Dillon-Nuckolls Cemetery

Carroll County Virginia

Sulphur Springs District

Location:  Iron Ridge Community
Directions:  On a hillside, just off the east side of Rt. 793 (Gambetta Road), 3.1 miles from Rt. 607 (Iron Ridge Road).
GPS Coordinates:  N 36.73746 W 080.94344
Surveyed by:  Buford C. Wilson; 10 Nov 2001 Updated 14 Apr 2010 Buford_Wilson@Hotmail.Com
Comments:  This is obviously the old family cemetery for the Nuckolls family, but in later years it has come to be called the Dillon-Nuckolls Cemetery. The cemetery is abandoned. It has been over 40 years since any person has been buried here. Information in [brackets] is not on the stone.


 Name Birth Death Comment
01 KIBRY, Son Infant May 1966 s/o Virgil Luther Kirby Jr. & Evelyn Lee Dillon
02 NUCKOLLS, Viola 1902 1906 d/o Robert Hugh Nuckolls & Corlean Elizabeth Bryant
03 NUCKOLLS, Corlean B. [17 Jun] 1881 [11 Mar] 1958 Corlean Elizabeth Bryant; d/o Henderson Bryant & Sarah L. Hardy; w/o Robert Hugh Nuckolls
04 NUCKOLLS, Robert H. 02 Sep 1881 24 Apr 1964 Robert Hugh; s/o Thomas Hugh Nuckolls & Minerva Ellen Wright
05 NUCKOLLS, Fannie Lee 16 May 1872 05 May 1911 d/o James D. & Nancy C. Cooley; w/o Henry Clay Nuckolls
06 NUCKOLLS, Chessie Lee 12 Oct 1892 12 Jun 1895 s/o Henry Clay Nuckolls & Fannie Lee Cooley
07 MYERS, Thomas Arthur [29 Feb] 1872 [24 Sep] 1952 s/o Wiley A. & Martha Myers
08 MYERS, Rosa Amelia 22 Apr 1883 05 Mar 1906 d/o Thomas Hugh Nuckolls & Minerva Ellen Wright; w/o Thomas Arthur Myers
09 NUCKOLLS, Minerva Ellen Wright 12 Dec 1855 19 Oct 1938 d/o Richard Wright & Mary Williams; w/o Thomas Hugh Nuckolls
10 NUCKOLLS, T. Hugh 02 May 1856 20 Jun 1900 Thomas Hugh; s/o Thomas Nuckolls & Jestin Charlotte Stone
11 NUCKOLLS, Sarah Margaret Infant 18 Aug 1861 d/o Thomas Nuckolls & Jestin Charlotte Stone

Beautiful large marble monument with four surnames on the base: Nuckolls-Swift-Leonard-Stone
12 NUCKOLLS, Thomas 05 Apr 1817 21 Jan 1903 Shared stone with next; s/o Robert Garland Nuckolls & Margaret "Peggy" Swift
13 NUCKOLLS, Jestin C. 29 Oct 1832 12 Jan 1912 Jestin Charlotte; d/o John Stone & Mary Leonard; w/o Thomas Nuckolls

Also on the same stone are the names of their children: T. Hugh-Nathaniel-Ellis V.-Henry C.-Chester B.-Elbert L.-Sarah Margaret-Berta
14 NUCKOLLS, Ellis V. 17 Feb 1862 13 Nov 1915 s/o Thomas Nuckolls & Jestin Charlotte Stone
15 DILLON, Baby Infant [20 Oct] 1943 c/o Harvey Eaton Dillon & Callie Elizabeth Jones
16 DILLON, Mumphford 19 Oct 1857 17 Apr 1942 Mumphford Alexander; s/o Eaton Butler Dillon & Flora Diana Patton
17 DILLON, Mildred M. Carrico 03 Feb 1861 08 Jul 1941 Mildred Melvina; d/o Harvey Carrico & Nancy G. Hill; w/o Mumphford Alexander Dillon
18 FROST, D. E. 26 Sep 1886 17 Nov 1912 Mother and Baby; Diana Elizabeth; d/o Mumphford Alexander Dillon & Mildred Melvina Carrico; w/o Robert Luther Frost
19 DILLON, W. R. 08 Sep 1890 16 Nov 1928 William R.; s/o Mumphford Alexander Dillon & Mildred Melvina Carrico
20 JONES, William Orville 15 Aug 1889 26 Jul 1961 s/o Hilery Thomas Jones & Mary Frances "Fannie" Hawkins
21 JONES, Callie Dillon 16 Aug 1888 03 May 1934 Mumphford Alex Dillon & Mildred Melvina Carrico; w/o William Orville Jones
22 DILLON, Ruby Inez 14 Apr 1916 07 Sep 1916 d/o Robert Smith Dillon & Flora Nellie Newman
23 JONES, Rosamond 23 Nov 1847 15 Apr 1929 “Rosey”; d/o Stephen W. Sink & Amanda Melvina Stone; w/o Henry Clay Jones
24 BOWERS, Nannie Jones 08 Jun 1881 08 Jan 1927 d/o Henry Clay Jones & Rosamond "Rosey" Sink; w/o Sidney Robert Bowers
25 DILLON, M. A. Jr. 05 Oct 1925 12 Sep 1926 Mumphford Alexander, Jr.; s/o Charles Rufus Dillon & Nettie Rose Hill
26 DILLON, Son Infant 11 Feb 1922 s/o Charles Rufus Dillon & Nettie Rose Hill

DILLON, no name



The following people were buried here and later their remains were moved to Monta Vista Memory Gardens. Their monuments remain here and it gives the impression that they are still buried here
27 ZIEGLER, James S. 11 Oct 1895 27 Dec 1961 James Sidney “Jim”; s/o William Ziegler & Mary Jane Isom; h/o 1st Nancy Dillon & 2nd Lettie Goad
28 ZIEGLER, Nancy Dillon 14 Jan 1893 13 May 1945 d/o Mumphford Alex Dillon & Mildred Melvina Carrico; w/o James Sidney "Jim" Ziegler
29 JONES, Lelia K. 17 Sep 1911 17 Mar 1946 Lelia Katherine; d/o Grover Cleveland Jones & Lola Caldwell; Paul Luper is named as husband in her obituary
30 DILLON, Robert Smith 20 Dec 1894 19 Mar 1961 s/o Mumphford Alexander Dillon & Mildred Melvina Carrico; h/o Flora Nellie Newman

There is one more grave which is either unmarked or the person buried there has been moved elsewhere