YANCEY COUNTY, NC - CEMETERIES - Burleson Cemetery --------------¤¤¤¤¤¤-------------- LOCATION: From 19E in Burnsville, turn onto 197 South; go about 1 mile and turn on Bolens Creek road and follow this road across the mountain to Vixen. Turn left and go a short distance to Moody Mountain Road; Go about ¼ mile and turn on Autumn Lane and go to end of this road near a mobile home. Look straight ahead and you can see An overgrown road. Follow this road up the hill and around to the right to the cemetery. Condition: In bad need of mowing and removing bushes. SURNAMES: AUSTIN, BANKS, BURLESON, GARDNER, MCCLURD, MCMAHAN, RIDDLE 1. SALLIE M AUSTIN, wife of JAMES BURLESON - January 1, 1848 - January 18, 1920 2. JAMES BURLESON, January 2, 1846 - May 4, 1922 3. JAMES G. BURLESON, December 20, 1881 - June 5, 1906 4. ISABELLE BANKS, February 15, 1888 - January 6, 1904 - 20 Y 5. S. W. BURLESON, January 20, 1874 - March 6, 1899. 6. ALTHIE E. GARDNER, March 12, 1885 - November ??, 1900 7. POLLY E. McMAHAN, January 31, 1877 - July 26, 1901 - Age 24 Y 8. EVA MAE McCLURD, wife of W.L. OGLE, August 20, 1879 - April 1, 1935 9. S.G. McCLURD, February 13, 1870 - February 16, 1909 10. LIZZIE McCLURD, daughter of J.K.& S.G. McCLURD- May 18, 1891- Jan, 22, 1904 Age 12Y 11. MINEY R McCLURD, September 26, 1895 - April 5, 1896 - Age 6 mo. 12. WELZIE P. McCLURD, June 16, 1887 - August 16, 1888 - Age 2 Mo. 13. R.W.McCLURD, June 16, 1889 - June 1, 1906 14. MARTHA, daughter of J. R. & SRENIE McCLURD-Nov. 11, 1906 - Born & died same day 15. ANNIE L. RIDDLE, January 6, 1875 - December 7, 1900 Age 25 Y 16. SAMUEL (C or G) AUSTIN, January 12, 1818 - March 12, 1898 Age 75 Y. 17. CAROLINE AUSTIN, November 30, 1823 - August 26, 1895 18. Infant of E.E. & A.E. GARDNER, Born and died August 10, 1900 19. JAMES B. RIDDLE, July 12, 1895 - January 6, 1896 5 mo. 24 days. 20. MALISSIE J. RIDDLE, May 23, 1898 - May 6, 1899 Age 11 mo. 13 days. 21. JOE EMMA RIDDLE, September 30, 1900 - November 1, 1900 Age 1 mo. 1 day 22. WILLIAM ISAAC BURLESON, January 31, 1877 - August 26, 1880- Age 3Y, 6 M, 25D 23. HOBERT GILBERT BURLESON, April 1, 1887 - November 7, 1887, 7 M, 6 D 24. JOHN McCLURD, 1864 - 1951 (S/o Wiley & Margaret Cody McClurd) A number of graves with no names or dates. Note: All markers were found but very hard to read so we have depended on the survey made in 1977 by Charles Hutchins for the dates. ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Bodford gbodford@yahoo.com ___________________________________________________________________