Sullivan Family Cemetery
Grayson County, Virginia
Location: North side of Ripshin Rd ( 603), half mile Northeast of Friendship Church.
Directions: From the junction of Ripshin Rd (Rt 603) and Laurel Creek Rd (Rt 732) go 0.9 mile north on Ripshin Rd to private drive on left. Take this driveway up slope to the cemetery.
GPS Coordinates: N36.707920 W81.405956
Surveyed by: Susan Taylor Woodson and Rich and Ginger Ballard 14 March 2003.
Comments: Not visible from road. It is fenced and well-tended. Set back in the woods on the slope of a hill, this is a beautiful and serene site in mid-March when the sun warms the hillside and daffodils are coming up all over the place. There are 37 graves identified in this cemetery. The earliest burial dates from 1909.
| Name | Birth | Death | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Row 1 | |||
| unknown | unmarked grave | ||
| BALDWIN, H.C. | 3 Jan 1890 | 5 May 1917 | “Curt”; stone appears to be a replacement. A field stone is still in place for a footstone. It further appears this cemetery once had field stones for markers and an effort has been made to add commercially made replacement markers for most of them. |
| BALDWIN, Julia A. Osborn | 1841 | 1917 | bank marble footstone |
| unknown | two unmarked graves | ||
| PRICE, Shirley Jo | 22 Dec 1921 | 23 Dec 1937 | “baby” |
| Row 2 | |||
| unknown | unmarked grave | ||
| PRICE, Breece M. | 16 Oct 1921 | 29 Jan 1922 | |
| PRICE, Joy Nell | 5 Mar 1932 | “infant daughter” | |
| PRICE, E[millious] T. | 29 Jul 1876 | 22 Feb 1946 | [s/o William C. & Nancy C. Weaver Price]; double stone with next |
| PRICE, Bettie | 21 Jan 1881 | 24 Jan 1971 | [d/o Henry & Charity Loggins Sullivan] |
| SULLIVAN, Felix M. | 16 Oct 1886 | 28 Dec 1975 | [s/o of Henry & Charity Loggins Sullivan; 80th Inf Div U.S. Army World War I Purple Heart. Sherwood Anderson modelled “Buck” in “Buck Fever” after him. Felix later served as caretaker of Ripshin.]; double stone with next |
| SULLIVAN, Lillie M. | 16 Apr 1901 | 23 Nov 1980 | [Lillie Mae, d/o Martin Van Buren and Mary Ann “Polly” Busic Richardson] |
| Row 3 | |||
| SULLIVAN, Bruner W. | 31 Jul 1913 | 12 Jan 1980 | double stone with next [s/o John Ander & Rosie Baldwin Sullivan] |
| SULLIVAN, Lillie Mae J. | 3 May 1916 | 10 Mar 1940 | |
| SULLIVAN, McDaniel | 6 Nov 1876 | 15 Jun 1960 | double stone with next; [s/o of Henry & Charity Loggins Sullivan] |
| SULLIVAN, Margarett | 15 Nov 1874 | 9 Sep 1951 | [d/o William M. & Catherine Baldwin Sullivan] |
| SULLIVAN, Cleveland | [7 Apr] 1889 | [17 Apr] 1922 | [s/o of Henry & Charity Loggins Sullivan]; double stone with next. Replacement marker lists only year dates. Old, broken stone found outside fences lists full dates |
| SULLIVAN, Nora Spencer Smith | [28 Jan] 1892 | [27 Oct] 1972 | [d/o Lee & Mary Ann Spencer] |
| SULLIVAN, Henry | 1 Mar 1854 | 9 Aug 1937 | double stone with next |
| SULLIVAN, Charity | 14 May 1849 | 17 Apr 1922 | |
| unknown | field stone | ||
| unknown | cast concrete marker, no inscription | ||
| Row 4 | |||
| SULLIVAN, John Ander | 26 Jan 1884 | 2 Jul 1957 | double stone with next |
| SULLIVAN, Rosa B. | 11 Nov 1887 | 4 Nov 1960 | [d/o Jefferson F. & Mary Elisabeth Denny Baldwin] |
| SULLIVAN, Gather H. | 5 Mar 1909 | 12 Mar 1909 | son of J[ohn] A[nder] & R[osa] A. [Baldwin] Sullivan; dates also read as 5 Jan 1905 – 12 Feb 1905] |
| SULLIVAN, Webb L. | 2/10 Jul 1910 | 2 Jan 1911 | son of J[ohn] A[nder] & R[osa] A. [Baldwin]. Sullivan |
| SULLIVAN, Clyde H. | 18/19 Dec 1911 | 28 Feb 1912 | dau of J[ohn] A[nder] & R[osa] A. [Baldwin] Sullivan |
| SULLIVAN, Kilby M. | 2 May 1916 | 2 May 1916 | son of J[ohn] A[nder] & R[osa] A. [Baldwin] Sullivan |
| SAWYERS, Phyllis | 3 Apr 1942 | 23 Apr 1942 | |
| SAWYERS, Charlotte S. | 5 Nov 1922 | 14 Feb 1944 | [d/o John & Rosa Sullivan] |
| SULLIVAN, Glenn A. | 31 Aug 1944 | 11 Feb 1992 | |
| SULLIVAN, Major Carson | [22 Mar] 1917 | [3 Apr] 1989 | [s/o John & Rosa Sullivan]; double stone with next |
| SULLIVAN, Sabra Elizabeth | 1926 | 1947 | |
| SULLIVAN, William Carson | 18 Jun 1943 | ||
| SULLIVAN, Bonnie Lynne | 23 Apr 1962 | ||
| Row 5 | |||
| GREER, Millard F. | [9 Apr] 1910 | [17 Dec 2002] | double stone with next |
| GREER, Tressie S. | [10 Jun] 1925 | [25 May] 1985 | photograph of man and woman affixed to the stone; [d/o John Ander & Rosie Baldwin Sullivan] |
| GREER, Woodrow Dayton | 2 Mar 1912 | 29 Jul 1983 | PFC U.S. Army World War II; shared stone with other side left blank; [death year also recorded as 1985] |