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Austin –  Murray Cemetery

Grayson County, Virginia

Location:  West of Baywood

Directions:  Take Old Baywood Road (Rt 626) southwest from Baywood, turn south onto Knoll Ridge Lane. The cemetery is in a wooded area about a mile from the end of the road. After traveling through a field there is a cleared roadway to the cemetery, but it has many forks and turns.

GPS Coordinates:  N36.58889 W81.02778

Surveyed by:  Don Dudley; Buford C. Wilson 15 Oct 2005 Updated 14 Apr 2008. Additional information is from Swanson and Martha Murray.

Comments:  Also known at the Murray-Austin Cemetery. The cemetery has been kept clear of brush and briars. By tradition there are members of the Austin family buried in some of the unmarked graves.

Austin – Murray Cemetery, Grayson County, Virginia
Name Birth Death Comments
[RUTHERFORD, Mattie] [1882] [1937] no stone; [d/o John M. & Peggy Murray; w/o McCoy Rutherford]
RUTHERFORD, Coy 11 Jun 1880 5 Feb 1930 [McCoy, s/o Andrew & Sarah Bennett Rutherford]
RUTHERFORD, Reba G. 6 May 1919 14 Jan 1922 Baby
ANDREWS, Enoch 1857 1909
ANDREWS, Bettie 1869 1939 [w/o Enoch Andrews; nee Murray]
MURRAY, John M. 1860 1948
MURRAY, Peggy A. [13 Mar] 1861 1940 [d/o Thomas & Sarah Richardson Anders; w/o John M. Murray]
unknowns 3 unmarked
[MARTIN, Raymond] [1917] [probably s/o Roy & Jane Murray Martin]
[ANDERS, Rosa] [1850] [1903] no stone; [2nd w/o Osborne Anders; nee Austin]
[ANDERS, Ruth] [1853] no stone; [3rd w/o Osborne Anders; nee Phipps]
ANDERS, Osborne [1843] [1918] Co K 51st VA Inf CSA; [“Squire” Anders, s/o Thomas & Sarah Richardson Anders; m1 Rachel Taylor, m2 Rosa Austin, m3 Ruth Anders]
unknown unmarked