Includes the town of Apex and portions of Cary.
Township Instructions
Within a township, review
- Notes - This describes the digitization results and special considerations for a township.
- Original Index - This is the 1978 index of the cemeteries.
- New Index - This is a current index. We will add new cemetery information as it is discovered. These new indexes include Enhanced directions Road names added to the SR numbers GPS data - to the original site or as close as the information and changes in real estate would allow Links to online memorial databases including Find a Grave, Cemetery Census and others.
- Individual Listings and Files - Look for families of interest.
Please note: OCR was attempted, but due to the predominate use of handwriting and old manual typewriters, documents may not be fully searchable. OCR exists for some larger and more clearly typed files.
01 Surname Finder File
This file indexes surnames found in smaller family cemeteries in all townships across Wake County. Thanks to Cynthia Gage for creating this useful tool for us. Note: this list does not include names in Church or Community cemeteries.
02 New Index for White Oak
This should be one of the first files you read.
The New Index Spreadsheet for White Oak township allows for updates and corrections as well as the opportunity to add GPS Co-ordinates and links to outside sources. We have also improved how the roads are referenced by including Road Name with the SR#. -- We now have a vehicle to make additions as other cemeteries become known as is the wish of the co-ordinator of the original project, Irene Kittinger. If you know of any additions or corrections please let us know.
02 Original Index for White Oak
Index as it appeared in the original survey files. Always compare to the new index.
Apex Cemetery
Twenty-one pages of inscriptions. Find-A-Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2157926/apex-cemetery
Apex First Baptist #1
African American. Location only. Originally known as Union Chapel Church Cemetery.
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2354810/apex-first-baptist-church-cemetery-%231
Apex First Baptist #2
African American. Not in original Survey. Location only.
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2234044/apex-first-baptist-church-cemetery-%232
Baldwin/Stewart
African American. Twenty-three marked graves and 10 unmarked. Find-A-Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2228601/baldwin-family-cemetery
Green Level Baptist Church
Location only. Find-A-Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2153144/green-level-baptist-church-cemetery
Howell, Jesse
2 double headstones, 1 single. Survey file at link is 3 pages including map.
Level Grove
Fourteen marked graves and five unmarked. Find-A-Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2444512/level-grove-cemetery
Morgan and Goss
Fifteen marked graves and 8 unmarked. File notes it was cemetery for Good Hope Baptist Church which moved in 1990.
Old Methodist Church (Apex Methodist)
Twenty-two marked graves and eleven unmarked. (Noted as Old Methodist Church Cemetery in the 1978 Wake Cemetery Survey) Find-A-Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2250029/apex-methodist-cemetery
Old Mills
Forty-seven marked graves and 23 unmarked. (Several pages listing the inscriptions.) Other names - Nathan Mills Cemetery, Mills Family Cemetery. See added info on White Oak New Index.
Olive Chapel Church
Location only. Find-A-Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2131489/olive-chapel-baptist-church-cemetery
Perry and Glover
Forty marked graves and three unmarked. See notes on the New White Oak Index for this cemetery.
Salem Baptist Church
Three indexed pages. Find-A-Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2255479/salem-baptist-church-cemetery
White Oak Baptist Church
African American. Location only. Find-A-Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2139991/white-oak-baptist-church-cemetery