Episcopal Cemetery

Located south of Elizabeth City's historic center, this cemetery holds roughly 410 gravestones, with the oldest inscription dating to 1724 and the oldest stone original to the site dating to 1825. Its family plots are enclosed by cast iron, wrought iron and wire fences, many installed from the mid-nineteenth century through the 1920s. The nomination regards the cast iron group, including an 1857 enclosure for the Thomas D. Knox plot, as the finest of its kind in eastern North Carolina. Gravestones carry funerary symbols such as weeping willows, draped urns, upturned torches, and Masonic and Odd Fellows emblems, and some were cut by stonecutters working in Norfolk and Baltimore. Among those buried here are physicians, merchants, politicians and Civil War veterans, and the cemetery holds the grave of Governor John Christopher Blucher Ehringhaus, who served from 1933 to 1937. Burials have been rare since 1960, with twenty-one recorded.