Sharon Memorial Park
Page added 18 February 2021.
Sharon Memorial Park sign, Kacie's Photography 2019
5716 Monroe Road, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina 28212
Situated on 140 acres, Sharon Memorial Park was designed with beauty and tranquility in mind. With sparkling lakes, elegant Italian marble statues, European artwork and a magnificent indoor mausoleum, Sharon Memorial Park is a verdant and serene final resting spot for loved ones. Sharon Memorial Park also has a beautiful light-filled mausoleum chapel for committal services.
Sharon Memorial Park was founded on December 9, 1939, by Dr. William L. Halberstadt. He designed the cemetery property with the sentiment that the final resting place of loved ones should be a space of quiet beauty and an everlasting garden spot that evokes happy memories and tells the story of a life. To accomplish this, upright monuments and tombstones were not allowed. Graves were marked with flat bronze markers on concrete foundations in a setting landscaped and kept as if it were a park. Today, bronze markers are now installed on granite foundations and upright monuments are allowed at Lakeside and the Holy Redeemer Garden.
Sharon Memorial Park provides many different burial, entombment and cremation memorialization options including: traditional ground burial, lawn crypts, community or private mausoleum entombment, private lakeside estates, cremation benches, or cremation niches. One option is the Sharon Mausoleum, designed by famed architect Cecil E. Bryan, which was completed in 1950 to resemble the churches and monasteries of Tuscany, Italy. It provides entombment choices including single crypts, companion crypts, couch crypts and sarcophagi, or glass-front cremation niches that can be personalized with flowers, mementos, photographs and a customized urn.
In 1988, a historic cemetery dating back almost 200 years was transferred to Sharon Memorial Park. This centuries-old cemetery needed to relocate because, in 1985, a company started quarrying rock along Nations Ford Road and realized it was in danger. It was a cemetery for some of Charlotte’s more prominent families: the Smartts and Barnetts, who were early settlers of the area. The cemetery included 26 graves, and after obtaining permission from their descendants, the quarry company relocated it 10 miles down the road to Sharon Memorial Park. Look for the bronze marker for Susanna Barnett Smartt within Sharon Memorial Park. According to family history, she witnessed the signing of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence and was acquainted with Andrew Jackson and James Knox Polk before the men became presidents
Family buried at Sharon Memorial Park cemetery include:
REFERENCES:
Sharon Memorial Park was founded on December 9, 1939, by Dr. William L. Halberstadt. He designed the cemetery property with the sentiment that the final resting place of loved ones should be a space of quiet beauty and an everlasting garden spot that evokes happy memories and tells the story of a life. To accomplish this, upright monuments and tombstones were not allowed. Graves were marked with flat bronze markers on concrete foundations in a setting landscaped and kept as if it were a park. Today, bronze markers are now installed on granite foundations and upright monuments are allowed at Lakeside and the Holy Redeemer Garden.
Sharon Memorial Park provides many different burial, entombment and cremation memorialization options including: traditional ground burial, lawn crypts, community or private mausoleum entombment, private lakeside estates, cremation benches, or cremation niches. One option is the Sharon Mausoleum, designed by famed architect Cecil E. Bryan, which was completed in 1950 to resemble the churches and monasteries of Tuscany, Italy. It provides entombment choices including single crypts, companion crypts, couch crypts and sarcophagi, or glass-front cremation niches that can be personalized with flowers, mementos, photographs and a customized urn.
In 1988, a historic cemetery dating back almost 200 years was transferred to Sharon Memorial Park. This centuries-old cemetery needed to relocate because, in 1985, a company started quarrying rock along Nations Ford Road and realized it was in danger. It was a cemetery for some of Charlotte’s more prominent families: the Smartts and Barnetts, who were early settlers of the area. The cemetery included 26 graves, and after obtaining permission from their descendants, the quarry company relocated it 10 miles down the road to Sharon Memorial Park. Look for the bronze marker for Susanna Barnett Smartt within Sharon Memorial Park. According to family history, she witnessed the signing of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence and was acquainted with Andrew Jackson and James Knox Polk before the men became presidents
Family buried at Sharon Memorial Park cemetery include:
- DUNCAN, John Van Jr.
- DUNCAN, Lucille (m. MILLER)
- DUNCAN, Margaret J. (m. FORBIS)
- DUNCAN, Samuel Jefferson
- IDEN, Annie Bell (m. DUNCAN)
- IDEN, Harry Richard
- WINFREY, Marion Clyde
- WINFREY, Nellie May (m. AKERS)
- WINFREY, Peggy Marie (m. MOORE)
- WINFREY, Robert Akers
REFERENCES:
- McEwen Funeral Service at Sharon Memorial Park website (https://www.dignitymemorial.com/funeral-homes/charlotte-nc/mcewen-funeral-service-at-sharon-memorial-park/4704).
- Family Information Compiled From: FindAGrave website, FamilySearch website, and family records.