Eli Reedy Cemetery
aka Alex Hash Cemetery
Grayson County, Virginia
Location: Southwest of Barton’s Crossroads
Directions: The cemetery is east of Chestnut Grove Road (Rt 734) about a quarter mile air distance or half a mile on foot. It is in a field above the residences at 2090 Chestnut Grove. Access is about a half mile southwest of junction with Flatridge Rd (Rt 658).
GPS Coordinates: N36.647614 W81.375145
Surveyed by: Mildred McGrady on 30 Oct 1995 and Rich and Ginger Ballard on 24 Mar 2003. Information about people known to be buried here from Dare Ball Parks (who was born in the house built by Eli Reedy) and passed on by her daughter Trula Purkey.
Comments: This cemetery is fenced but pretty well covered with rock lilies, vines, trees, and fallen limbs. Depressions show there are several unmarked graves here.
| Name | Birth | Death | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Row 1 | |||
| REEDY, Malissa | 1875 | 1933 | [nee “Lissie” Blevins], w/o Eli Reedy |
| REEDY, E[li] W., Rev. | 12 Jan 1861 | 17 Dec 1920 | [Eli Washington, s/o Granville H. and Johannah Quillen Reedy]; stone in shape of a tree stump |
| REEDY, Zollie L. | 10 Jun 1897 | 20 Feb 1916 | d/o E[li] W[ashington] & Lissie [Blevins] Reedy |
| REEDY, Alma A. | 23 Dec 1899 | 23 Jul 1916 | d/o E[li] W[ashington] & Lissie [Blevins] Reedy |
| REEDY, Infant | 31 Jul 1910 | 10 Aug 1910 | d/o E[li] W[ashington] & Lissie [Blevins] Reedy |
| PERKINS, Mary Bell | 13 Jun 1914 | 26 Sep 1914 | [d/o Monroe and Floy Perkins] |
| PERKINS, Alma Leota | 10 Jan 1916 | 9 Feb 1916 | [d/o Monroe and Floy Perkins] |
| Row 2 | |||
| HASH, Mettie | 1 Dec 1901 | 13 Mar 1902 | daughter of J. G[uston] and R[uth] J. Hash |
| Row 3 | |||
| unknowns | two field stones | ||
| Row 4 | |||
| unknowns | two field stones | ||
| Row 5 | |||
| unknown | field stone | ||
| unknown | metal marker, illegible | ||
| Known to be buried here | |||
| PERKINS, John Fulton | 1858 | 1887 | [s/o Jared and Rachel Pickle Perkins] |
| PERKINS, Nancy Lane | 1858 | 1915 | [d/o Moses and Elizabeth Wingate; w/o John Fulton Perkins] |
| HASH, Rhoda Phipps | 24 Apr 1851 | 10 Jun 1888 | [1st w/o Alexander L. “Alex” Hash; d/o Hugh Phipps and Edith Standsbury] |
| WARD, children | [three children of Nathan A. and Elizabeth Jane “Betty” Hash Ward] | ||