John Comer Cemetery
Grayson County, Virginia
Location: Comers Rock
Directions: From Elk Creek Parkway (SR 21) go west on Comers Rock Rd (Rt 658) approximately 4 miles, turn south (left) onto Mt. Zion Rd (Rt 611). Follow Mt Zion Rd and then continue left (south) onto Caty Sage Rd (611) for 1.5 miles to Falls Rd (Rt 662). The cemetery is located on Falls Rd on hill behind first house on left (south).
GPS Coordinates: N36.720531 W81.232030
Surveyed by: Mary Taylor Harrington and Susan Taylor Woodson; updated 2006 by Peggy Cornett Greene and Nancy Cornett Swetland.
Comments: The cemetery is not visible from the road.
| Name | Birth | Death | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Row 1 | |||
| unknowns | two field stones | ||
| COMER, Nora Geressa A. | 10 Sep 1892 | 1 Nov 1913 | [d/o Martha Malvina Comer; w/o Lester Bates]. |
| COMER, Martha Malvina | 15 Nov 1852 | 8 Jan 1935 | [d/o John P. Comer, Jr. & Susan Nelson Greer; m Sam Carrico, divorced] |
| unknown | field stone | ||
| HACKLER, Amanda Mary | 8 Jan 1859 | 9 Jan 1929 | [w/o Stephen T. Hackler; d/o Lytte Henry Burton Toliver & Nancy Amety Coretta Privitt] |
| HACKLER, Stephen Timothy | 29 Nov 1855 | 14 Mar 1923 | [s/o Wade Robert Hackler & Mary Ann Perkins; known as “Big Steve”] |
| unknown | field stone | ||
| Row 2 | |||
| unknowns | three field stones | ||
| HACKLER, Verna L. | 29 Jan 1893 | 16 Oct 1898 | [d/o John Henry Hackler & Amanda Ellen Martin] |
| HACKLER, Oscar | 16 Nov 1889 | 8 Mar 1890 | [s/o John Henry Hackler & Amanda Martin] |
| unknown | field stone | ||
| COMER, John P., Jr. | 22 Dec 1813 | 20 May 1878 | [s/o John Phame Comer, Sr. & Sarah “Sallie” Holland; m1 Lundy Tempy Poole, m2 Susannah Nelson Greer Perkins] |
| COMER, Susannah Nelson | 20 Aug 1817 | 29 Nov 1905 | [d/o Noah Greer & Mary Bonham; m1 Timothy Perkins, Jr., m2 John Phame Comer, Jr.] |
| unknown | field stone | ||
| Row 3 | |||
| unknowns | six field stones | ||
| unknowns | two spaces | ||
| Row 4 | |||
| unknowns | six field stones | ||
| unknowns | two spaces | ||
| Row 5 | |||
| unknowns | two spaces | ||
| HACKLER, Mary Malenia | 24 Apr 1844 | 30 Nov 1907 | [d/o Charles Roark & Isabelle Hale; w/o Stephen Harvey Hackler] |
| HACKLER, Stephen Harvey | 5 Mar 1844 | 3 Jul 1924 | [s/o Jacob Hackler & Nancy Comer; Co F (Grayson Dare Devils), 4th Reg with Stonewall Jackson. Civil War marker placed in 1991. Known as “Little Steve.”] |
| unknowns | field stones | ||
| BURTON, Susan Jane | 8 Oct 1850 | 25 Nov 1925 | [d/o Jacob Hackler & Nancy Comer; m1 Alex Sutherland, m2 Henderson “Ike” Burton. Story is she wanted to be buried by her mother, because she could not be buried with both husbands.] |
| Row 6 | |||
| HARRINGTON, Robert Vivian | 22 Nov 1903 | 7 Dec 1906 | [s/o Aaron Gideon Harrington & R. Leuma Hale] |
| HARRINGTON, H.L | 8 Jan 1892 | 12 Feb 1892 | [d/o Aaron Gideon Harrington & R. Leuma Hale] |
