YANCEY COUNTY, NC - CEMETERIES - Gardner Cemetery
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GARDNER CEMETERY  Location:  About 2 miles west of Burnsville, and about .1 
mile past Mt. Heritage High School park on left side of road;  walk up the 
hill a short distance to cemetery visible from road. Condition:  One side is 
well taken care of, but  other side is unkempt.

SURNAMES: ANGEL, ANGELL, BRIGGS, ELLIOTT, EVANS, 
GARDNER, HENSLEY, ROBINSON, WHEELER, WILSON

 1.  C. H. Angel, 10/8/1877 - 3/25/1878 
"He bloomed to us a Darling and went to Christ a Jewel"

 2.  Eliza J. Angel, 1/6/1837 - 3/21/1906

 3.  Elizabeth Wilson, 1842 - 7/15/1904

 4.  Daniel A. Angel, Co. B.  NC Inf.  CSA  (No dates)

 5.  Charlie F. Gardner, 4/19/1892 - 9/18/1952, 
    S/o Jim & Amanda McCandless Gardner

 6.  Daisy M. Gardner, 11/26/1902 -  1/10/1996,  Wife of # 5, 
    D/o Stonewall & Elizabeth Styles Brown.

 7.  Rufus L. Gardner, 10/25/1874 - 3/11/1945  S/Sgt HQ Btry 61  WW I

 8.  Zula Wheeler, 5/18/1909 -                  Wife of # 9

 9.  George Wheeler, 8/26/1906 - 2/11/1968, