Unity Cemetery (Newburg/Knob Creek)

Unity Cemetery is located between Knob Creek and Bandmill on the Knob Creek Road. We went in search of this almost forgotten cemetery at the request of a reader who had tried to find it but has never been able to do so. The cemetery is in a terrible state of disrepair with only a few stones standing and many graves which have settled excessively. There are many field stone markers with no inscriptions and likely many more stones which have fallen and lie hidden from view, flat beneath a heavy blanket of decaying leaves.

There are few names on stones to research...and hardly any mention of the Unity Cemetery online so I was unable to find any data about those who rest here except for basic information about birth and death dates. Those names I was able to find online seem to all have resided in the Newburg area.

The site lies along a spring branch in a hardwood flat below a hilltop capped by a rocky outcrop.