. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. the Lupton family, a long-standing Cedar Island clan. Like the cypress markers in the Old Burying Ground, wood stakes are all that point to some of the graves in this tiny rural cemetery. A family monument says that the Lupton family established itself in North Carolina in the 1760s after Christopher Lupton shipwrecked near Cedar Island. He married Elizabeth Robinson, and they had five children. An interesting fact about Lupton was his name: In the 18th century, people named their sons after their grandfat
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. the Lupton family, a long-standing Cedar Island clan. Like the cypress markers in the Old Burying Ground, wood stakes are all that point to some of the graves in this tiny rural cemetery. A family monument says that the Lupton family established itself in North Carolina in the 1760s after Christopher Lupton shipwrecked near Cedar Island. He married Elizabeth Robinson, and they had five children. An interesting fact about Lupton was his name: In the 18th century, people named their sons after their grandfathers, not their fathers — in effect, skipping a generation each time a name was used. But Christopher Lupton had the same name as four generations before him, says Jack Goodwin, a genealogist and retired system director for the Smithsonian Institution's library services. That was highly unusual for the times, says Goodwin, one of Lupton's descendants. Family lore holds that Lupton was buried in the Cedar Island graveyard, but there is no way to be sure, Goodwin says. "He had a lot of land in that area, and later Luptons are buried there," he says. Lupton was from Cape May, , and he descended from a distinguished family in Southampton, He arrived at a time when North Carolina was trying to attract settlers with an offer of 50 acres of land for every white person in a family. As a result, most of the settlers in North Carolina were from elsewhere in the United States rather than directly from Europe, Goodwin says. And, like the Luptons, many of the families that settled Cedar Island are still there today. Islanders have made their living commercial fishing or have found other careers. But whether they re- mained or settled elsewhere, their family. iam Qaston's monument in Cedar Qrove Cemeteiy graveyards will always attest to their deep Cedar Island roots. Plots are filled with people of the same last name — people who were buried near the homestead so that
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