Mt. Auburn Church Cemetery
From Wally Atkins Family Wiki
Mt. Auburn Church Cemetery is one of the central places in the later Wally Atkins family story.
In A Long Time Ago: A History of the Atkins-Paynter and Allied Families, several members of the Mecklenburg branch were first buried at the old Atkins homeplace and later reinterred at Mt. Auburn after the creation of Buggs Island Lake. Because of that, Mt. Auburn is not only a cemetery. It is a place where memory, removal, loss, and continuity come together.
People associated with this cemetery in the current family reconstruction include:
For the family, Mt. Auburn is one of the most tangible links between the stories told in the book and the physical landscape where those lives unfolded.
