YANCEY COUNTY, NC - CEMETERIES - Briggs (Marvel) Cemetery
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Located about 1 miles down Jacks Creek Road.  Turn right onto farm road and go 
past a barn and follow road to the cemetery.  Visible from Jacks Creek Road.
Condition:  Good

	SURNAMES:  BEAVER, BLANKENSHIP, BRIGGS, HERRICK, WHEELER 

1.  Bill Wheeler, 1-16-1903 - 12-19-1971, (S/o Adam & Minnie Blevins Wheeler)
2.  Allie Wheeler, 10-9-1899 - 6-29-1977, W/o # 1 
    (D/o Tilmon & Nora Bennett Fox)
3.  Grace Beaver Blankenship, 1906 - 1932, (W/o Adolphus Blankenship, 
    D/o Willard Grant and Ida Byrd Beaver)
4.  Ida Beaver, 1882 - 1929, (W/o Willard Grant Beaver and D/o Denus Byrd)
5.  Bashie Beaver, 1903 - 1928, (D/o Willard Grant & Ida Byrd Beaver).
6.  - 19  marked with concrete blocks but no names or dates
20. Cindy Lou Wheeler Herrick, 8-6-1906 - 12-13-1992, 
    (D/o Wm. R. & Mary elizabeth Briggs)
21. Mary E. Briggs Wheeler, 4-17-1881 - 2-26-1972 (D/o Marvel & Cindy
    Briggs - Wife of W. R. Wheeler - married 11-22-1903)
22. Calvin C. Briggs, 9-6-1878 - 7-23-1918 "Abide in Me"
23. Lucinda (Edney) Briggs, 12-3-1851 - 3-14-1932, "Asleep in Jesus", W/o # 24         
24. Marvel Briggs, 8-22-1853  - 3-29-1928,  "Gone But Not Forgotten" (S/o 
    Alison & Oma Briggs)
25. Inidentified grave marked with broken stone under cedar tree.

           (Notes in parentheses are from death records or other sources)
           10/4/2003


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