Hattie Merritt Jacobs Cemetery

This cemetery is on the old homestead of the Jacobs.  The land on Cypress Creek belonged to Matthew Jacobs, inherited from his father Primus Jacobs.  Matthew's son, Taylor, became the elder of the Pender County Jacobs after many of the clan left to join their Sampson County cousins in reconstituting the Coharie Indian Tribe of Sampson during the late 1800s.  Taylor Jacobs passed the land to his sons, but it appears that son Anguish was the one who remained on the property. 

This cemetery began with the burial of Anguish's widow, Hattie Merritt Jacobs.  Her husband's gravesite at the Old Jacobs Cemetery was lost to the woods when she died in 1966.  She was interred on the homestead.  Her daughters and grandchildren followed.