{"id":184,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-08-19 21:05:58","latitude":35.7929575562960025081338244490325450897216796875,"longitude":-78.69397938251501045670011080801486968994140625,"title":"Berry O’Kelly Grave and Obelisk","subtitle":"","fullsize":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/4ea1c620843c0c1079180b2cffc22aa4.jpg","address":"520 and 514 Method Road","all_locations":[],"zoom":16,"creator":["RHDC"],"description":"The grave of Berry O&#039;Kelly School&#039;s founder is the only grave on the church grounds south of the school parcel. A stone plinth also accommodates a planter with a small boxwood that partially obscures the dressed face of the stone. The dressed portion is divided into three parts – the larger central part is concave with BERRY O&#039;KELLY carved into its face. The flanking sections, also concave, are dressed with a sinuous foliate motif carved at their tops. The footstone reads<br />\r\n<br />\r\nBERRY O&#039;KELLY<br />\r\nDIED<br />\r\nMARCH 14, 1931<br />\r\n<br />\r\nSymbolizing the esteem within which the community still holds O’Kelly, north of the grave on the former school parcel is a commemorative granite obelisk erected in 1986 by alumni and friends of the school. It has a carved likeness of O&#039;Kelly and below his likeness the inscription<br />\r\n<br />\r\nBERRY O&#039;KELLY<br />\r\nABOUT 1864-1931<br />\r\nHUMANITARIAN<br />\r\nLEADER IN BUSINESS AND EDUCATION<br />\r\n<br />\r\nDates: 1931 and 1986","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":[],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/4ea1c620843c0c1079180b2cffc22aa4.jpg":{"id":1151,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"IMG_4931.JPG","description":"","thumbnail":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/square_thumbnails/4ea1c620843c0c1079180b2cffc22aa4.jpg"},"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/56db1dde8b4abdcb2e5831ec0c871ec3.jpg":{"id":1152,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"IMG_4932.JPG","description":"","thumbnail":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/square_thumbnails/56db1dde8b4abdcb2e5831ec0c871ec3.jpg"}}}