Skip to content

John Anderson Family Cemetery, Flatridge

Grayson County, Virginia

Location:  East of Flat Ridge Rd. on Comers Rock Rd

Directions:  From the junction of Comers Rock Rd (Rt 658) & Honey Grove Rd (Rt 672) continue on past Central Church and cemetery for approximately 2 more miles. It is on the Garnett Anderson home place. The cemetery is south of Comers Rock Rd on Middle Fox Creek 2 miles from the junction with Flat Ridge Rd.

GPS Coordinates:  N36.67511 W 81.32198

Surveyed by:  Roderick Coates. Submitted by Susan Taylor Woodson.

Comments:  There is a bronze plaque identifying some of the members of the John Anderson family buried here. In addition, a second plaque identifies an earlier family member although he is not buried here: “Jacob Anderson, Pvt, Capt Osborne’s Co Virginia Militia Revolutionary War 1756-1825”. There are 8-10 field stones in this cemetery. Genealogy provided by Susan Taylor Woodson and Ginger Ballard.

John Anderson Family Cemetery, Grayson County, Virginia
Name Birth Death Comments
Row 1
ANDERSON, John ca 1786 ca 1872 [Johnnie, b 29 Oct 1794 d 16 Aug 1873; s/o Jacob Anderson & Susannah Buchanan]
ANDERSON, Feraby Cornett ca 1783 ca 1871 [w/o John Anderson; d/o David Cornett & Sarah Platt]
ANDERSON, Isom ca 1871 ca 1898 [Lorenzo Isom, s/o Nelson Anderson & Rachel Isabella Cornett; b 31 Jul 1862; m1 Minerva Russell; m2 Jennie Haga]
ANDERSON, Minerva Russell [10 Jun 1861] [8 Sep 1890] [Lucinda Minerva “Nervy”, d/o Calvin W. Russell and Irena Ward; w/o Lorenzo Isom Anderson]
ANDERSON, Infant
ANDERSON, Infant