Barnes Cemetery
Grayson County, Virginia
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 |