Editor’s Note: Western North Carolina is rich with untold stories—many resting quietly in local cemeteries. In this Tombstone Tales series, we explore the lives of people from our region’s past whose legacies, whether widely known or nearly forgotten, helped shape the place we call home.
CANTON, N.C. (828newsNOW.com) — At Locust Field Cemetery, a rough stone symbolizes the quiet persistence of family and dedication.
Thomas Abel was a Revolutionary War soldier who died in Haywood County on Aug. 30, 1822. Today, his burial place is marked not by a single headstone, but by a collection of stones added across generations, each telling part of the same story…