Lowery-Ray Cemetery
Wake Forest, Wake County, North Carolina, USA
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Wake Forest, North Carolina 27587 United StatesCoordinates: 35.99365, -78.63301 - Cemetery ID:
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The Lowery-Ray Cemetery contains the marked graves of two owners of the property that became the Wellses's Rock Cliff Farm and four of their kinsmen. It occupies a rectangular plot on the grass-covered lawn of the Ray-Wells house that is defined by a wood board fence measuring about thirty feet on its east and west sides and thirty-five feet on its north and south sides. The grounds of the cemetery are partially shaded and ornamented with two evergreens that probably date to the early twentieth century. The graves are arranged in three rows on a north/south axis. The grave of Joseph Newton Lowery (1826-1901) has pride of place in the center row and it is flanked on the north by the grave of his eldest daughter Roxana Lowery Keith (1852-1902) and on the south by the graves of Charles J. Ray (1876-1941) and his wife Della Lowery Ray (1873-1934), Mr. Lowery's youngest known daughter.
A single grave, that of C. A. Ray (1905-1906), lies in the east row, while another single interment, that of Cleo Patery (a possible elision of Cleopatra) S. L. Glenn (1865-1919), occupies the center of the west row. The gravestones are conventional in appearance and their inscriptions. The Lowery and C. A. Ray stones are locally made and probably of native stone. The graves of Mrs. Keith and Mrs. Glenn are marked by unsigned white marble tablets and foot stones. The Keith marker features a carved lily in a roundel and the Glenn marker has carved ivy leaves. The single granite stone marking the graves of Mr. and Mrs. Ray has carved Moderne-style decoration. It was erected in the summer of 1944 at a cost of $185 by M. Arnaiz.
The Lowery-Ray Cemetery contains the marked graves of two owners of the property that became the Wellses's Rock Cliff Farm and four of their kinsmen. It occupies a rectangular plot on the grass-covered lawn of the Ray-Wells house that is defined by a wood board fence measuring about thirty feet on its east and west sides and thirty-five feet on its north and south sides. The grounds of the cemetery are partially shaded and ornamented with two evergreens that probably date to the early twentieth century. The graves are arranged in three rows on a north/south axis. The grave of Joseph Newton Lowery (1826-1901) has pride of place in the center row and it is flanked on the north by the grave of his eldest daughter Roxana Lowery Keith (1852-1902) and on the south by the graves of Charles J. Ray (1876-1941) and his wife Della Lowery Ray (1873-1934), Mr. Lowery's youngest known daughter.
A single grave, that of C. A. Ray (1905-1906), lies in the east row, while another single interment, that of Cleo Patery (a possible elision of Cleopatra) S. L. Glenn (1865-1919), occupies the center of the west row. The gravestones are conventional in appearance and their inscriptions. The Lowery and C. A. Ray stones are locally made and probably of native stone. The graves of Mrs. Keith and Mrs. Glenn are marked by unsigned white marble tablets and foot stones. The Keith marker features a carved lily in a roundel and the Glenn marker has carved ivy leaves. The single granite stone marking the graves of Mr. and Mrs. Ray has carved Moderne-style decoration. It was erected in the summer of 1944 at a cost of $185 by M. Arnaiz.
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- Added: 3 Nov 2013
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2518556
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