Yancey County, NC - Byrd Cemetery - Coxes Creek ~~~~~~~~~~ BYRD CEMETERY (Coxes Creek) - Location: From 19E, 3 miles west of Burnsville turn onto Jacks Creek Road and go to Coxes Creek Road. Follow Coxes Creek to top of mountain, turn down the other side of the mountain and go past an old house on the right, then immediately you will come to a driveway on the right. Cemetery is located on the right on the steep bank just as you turn up this driveway. Condition: Fair 1. Marcus L. (Lafayette) Bennett, Sept. 3, 1856 - Oct. 29, 1958 Age 102, (Son of Gaines and Lavina Peterson Bennett) 2. Charlotte Byrd, Feb. 10, 1874 - Oct. 17, 1942 - 68y, 8 m, 7 days, (D/o Sam and Nancy Adkins Williams, Wife of Jim Byrd) 3. Thelma Byrd, Nov. 5, 1933 - Nov. 18, 1933, (D/o Jim & Belle Byrd) 4. Jim (James Avery) Byrd, Dec. 5, 1865 - Oct. 15, 1949, (Son of Newton & Cordelia Tipton Byrd Courtesy of Mike Sheen ______________________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________________