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Rigney-Edwards Cemetery

Carroll County

Fancy Gap District

Location: Cana Community

Directions: In the edge of a wooded area beside a small roadway on the north side of Rt. 688 (Little Bear Trail) .8 mile from Rt. 52 (Fancy Gap Highway. The cemetery is not visible from the highway.

GPS Coordinates: N 36.62406 W 080.68060

Surveyed by: Buford C. Wilson; 31 Oct 2013; buford-wilson@outlook.com

Comments: The cemetery is in good condition. Information in [brackets] is not on the stone.

Rigney-Edwards Cemetery, Carroll County
Name Birth Death Comments
Row 1
HORTON, Brandon Lee 11 Apr 1994
EDWARDS, James Henley 26 Mar 1934 17 Jan 1988 s/o William Lee Edwards & Lettie Clementine Rigney
RIGNEY, Bertha 10 Oct 1910 21 Nov 1910 d/o Henley Thomas Rigney & Ruby Viola Edwards
RIGNEY, Henley T. 14 Feb 1878 21 Jun 1958 Henley Thomas; s/o Noah Rigney & Louisa Adaline Combs
RIGNEY, Ruby V. 30 May 1883 20 Aug 1912 Ruby Viola; d/o William Greenberry Edwards & Ruth Tryphena Jenkins; w/o Henley Thomas Rigney
RIGNEY, B. J. 26 May 1906 31 Mar 1929 Benjamin Jerome; s/o Henley Thomas Rigney & Ruby Viola Edwards
Row 2
EDWARDS, Glade “Ben” 02 May 1945 21 Jan 1976 Glade Benjamin; s/o William Lee Edwards & Lettie Clementine Rigney
EDWARDS, Ricky Lane 22 Jul 1968 20 Sep 1968 s/o Glade Benjamin Edwards & Teresa Gay Combs
JENKINS, Wiley M. 1816 1904 Wiley Mankin; s/o Gentry Jenkins & Susannah Hamblin
Unmarked
EDWARDS, William G. 1858 1929 William Greenberry; s/o Jesse Mankins Edwards & Sarah Elizabeth Johnson
[EDWARDS, Ruth Tryphena] Unmarked, by tradition; d/o Wiley Mankin Jenkins & Elizabeth Reynolds; w/o William Greenberry Edwards
Row 3
EDWARDS, Ruby Lynn 24 Jan 1948 25 May 1948 FHM
EDWARDS, William Lee 04 Nov 1903 07 Jan 1963 Shared stone with next; s/o James Albert Edwards & Mary A. Bevil
EDWARDS, Lettie Rigney 19 Jun 1903 05 Apr 1991 Lettie Clementine; d/o Henley Thomas Rigney & Ruby Viola Edwards, w/o William Lee Edwards
There are 3 graves marked only with fieldstones in the front part of the cemetery