Elizabeth Corpening

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44001882/elizabeth-corpening

Elizabeth was the daughter of Daniel Weidner (Whitener) and Mary Wilfong.

The late Randy Gibson, Caldwell County genealogist, noteded that Eliza's grandfather Henry Weidner was possibly the first settler in Catawba County and that her maternal grandfather, Major George Wilfong, fought at the Battle of Kings Mountain in the American Revolution.

Jacob Corpening was a son of Albert Corpening and Barbara Probst(Propst). He married Elizabeth Whitener on 9 December 1808. They lived on a portion of the Corpening Plantation which was located in what is now Burke & Caldwell Counties.

According to Burke County tax lists, Jacob Corpening owned 1,238 acres of land in 1815. The NC slave schedule lists him as owning 50 slaves.

Also, this cemetery no longer exists because the Morganton Lenoir airport was built over it. The graves are there, but covered over.