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30 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY LOCAL LANDMARK APPLICATION <br /> The grave ofPriecilla Palmer (Photos 13 and 14), wife of prominent Orange County house <br /> carpenter and joiner Martin Palmer, is the only one in the cemetery to be surrounded by a mound <br /> of raised earth and stones. At one end, a rough headstone bears her name and the date of her <br /> death, May 1, 1820. At the other end, a smaller, rough footstone carries the initials P. P. In 1771, <br /> according to the North Carolina State Records, Priccilla Palmer was paid for stitching forty-eight <br /> haversacks for Governor Tryon's soldiers to carry to the Battle of Alamance in the expedition <br /> against the Regulators.5 <br /> Standing adjacent to each other in another part of the cemetery are the gravestones of Elizabeth <br /> and Daniel Wilkinson, who died in 1.842 on January 30 and 31, respectively (Photo 15). Their <br /> names and the dates of their births and deaths along with the length of their lives are neatly <br /> inscribed on their gravestones, each of which has a segmental-arched head. A technical feature <br /> not usually seen is visible with these gravestones. A cut-stone triangular-shaped tenon extending <br /> from the base of each was intended to enable the gravestones, which are now lying flat on the <br /> ground, to stand upright in the mortise of a base stone. The tenons, however, appear not to have <br /> been broad enough to have done the job properly. <br /> A large broken slab of dark slate—the only marker of its type in the cemetery—covers the burial <br /> site of James Thompson. (Photo 16) Born ca. 1770 and with a death date of June 24, 1846, he <br /> s Engstrom, 14,42. <br /> 8 <br />