We Discovered A Buried Arm Gravesite!

A call to arms! Here in Star NC is a gravesite that contains a buried arm. North Carolina has some strange things to discover. A story of Jesse Maness and his arm is one of these odd discoveries in NC. Jesse Manness was 12 when he got his sleeve tangled in a sawmill and lost his arm. He never let the handicap bother him. He continued operating sawmills, became a storekeeper and and farmed 1,500 acres. He was a legendary figure in his small community, and his store on Secondary Road 1349 became a center of community life. "Jesse put the first TV set known in these parts in that country store," his wife said, "People came from all over....They came at all hours, but especially at night. Jesse loved boxing and wrestling matches and he had them on the set all the time."

Although his arm was buried in 1913, he did not follow it into the grave for quite some time. In the interim, Maness sometimes stopped by the spot where his arm was buried, and each time he shook his head about an error in the marker. "He pointed out the stone to me many times in our early years", said his wife Esther. "'Look' He'd say, 'They got the wrong arm carved on it. They marked the stone with the outline of a left arm, but it is my right arm that is buried there.' But he always said that he was going to let it go, and he did. He never raised a fuss about it."

Location: Suggs Creek Primitive Baptist Church 2364 Ether Road
Star, North Carolina 27356
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