Silas Ward Cemetery
Grayson County, Virginia
Location: Cox’s Chapel
Directions: From Maple Road (Rt 711) and Cox’s Chapel Rd (Rt 601) at the New River Bridge, go about 0.1 mile on Maple Road to cemetery on right (north). Access to cemetery is through a gate and through the edge of the field.
GPS Coordinates: N36.59439 W81.24464
Surveyed by: Joe W. Phipps; Photos by Larry Hash.
Comments: There are some 11 graves marked only with field stones. Photos courtesy of Larry Hash, Winston-Salem, NC; top photo was taken in 2002 the lower in 1997; note the deterioration of the cemetery in this 5-year span. William & Ellender Osborne Hash are thought to be buried in the lower left corner of the lower photo.


Name | Birth | Death | Comments |
---|---|---|---|
Row 1 | |||
ROSE, B.C. | 10 Nov 1929 | 10 Nov 1929 | [Benjamin Columbus, infant s/o Mastin and Virginia Rutherford Rose] |
Row 2 | |||
WARD, Sarah Ann | 7 Aug 1874 | 18 Jan 1889 | dau. of Silas & Phoebe Jane [Hash] Ward; aged 14 yrs 5 mo 11 da |
WARD, Silas | 20 Feb 1829 | 2 Jan 1913 | [Co I 51st VA Infantry CSA and 30th Inf Bn; was a prisoner of war; s/o Zachariah and Tabitha Hash Ward; m1 Elizabeth Toliver, m2 Eleanor Long, m3 Phoebe Jane Hash] |
WARD, Phoebe Jane | 3 Apr 1842 | 31 Jan 1913 | P.J.; wife of Silas Ward; [d/o Harvey and Ruth Ward Hash; m1 Andrew Cox, m2 Silas Ward] |
WARD, Cynthia E. | 27 Mar 1858 | 7 Sep 1887 | dau. of N.W. & Nancy Phipps and wife of B.F. Ward; [Cynthia Ellen, d/o Noan Webster and Nancy Ann McBride Phipps; 1st w/o Benjamin Franklin Ward] |
Row 3 | |||
WARD, Eleanor | 16 May 1836 | 5 Oct 1866 | wife of Silas Ward and dau. of Eli & Martha Long; age 30 yrs 4 mos 21 ds |
COX, Mahalley | 3 Jan 1850 | 12 Jan 1910 | “Haley”; [d/o Andrew and Phoebe Jane Hash Cox] |
WARD, Mastin | 14 Oct 1870 | 9 Aug 1884 | son of Silas & Pheobe Jane Ward; age 13 yrs 9 mo 25 da |
Row 4 | |||
WARD, Zachariah | 17 Aug 1877/1878 | 17 Aug 1877/1878 | son of Silas & Phoebe Jane Ward; age 14 hours |
WARD, Robert N. | [3 Aug] 1858 | [9 Jan ]1862 | son of Silas & Elizabeth Ward; age 3 yrs 5 mo 6 ds |
WARD, Elizabeth | 3 Dec 1832 | 11 Jan 1859 | [1st] wife of Silas Ward & dau. of William & Elizabeth [Long] Toliver |
WARD, Tabitha | 3 Dec 1799 | 1 Mar 1835 | wife of Zachariah Ward & dau. of John & Rebecca [Anderson] Hash |
WARD, Sally | 10 Dec 1805 | 15 Aug/Nov 1855 | [2nd] wife of Zachariah Ward & dau. of Joel & Nancy Richardson |
WARD, Zachariah | 23 Apr 1793 | 28 Nov 1878 | age 85 yrs 7 mos 5 days; [s/o Nathan & Sarah Ward] |
Row ? | |||
RICE, Andrew Jackson | 11 Jul 1924 | 24 Jun 2000 | double stone with next |
RICE, Nancy Ruth | 27 Apr 1934 | [d/o Walter & Verna Clyde Ward Sexton] | |
Believed to be buried here | |||
HASH, William | [ca 1820] | [believed to be s/o “Old” John Hash]; field stone | |
HASH, Ellender | [ca 1822] | [d/o Ephraim Osborne; w/o William Hash]; field stone |