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New River Notes Photo Gallery

A Collection of historic and current photos mostly covering the upper New River area of southwestern Virginia and northwestern North Carolina.

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Thompson_Cemetery__1.jpg1082 viewsDescription: Ann Combs, Beam a descendant of the Thompson family of Surry County, North Carolina came down from Alexandria, Virginia in October of 2003. She and her husband came by to see me for a few minutes and then went by Devotion. The gatekeeper of the Reynolds estate allowed them to go inside to the Thompson cemetery.
Directions from the gate to the Thompson Homestead and Graveyard site:Get Permission at the gatehouse
Go through gate for 3 10ths miles on right, inside fence. Mitchell's River and the creek flow on either side.
Buried here are Martha Thompson wife of Hiram Higgins. (Hiram was killed in the Civil War and Martha was murdered by John Jack Mayes and burned in her house ) The cemetery is being kept in very good condition. Courtesy of Nanalee Wrenn nwrenn37@yadtel.net
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johnhhashgrave.jpg1082 viewsThis cemetery plot is in the Elisha Anderson Cemetery. Photo courtesy of Chrissie Anderson Peters.
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Saltville - West End 19281081 viewsSALTVILLE, VA. / WEST END / CIRCA 1928

"CHUB" ARNOLD COLLECTION/ Courtesy of Don Smihdsmith1043@comcast.net


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baptistchapelcem.jpg1079 viewsThis is a general view of the cemetery at Baptist Chapel Church. The stone in the foreground is for Alice P. Phipps. Photo by Jeff Weaver, June 1978,
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000_0682.JPG1078 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver summer 2005.
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Fort Chiswell - Anchor and Hope Plantation Marker1078 viewsPhoto by Shawn Dunford. Courtesy of David Arnold david.arnold@adelphia.net
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Weaver, Fannie Quintenella Blevins1078 viewsThis photo was taken on Helton about 1929. She was the daughter of eter C. Blevins and Rosa Sage and the wife of Arthur F. Weaver.
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Ann Sheridan was Clara Lou Warren, daughter of Lula Warren and George Sheridan. Lula was my grandmother's sister and daughter of Spencer and Maggie. That makes her my second cousin. She was the famous "OOMPH Girl" of the movies. She starred1078 views
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gwest.jpg1077 viewsSon of Rush Floyd West and Theodocia Blevins. School teacher, prominent Baptist layman. Lived at Grassy Creek. Married to Hazel Dolinger.
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okparsons.jpg1077 viewsOsborn Kesterson (O K) Parsons; son of Edmund Parsons and Charlotte Reeves
b 11 October 1844, Grayson County, VA
d 10 October 1918, Jennings, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana
m 1) Dicie Lavera Lewis; 2) Addie Iseliah Wiggins
Photo was taken in Louisiana
Courtesy of Jacque Lopez jacquel@prodigy.net
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coxmelvilleb.jpg1077 viewsM. B. Cox served as Captain of Company C, 45th Virginia Infantry during the civil war. He was severely wounded at Lewisburg, WV.
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