Jeremiah Stone Cemetery
aka Chris Stone Cemetery
Grayson County, Virginia
Location: On the Claude Stone Farm in Elk Creek, Grayson Co, VA. It is located on the land that was the original homestead owned by Jeremiah & Susannah Stone. It is now owned by Ernest Warren Stone, ggg-grandson of Jeremiah.
Directions: From the junction of Elk Creek Pkwy (US 21) and Comers Rock Rd (Rt 658) go west on Comers Rock Rd. Travel about 1.6 miles. Home is on the left with the cemetery behind the house and barn on a knoll.
GPS Coordinates: N36.727010 W81.192135
Surveyed by: Recorded by Mary Hawkins Kalenian and Judith Hawkins MacKendrick June 1999. Additional information comes from the survey done by Paul Herndon et al in June 1995.
Comments: First stone was erected by D.A.R. October 1990.
| Name | Birth | Death | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| STONE, Jeremiah | 1742 | 1823 | “Original settlers of this farm. Served in war for independence”; [s/o William and Elizabeth Ann Stone] |
| STONE, Susannah | 1744 | [18 Sep] 1809 | [d/o Moses and Ruth Turner Hurt; w/o Jeremiah Stone] |
| STONE, William | [13 Mar] 1766 | 1842 | [s/o Jeremiah and Susanna Hurt Stone] |
| STONE, Elizabeth | 9 Feb 1850 | “This marker commemorates the above who are interred in this cemetery”; [nee Nunn; w/o William Stone] | |
| STONE, K[enley] C. | 18 Aug 1849 | 1 Mar 1915 | [Kenley Chrisman, s/o John and Nancy Fields Stone; m1 Carrie Elizabeth Chadwell, m2 Rosamond Matilda Cornett] |
| STONE, R[osamond] M. | 3 Dec 1847 | 21 Mar 1916 | [d/o John and Lucinda Boyer Cornett; 2nd w/o Kenley Chrisman Stone] |
| STONE, Carrie E. | 9 Feb 1849 | Jul 1974 | wife of K.C. Stone; [nee Carrie Elizabeth Chadwell] |
| STONE, John | 10 Jun 1803 | 18 Mar 1882/1883 | aged 17 yrs, 9 mos & 8 days; [s/o William and Elizabeth Nunn Stone] |
| STONE, Nancy | 17 Dec 1806 | 26 Jan 1892 | [nee Fields; w/o John Stone] |