Category: Keener-Shrum Cemetery, Lincoln County, North Carolina

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The Keener-Shrum (Kühner-Schramm) Family Cemetery in Lincoln County, North Carolina is located between Pumpkin Center and Iron Station, on (or near) the Historic Keener Farmstead of Gasper Kühner. Casper and his only confirmed son, Abraham, are believed to be buried here, but this is not confirmed. Abraham and (probably) his son John E. Keener, Sr. were Tories at the Battle of Ramsour's Mill (1780) during the American Revolution. Almost two years later (1782), John was “delivered…to serve in the Continental Army, a Satisfaction to his country for being with the British Army.” John Keener and John Peter Shrum, both of whom eventually served in the Continental Army, are buried in marked graves at the cemetery along with other members of the first Keener and Shrum families - including the local Shrum family patriarch, Johann Nicholas Schramm. A Union Church was eventually built next to the cemetery and for many years was called the "Do As You Please" Church because it was open to any denomination in good standing that needed a place to hold services. Several local Baptist churches held their services there before building their own churches. At some point, the Keener and Shrum families sold the property with the condition that it would always be used as a "Union" Church. Today it is an independent Baptist church named "Union Baptist Church."