White Top Cemetery
aka Monroe Miller Family Cemetery
Grayson County, Virginia
Location: White Top
Directions: This cemetery is located 1200 ft southeast of the junction of Pond Mountain Lane (Rt 755) and Whitetop Gap Road (Rt 726) on top of hill overlooking the White Top Community. From the junction go southwest approximately 800 ft on Pond Mountain Lane to driveway on left. Then go 0.2 mile on driveway to cemetery at dead-end of drive.
GPS Coordinates: N36.596657 W81.626038
Surveyed by: Jeff Weaver and Ginger Ballard 21 Mar 2003
Comments: The cemetery has been erroneously identified as the Laurel Valley Cemetery. This cemetery is fenced and neat. A total of 98 graves were identified in this cemetery with the oldest known burial taking place in 1912. It was purchased by Marion Miller in 1922.
| Name | Birth | Death | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Row 1 | |||
| ROUSE, Rosetta | 20 Aug 1899 | 16 Jun 1982 | [m1 James Avery Mabe, m2 ___ Rouse] |
| MABE, child | [possibly died in the 1930s] | ||
| MABE, Glen W. | 28 Dec 1922 | 16 Apr 1945 | VA PFC 349 Inf World War II; [s/o James & Rosetta Mabe; killed in action] |
| MABE, Monroe J. | 30 Mar 1925 | 2 Mar 1964 | Freemason; [s/o James & Rosetta Mabe] |
| MABE, Charles H., Jr. | 17 Aug 1935 | 12 Apr 1965 | |
| Row 2 | |||
| unknown | field stone | ||
| Row 3 | |||
| WALKER, Lizzie | 9 Aug 1892 | 8 Mar 1920 | broken stone |
| Row 4 | |||
| TAYLOR, John Franklin | 9 Mar 1950 | 2 Dec 1982 | |
| HASH, Leroy | 21 Jun 1929 | 16 Nov 1934 | s/o Benjamin and Dora Hash; triple stone with next two |
| HASH, Infant | 20 Sep 1914 | 20 Sep 1914 | |
| HASH, Infant | 16 Jun 1912 | 16 Jun 1912 | |
| Row 5 | |||
| BREWER, William Edgar | 10 Oct 1925 | 12 Oct 2000 | U.S. Merchant Marine, PFC U.S. Army World War II Korea |
| TRIBBLE, Elaine M. | 19 Oct 1933 | 5 Mar 1936 | [d/o Brown Tribble] |
| unknown | field stone | ||
| MILLER, William M. | 6 Dec 1855 | 23 Feb 1929 | [He helped lay out the town of Whitetop back when it was a timbering boomtown; s/o Isaac and Bathsheba Blevins Miller]; double stone with next |
| MILLER, Evaline B. | 17 Jun 1858 | 23 Jul 1920 | [d/o Riley and Agnes Barker Blevins] |
| HASH, Minnie Ellen | 29 May 1894 | 24 Jan 1931 | [d/o William M. and Evaline Blevins Miller]; double stone with next |
| HASH, Wiley Luther | 17 Mar 1884 | 1 Dec 1947 | |
| ROOP, Edward Elisha | 9 Apr 1914 | 14 Mar 1972 | double stone with next |
| ROOP, Beulah Faye | 11 Jun 1914 | 7 May 1997 | |
| HASH, Howard B. | 7 Apr 1916 | 27 Jul 1978 | [s/o Benjamin and Dora Hash] |
| HASH, Willard Neal | 16 Dec 1911 | 14 Jun 2000 | PFC U.S. Army World War II; [s/o Wiley Luther and Minnie Ellen Miller Hash] |
| Row 6 | |||
| unknowns | two wooden crosses | ||
| RASH, Mary Jean | [6 Apr] 1927 | [16 Feb] 1953 | [nee Hensley; w/o Jacob Worley Rash] |
