YANCEY COUNTY, NC - CEMETERIES - Buckner (W.R.) Cemetery ----¤¤¤¤---- Turn onto Windy Gap Road near Yancey/Madison County line and go about ½ mile to sign on left that says "Buckner Cemetery". Follow this road a short distance and take 2nd road to left around the hill to the cemetery. Condition: Good SURNAMES: ALLEN, BUCKNER, CRAIN, FENDER, FOX, HAMLIN, INGLE, MILLER, PONDER, SHEPHERD, SHELTON, TAYLOR 1. Lula Taylor, 1900 - 1945, (W/o # 2, D/o Sam & Margaret Adkins) 2. Troy C. Taylor, 10-23-1894 - 7-18-1979 (S/o Sid & Martha Taylor) 3. Dallie Buckner, 4-1-1906 - 11-2-1992, (W/o # 4 - married 4-3-1926 - D/o Floyd & Addie Hensley) 4. Charlie Buckner, 2-6-1896 - 1-15-1963, (S/o Wm. R. & Fannie Scronce Buckner) 5. Edith Shepherd, 1-11-1911 - 8-9-1911 6. Hanner Buckner, 2-26-1829 - 11-15-1907 W/o # 7 "Heaven now retains our treasures, earth the lonely casket keeps and the sunbeams long to linger where our sainted Mother sleeps." 7. J. R. Buckner, 9-16-1825 - 9-21-1909, "Again our hopes to meet thee when the day of life is fled and in heaven with joy to greet thee where no farewell tears are shed" 8. G.A.B. - no dates 9. Curtis Miller, 6-8-1878 - 12-21-1951,( S/o Mack & Annie Briggs Miller) 10. Martha Crain "Mother" 1867 - 1929,(D/o Clingman & Sarah Honeycutt, W/o Wash Crain.) 11. Nora M. Fox, 12-8-1918 - 4-11-1943, (D/o Tom Howell & Suzan Honeycutt Edwards, W/o David Fox) 12. Baby Fox, 4-11-1937 (4-12-1936- Stillborn S/o David & Nora Fox) 13. Willie Jay Fender, 12-1-1923 - 12-2-1923 14. Earl Gene Fender, 12-9-1944 - 12-12-1944 15. Fannie S. Buckner M. (Miller) 3-16-1871 - 9-23-1948 "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith" ( W/o # 16 & # 9 - D/o Charles & Margaret Scronce). 16. W. R. Buckner, 11-9-1863 - 8-22-1909 "A loved one from us has gone a voice we love is stilled, a place is vacant in our home which never can be filled." (S/o # 6 & 7) 17. Samuel N. Buckner, 5-8-1861 - 3-21-1946 (S/o # 6 & 7) 18. Sarah Ann Fox Buckner, 12-21-1866 - 6-5-1920, W/o # 17 19. Isaac G. Shepherd, 12-11-1883 - 3-29-1976 (S/o Gaither & Jane Horton Shepherd) 20. Minnie J. Shepherd, 6-8-1885 - 9-2-1962, W/o # 19 (D/o Sam & Sarah A. Fox Buchanan) 21. Raymon I. Ponder, 5-21-1924 - 5-15-1958 (S/o Lewis & May Shepherd Ponder) 22. Horace W. Buckner, 8-15-1918 - 3-6-1942 - NC CPL MED DEPT, WW II 23. Pansy H. Buckner, 7-19-1893 - 5-19-1993, W/o # 24 24. Clyde S. Buckner, 2-20-1893 - 10-11-1975, (S/o # 15 & 16) 25. Lemmie Edwards, 1-27-1921 - 10-17-1947 'The Angels Called Him" 26. R. Lee Hamlin, 1882 - 1951(S/o Thomas & Mary Marshbanks Hamlin) 27. Inez Hamlin, 1891 - 19 ., W/o # 26 28. Edna B. Ingle, 6-5-1916 - 7-15-2002, (W/o # 29, D/o 23 & 24) 29. Rufus L. Ingle, 11-21-1911 - 5-18-1980, (S/o John & Amanda Chandler Ingle) 30. Onia Lee Shelton (Metal funeral home marker) 31. Marie S. Ray, 2-3-1930- 1-24-1973 (D/o Gaither & Flossie Hill Shepherd) 32. Willard G. Shepherd, 9-25-1907 - 8-7-1989 (S/o Isaac & Minnie Buckner Shepherd) 33. Roy G. Shepherd, 9-11-1922 - (S/o Isaac & Minnie Buckner Shepherd) 34. Unidentified (Wreath but no stone) 35. Pat Allen, 4-5-1968 - 3-10-1969 (D/o Frank Allen & Eloise Shelton) 36. Doshia Eloise Shelton, 5-11-1935 - 12-19-1991 (D/o Hubert & Oma Edwards Shelton) 37. John Harvey Buckner, 11-25-1898 - 6-30-1982 (S/o # 15 & 16) 38. Eliza Cody Buckner, 5-21-1901 - 7-17-1983, W/o # 37 39. Flossie Hill Shepherd, 7-26-1906 - 11-21-1993, W/o 40 (D/o Charlie & Lydia English Hill) 40. Gaither Levi Shepherd, 5-1-1903 - 10-21-1989 (S/o Isaac & Minnie Buckner Shepherd) 41. Michael Shawn Buckner, 10-31-1975 - 9-2-1980 "Son" 11 unidentified graves marked with fieldstones. (Info in parentheses is from death records or other sources) ___________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________