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TOWN CEMETERIES & PLOTS FOR SALE

Cemetery Ordinance 

The Town of Wilkesboro owns and operates two cemeteries – Mountain Park Cemetery and Old Wilkesboro Presbyterian Church Cemetery. The Parks and Recreation staff are responsible for the grounds maintenance and maintaining the maps for the cemeteries. There is also a cemetery committee for current and future needs of the cemeteries. Contacts arte listed.

Mountain Park Cemetery  

Mountain Park Cemetery - Sorted by Blocks 

The Town of Wilkesboro undertook the Mountain Park Cemetery on June 5, 1995. It is located on South Bridge Street and is actively open for new burials. Presently, there are two sections – old and new. The old section map indicates that a few names on plots were not recorded prior to our ownership and no grave markers can be located.

The recorded information indicates:

• the old section has a total of 370 gravesites in blocks 5, 6, 7, 8, A, B.

• the new section has 772 gravesites in blocks 1,2,3,4.

A discounted rate shall be applied to the purchase of burial rights for any citizen of the Town of Wilkesboro. Please see the current Schedule of Fees for all gravesite rates.

History of Cemetery

During October 2014 through 2015, Bill Frawley, Ed.D volunteered his time at Mountain Park Cemetery to clean, level and preserve grave markers and locate unmarked graves. During this time, Mr. Frawley and cemetery administrator James Minton created a comprehensive Excel document that lists all burials in the cemetery. A great deal of research was done at the Wilkes County courthouse and funeral homes to find birth/death dates were not listed on markers at the cemetery. 

Since this time, the volunteers and town staff have located about fifteen graves without markers and has decided to provide simple markers for those graves. A list of burials by names and location [Block.Plot.Lot] and [Last Name Alphabetic] is provided below.  

 Mountain Park Cemetery List of Burials as of 11/05/2025 - sorted by Block.Plot.Lot

Mountain Park Cemetery List of Burials as of 11/05/2025 - Sorted by Last Name Alphabetic

On June 9, 2024, a dedication ceremony for the Mountain Park Military Memorial at the Wilkesboro's Mountain Park Cemetery. The event was a heartfelt tribute to veterans, their service, and sacrifices, incorporating personal stories and reflections. The presence of local officials, veterans' organizations, and community members highlighted the community's commitment to honoring and remembering those who served. The dedication ceremony reminded us of the importance of maintaining and preserving historical sites like cemeteries to honor the memory of those who have passed. The video link is below. 

A big thank you to the town employees who built the memorial, Cemetery Committee member and Air Force Veteran Larry Baity and his family, Dr. Chris Hefner, a military 0flyover of planes during the invocation, local officials: Keynote Speaker Mayor Dale Isom, Wilkesboro Councilmember Jimmy Hayes and Councilmember Andy Soots, Town Manager Kenneth Noland, Cemetery Committee Chair Samuel Call, Cemetery Committee members during the memorial funding and planning, Marine Corps League's Lenny McMillan, VFW Commander Tom Mitchell, VFW Honor Guard, American Legion, Boy Scout Troop 335, Marine Corps League, Wilkes Central JROTC, singers Sevyn Emmarose Harrold and C. J. Ballad, bugler Cadet Airman Kyrie Reid, bagpiper J. V. Hudson, motorcyclist, community members, and Carl White, with the television show, Life in the Carolinas, emceeing this momentous ceremony.

Mountain Park Military Memorial Dedication Video 

The Wilkes Record article  

Old Wilkesboro Presbyterian Church Cemetery

Old Wilkesboro Presbyterian Church Cemetery is located between South Street and Henderson Street and is closed to new burials.

As of March 1987, the Old Wilkesboro Presbyterian Church Cemetery contains 170 marked graves.

• Eleven graves are marked with field stones with no inscriptions.

• Nine graves are marked with stones, which at one time may have had inscriptions, but are presently illegible.

• The remaining 150 graves have markers with at least some readable inscriptions.

• Research indicates that many other persons were buried in this cemetery, but no markers exist at this time to identify the exact locations of those graves.

George F. and Joyce D. McNeil gathered this information about the cemetery in March of 1987 and the Town presently administers this information.