| DINKINS, Margarette M. | [8 Nov] 1877 | [Jun] 1958 | [d/o Marion and Mary Miller]; double stone with next |
| DINKINS, Harvey R[emine] | [10 Sep] 1878 | [4 Jun] 1955 | [s/o Bird & May Wyatt Dinkins] |
| DINKINS, Glen | 11 Apr 1900 | 27 Apr 1919 | [s/o Harvey and Margarette Dinkins] |
| unknowns | two wooden crosses | ||
| BREWER, Violet Kathleen | 24 Sep 1919 | 27 Apr 1920 | |
| HENSLEY, Infant | 1922 | 1922 | infant daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William McKinley Hensley; foot stone: I.D.H. |
| BREWER, Albert | 28 Mar 1860 | 17 Mar 1923 | double stone with next |
| BREWER, Martha | 29 Sep 1869 | 27 Mar 1923 | |
| Row 7 | |||
| TAYLOR, Debra Lynn | 9 Apr 1953 | 19 April 1997 | |
| SHIPLEY, Eugene D. | 29 Jun 1940 | 30 Oct 2002 | A2C U.S. Air Force Vietnam |
| unknown | concrete block | ||
| HARGRAVE, Lelah Clyde | 13 Mar 1904 | 7 Aug 1996 | |
| GREER, Pauline Miller | 24 Dec 1913 | 20 Mar 1994 | |
| HARGRAVE, H.E. | [Henry Ella; stillborn]; children of Frank & Clyde Hargrave; double stone with next | ||
| HARGRAVE, S.L. | [Sarah Lou] | ||
| MILLER, Marion Clarence | 6 Nov 1898 | 2 Mar 1981 | |
| MILLER, Sarah Ennis/Ennice | 30 Sep 1875 | 8 Feb 1944 | [d/o William W. and Ludema Davis Dolinger; birth also recorded as 20 Sep 1875] |
| MILLER, Monroe | 27 Jun 1879 | 9 May 1919 | double stone with next |
| MILLER, Edgar Floyd | 18 Apr 1902 | 25 Jul 1985 | World War II; [s/o Monroe and Sarah Ennis Miller] |
| MILLER, William Blaine | 9 Aug 1908 | 8 Nov 1929 | [s/o Monroe and Sarah Ennis Miller; crippled in his legs] |
| MILLER, Marion | 19 May 1852 | 23 Jan 1925 | [s/o Isaac and Bathsheba Blevins Miller; donated the land for this cemetery]; double stone with next |
| MILLER, Mary | 1 Nov 1851 | 17 Dec 1926 | [d/o Joshua and Elizabeth Hamm] |
| Row 8 | |||
| unknown | field stone | ||
| MILLER, Roby W. | 10 Dec 1880 | 20 Nov 1961 | “Husband”; triple stone with next |
| MILLER, Alice | 10 Jun 1880 | 7 Dec 1922 | “Wife”; [w/o Roby W. Miller]; triple stone with next |
| MILLER, Hazel | 20 Oct 1905 | 26 Sep 1920 | “Daughter”; [d/o Roby W. and Alice Miller] |
| unknown | field stone | ||
| Row 9 | |||
| GREER, Mrs. | native head and foot stone; [said to have been buried in the 1930s] | ||
| unknown | field stone | ||
| SULLIVAN, Lewis | 15 Dec 1835 | 23 Jul 1921 | |
| unknown | field stone | ||
| TAYLOR, M. Edward | 16 Mar 1925 | 5 Sep 1993 | TSgt U.S. Air Force World War II Korea |
| TAYLOR, Edna | 30 Oct 1902 | 24 May 1982 | [nee Walker; w/o Cas Taylor] |
| TAYLOR, Bobby J. | 15 Dec 1936 | 26 Jan 1937 | |
| TAYLOR, John S. | 13 Feb 1867 | 7 Dec 1941 | |
| TAYLOR, David | 16 Apr 1905 | 6 Jul 1989 | |
| unknowns | two field stones | ||
| Row 10 | |||
| unknowns | three unmarked graves | ||
