Barnes Cemetery

Location:  Rugby
Directions:  The Barnes Cemetery is on the east side of Shippey's Branch Road (Rt 742) about 2 miles south of Highlands Pkwy (US 58) and about 0.5 mile north of the North Carolina line.
GPS Coordinates:  N36.584499 W81.462487
Surveyed by:   Jeff Weaver on March 26, 2003
Comments:  The cemetery is neat, clean, and well fenced. By local tradition among the burials here are eight Reedy children who died from diphtheria.

Name Birth Death Comments
Row 1
BARNES, Glen D. 12 Dec 1935   double stone with next; [birth also recorded as 17 Dec]
BARNES, Martha L. 6 Apr 1938 23 Dec 1994 [obit dod 23 Feb 1994; Martha Louise, d/o Faye Sproles; w/o Jerry Graham]
HURLEY, Sallie 1914 1945  
HURLEY, Audrey 1931 1934  
HURLEY, Maude 1880 1930  
BARNES, Opal W. 30 Jan 1933   [nee Reedy]; double stone with next
BARNES, Earnie 5 Aug 1926 19 Nov 1980 S1 U.S. Navy World War II; [s/o Cleve Barnes & Vergie Weiss; h/o Wave Reedy]
Row 2
BARNES, Anita K. 7 Apr 1954 8 Feb 1976 [d/o Earnie Barnes & Opal W. Reedy]
ROOP, H.C. 22 Aug 1930 30 Jun 1996 double stone with next; [s/o Arthur James Roop & Elsie Wilcox]
ROOP, Madge 25 May 1939    
ROOP, Donald Glen 12 Jan 1963 28 Nov 1968 [s/o H.C. Roop &Madge Barnes]
WEAVER, Mandy 21 May 1901 28 Jan 1916 [death also recorded as 23 Jan]
Row 3
BARNES, Lorine M. 16 Jul 1944  
BARNES, Gerald Thomas 8 Jun 1945 10 Mar 1997 Sp4 U.S. Army; [s/o Cleve Barnes & Vergie Weiss; h/o Lorene S. Barnes]
MIKEL, L[ula] Mae 25 Dec 1904 16 Feb 1979 double stone with next; [d/o Bloomb Pendry & Mabin Handy]
MIKEL, Joe C. 29 Sep 1895 19 Feb 1979 [s/o James K. Mikel & Angeline Weiss]
BARNES, Howard 14 Nov 1941 15 Mar 1995 [s/o Cleve Barnes & Vergie Weiss]
BARNES, Norman Scott 28 Feb 1949 22 Dec 1967 [s/o Cleve Barnes & Vergie Weiss]
BARNES, Vergie 1905 1994 [d/o Troy N. Weiss & Bethania C. Reedy]; double stone with next
BARNES, Clive 1902 1982 [Thomas Cleve; s/o Edward Barnes & Julie Phipps]
unknowns     3 field stones
Row 4
unknowns     3 field stones
WEISS, Bethana E. 1852 1935 double stone with next
WEISS, Troy N. 1863 1929  
unknown     field stone
Row 5
HALL, Wilson Chima 11 Jan 1915 18 Apr 1915 [birth date also recorded as 11 Mar]
DAVIS, Annette 25 Sep 1862 15 Dec 1914 wife of E.R. Davis
DAVIS, E.R. 7 Oct 1854 16 Nov 1928 "Erected by Margaret W. Schramm"
Row 6
unknown     field stone
WEISS, William A. 29 Aug 1896 16 Apr 1904  
REEDY, Jackson 29 Nov 1828 1 Feb 1905 Co D 50th Va. Inf CSA
REEDY, Rebecca 22 May 1830 6 Nov 1902 Age 72 years 5 mos 14 days; w/o Jackson Reedy
Row 7
unknowns     9 field stones
Row 8
HALL, Lucy Jane 11 Jul 1856 18 Aug 1898 Wife of J.G. Hall
HALL, Minnie R. 26 Sep 1880 5 Oct 1884 [death also recorded as 6 Dec]
unknowns     2 field stones