| HARRINGTON, S.G. | 30 Oct 1883 | 20 Aug 1884 | [d/o Aaron Gideon Harrington & R. Leuma Hale] |
| HALE, M.A. | 20 Oct 1923 | 20 Oct 1923 | d/o J.H. Hale |
| HALE, J.F. | 15 Aug 1875 | 20 Aug 1875 | [oldest marker in cemetery; probably infant of Josiah B. Hale and Rebecca Hodson] |
| HARRINGTON, J.S. | 14 Oct 1894 | 15 Oct 1894 | [infant s/o James J. Harrington & Martha C. Hale] |
| HALE, Rebecca | 25 Mar 1839 | 2 Nov 1891 | [nee Hodson; w/o Josiah B. “Joe” Hale] |
| HALE, Josiah “Joe” B. | 15 Aug 1831 | 9 Mar 1891 | [s/o Thomas Hale & Sarah “Sallie” Sutherland] |
| Row 7 | |||
| unknowns | four spaces | ||
| unknowns | field stones | ||
| Row 8 | |||
| unknowns | six spaces | ||
| SUTHERLAND, Ella Martha | 1 Mar 1907 | 1 Mar 1907 | [infant d/o Creed Sutherland & Macalana Hale] |
| unknown | “RH” only readable information on headstone | ||
| unknowns | two field stones | ||
| The following are interments known to be in John Comer Cemetery, but grave sites have yet to be located. | |||
| COMER, Catherine | 1760 | 1867 | [nee Dove; age at death is said to be 107; w/o John Phame Comer. Sr. Folklore say she was the widow of a sea captain.] |
| SCOTT, Sarah | 1847 | [w/o J. Kenny Scott, d/o Jacob Hackler and Nancy Comer] | |
| HARRINGTON, Henry C. | 19 Nov 1910 | 4 Jan 1911 | [s/o Aaron Gideon Harrington & Leuma Hale] |
| HACKLER, Jacob | 5 Mar 1813 | 18 Mar 1897 | [s/o Peter Hackler, Sr. & Mackalana Delp] |
| HACKLER, Nancy | 19 Feb 1820 | 31 May 1906 | [w/o Jacob Hackler d/o John P Comer, Sr. & Sarah “Sallie Holland] |
| HACKLER, Robert Wade | 1821 | 7 May 1884 | [s/o Peter Hackler & Mackalana Delp] |
| HACKLER, Mary Ann | [d/o Timothy Perkins & Susannah Greer; w/o Wade Robert Hackler] | ||
| COMER, John P., Sr, | 1787 | 5 Sep 1867 | [s/o John Comer & Catherine Dove] |
| COMER, Sarah “Sallie” Holland | abt 1850 | [w/o John P. Comer, Sr.; d/o William Holland] | |
| COMER, Lucy Temperence | 1846 | [nee Poole; 1st John P. Comer, Jr.] | |
| COMER, Abegail | 1841 | [d/o John P. Comer, Sr. & Sarah “Sallie” Holland. In 1860 US census, she was age 46 & living with her father, John P. Comer, Sr. & grandmother Catherine Dove Comer, age 98.] | |
| COMER, John | 1753 | 1838 | [h/o Catherine Dove Comer. He was the original owner of this property. Believed to have served in the Revolutionary War, at Norfolk, VA on James River, in Marine Service.] |
| MARLAND, Infants | four graves of babies | ||
| FINNEY, ____ | female; only information provided | ||
| HALE, Jacob | no information provided | ||
| HALE, Cynthia | [w/o Jacob Hale] | ||
| PHIPPS, Mrs. Earl | no information provided | ||
| HAWKS, Infant | [s/o Ryburn & Stella Hackler Hawks] | ||
| HAWKS, Infant | [s/o Ryburn & Stella Hackler Hawks] | ||
| BARKER, Arthur Norman | 20 Aug 1846 | 25 Mar 1923 | |
| PHIPPS, Mrs. Earl | 20 May 1873 | ||