| unknowns | two wooden crosses | ||
| MILLER Lily May | 19 Aug 1921 | 25 Feb 1922 | d/o Wade & Cora Miller |
| unknown | wooden cross | ||
| Row 11 | |||
| BLEVINS, Grace M. | 17 Aug 1919 | 27 Mar 2008 | double stone with next; [Grace Mae, d/o Gerdon (or Gerdan) and Nancy Royal] |
| BLEVINS, Marvin F. | 13 Sept 1912 | 25 Dec 1997 | [s/o Winfield and Savannah Blevins |
| BLEVINS, Robert Teddy | 1936 | 22 Nov 2007 | [eldest s/o Marvin and Grace Blevins] |
| BLEVINS, Lyle Royal | 14 Jan 1946 | 28 Jan 2008 | [s/o Marvin and Grace Blevins] |
| ROYAL, Joe Arthur | [s/o Gerdan & Nancy Royal; possibly died in the late 1940s. Cecil Hensley remembers seeing Joe Royal do the Opossum dance.] | ||
| unknown | |||
| ROYAL, Gerdon | ____193- | [Cecil Hensley, born 1928, remembers watching Gerdan Royal cut wooden shingles for Cecil’s father’s barn, when Cecil was 3 or 4 years old.]; double stone with next | |
| ROYAL, Nancy A. | 1887 | 1965 | |
| ROYAL, Lura M. | 18 Oct 1909 | 12 Feb 2002 | double stone with next |
| ROYAL, Eugene | 30 Oct 1915 | 1 Apr 1994 | [s/o Gerdon and Nancy Royal] |
| Row 12 | |||
| ROYAL, Everett T. | 1904 | 1972 | [s/o Gerdon and Nancy Royal] |
| ROOP, Willard Lee | 1947 | 2002 | |
| ROOP, Brenda Lee | 1 Feb 1958 | 17 Nov 2001 | double stone with next |
| ROOP, Brian Keith | 18 Jun 1969 | ||
| ROOP, Daniel Lee | 9 Feb 1956 | 17 Feb 1999 | |
| ROOP, Mary E. | 30 May 1882 | 4 Apr 1958 | double stone with next |
| ROOP, James A. | 27 Oct 1882 | 22 Feb 1935 | |
| ROOP, Nonnie M. | 11 Aug 1904 | 24 Aug 1928 | [d/o James A. and Mary E. Roop] |
| ROOP, Dayton L. | 2 Jun 1928 | 29 May 1992 | [s/o Nonnie M. Roop]; double stone with next |
| ROOP, Irma J. | 18 May 1934 | ||
| DALE, Earl | 1956 | 1996 | metal marker |
| Row 13 | |||
| unknown | field stone | ||
| HENSLEY, Barnette A., Dr. | 1855 | 1932 | [William Eskiah Barnette Alexandra Hensley; born on the high seas while his parents were coming to America from Holland; remembered as one of the best doctors in the area]; shared stone with next two |
| HENSLEY, Chole M.A. | 1873 | 1946 | |
| HENSLEY, Jesse E. | 1902 | 1941 | [s/o B.A. and Chloe M.A. Hensley] |
| unknown | field stone | ||
| HENSLEY, Pearl C. | [17 Apr] 1903 | [27 Sep] 1989 | [Pearle Carla, d/o Harvey and Margarette Miller Dinkins]; double stone with next |
| HENSLEY, William Mc. | [25 Feb] 1901 | [22 Jun] 1965 | [William McKinley] |
| PROFFITT, Susan | Nov 1953 | [stillborn]; double stone with next | |
| PROFFITT, Eric | Dec 1967 | [infant] | |
| Row 14 | |||
| unknowns | six unmarked graves | ||
| HAM, William Earl | 27 Jul 1930 | 12 Mar 1934 | |
| Row 15 | |||
| JONES, Priscilla A. Hensley | 7 May 1925 | “Sid”; double stone with next | |
| JONES, Clauria Eugene | 6 Nov 1917 | 4 Apr 1965 | Sgt U.S. Army World War II |