation. A logging road seems to run right through where the home was. This spot is also one of the original campsites established along the Uwharrie Trail by Joe Moffitt and his scouts. The trail passed through here in one of its earlier renditions. There was a copper sign made by Joe Moffitt here, designating it as Camp 2.
The cemetery itself was not conveyed to the Forest Service in 1979 when the surrounding 205 acres were sold by Ross Paul and Lillie Belle Vuncannon. It is sometimes referred to as the Lillie Vuncannon (Estate) cemetery although she and husband Ross are buried at Hopewell Friends Meeting nearby. I assume the Tadlocks owned this land when they passed. John W and Elizabeth Miller Tadlock both were born in 1833, married in 1866, had two children and passed a few years apart.
Nearby a hickory shows off its shaggy bark
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