Tate Cemetery
Carroll County, Virginia
Fancy Gap District
Location: Elk Spur Community
Directions: At the end of state maintenance on Rt. 1145 (Apache Trail) at the High Chaparral Development. Apache Trail exits Rt. 614 (Elk Spur Road) .88 miles from Rt. 608 (Lightening Ridge Road).
GPS Coordinates: N 36.652206 W 080. 683528
Surveyed by: Buford C. Wilson; 28 Jul 2014; buford-wilson@outlook.com
Comments: This is an old cemetery and it has many graves marked only with fieldstones, about 50. The cemetery is in good condition.
| Name | Birth | Death | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| TATE, James W., Sr. | 12 Mar 1939 | Shared stone with next; s/o Lee Andrew Burton Tate & Mollie Guynn | |
| TATE, Edna G. | 24 Jul 1942 | 18 Aug 2004 | Edna Faye; nee Gravely; w/o James W. Tate, Sr. |
| TATE, Kenneth Wayne | 09 May 1941 | 26 Apr 2012 | FHM; s/o Lee Andrew Burton Tate & Mollie Guynn |
| TATE, Lee A. | 15 Jan 1905 | 12 Apr 1973 | Lee Andrew Burton; s/o James William Tate & Maggie Bevil |
| TATE, Mollie Guynn | 22 Jun 1909 | 12 Apr 1990 | d/o Ephriam Guynn & Phoebe Peak; w/o Lee Andrew Burton Tate |
| TATE, Ronald “Ronnie” Lee | 07 Oct 1933 | 07 Dec 2011 | Shared stone with next; s/o Lee Andrew Burton Tate & Mollie Guynn |
| TATE, Mary “Jennie” Burcham | 31 Oct 1942 | Mary Virginia; w/o Ronald Lee Tate | |
| TATE, John L. | 22 Feb 1888 | 23 Dec 1910 | s/o Zeno Tate & Margaret Ann Edwards |
| TATE, Zeno | s/o William M. Tate & Chloe Edwards | ||
| TATE, Margaret | Margaret Ann; d/o Elizabeth Edwards; w/o Zeno Tate | ||
| Unknown | Large stone with no name | ||
| ALEXANDER, Alma Jean Rogers | 15 Mar 1925 | 19 Jun 1991 | d/o Claude Eugene Rogers & Florence Alma Ballard |
| STRICKLAND, Harry Byrd | 25 Nov 1926 | 18 Nov 1998 | Shared stone with next; Tec 5 U. S. Army WW II; s/o William Cabell Strickland & Hattie Mae Meredith |
| STRICKLAND, Jane Q. | 19 Aug 1935 | 12 Aug 2010 | Minnie Jane; d/o Rufus Winton Quesenberry & Louisa Ruth Burnette; w/o Harry Byrd Strickland |
| By tradition the following are buried here in unmarked graves | |||
| EDWARDS, Chloe | 17 Nov 1834 | 27 Nov 1912 | d/o George & Polly Edwards |
| EDWARDS, Levalia | 1894 | 01 Jul 1942 | d/o Levi Edwards & Mary Virginia Tate |
| WESTMORELAND, Mary Virginia | 1874 | 28 Jan 1931 | d/o Uriah Hugh Tate & Lucinda J. Jones; w/o Levi Edwards & Alexander William Westmoreland |