YANCEY COUNTY, NC - CEMETERIES - Fender (Ragan) Cemetery ----¤¤¤¤---- From Bald Mountain Road, turn onto Riddle Branch and go to Wellspring Lane, turn here and Go to end of lane. Cemetery is on a hill above a barn. SURNAMES: BUTTKE, FENDER, WARD 1. Gladys Fender Ward, 1930 - 2003,( D/o # 3 & 4) 2. Kurl Fender, 5-8-1937 - 11-11-1965 "Sleep on faithful loved one and take thy rest, God called thee home, He thought it best", (S/o # 3 & 4) 3. Zora Fender,1-15-1910 - 3-17-2002, (Wife of # 4, D/o Bob & Harriett Hylemon Pate) 4. Ragan Fender, 10-4-1904 - 3-7-1981, (S/o Zack & Mattie Massey Fender) 5. Katherine Fender Buttke, 12-4-1939 - 3-18-1988. "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God", Footstone: " Katherine F. Buttke, PFC, US MARINE CORPS". (D/o # 3 & 4.) 6. Unidentified - marked with fieldstone 7. Unidentified - marked with fieldstone 8. Unidentified - marked with fieldstone (One of the unidentified graves is thought to be little, Emma Bann Honeycutt, child of Andy Honeycutt, who died at about 18 months and was buried on the ridge out to the right from the house) (Info. in parentheses are 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 ___________________________________________________________________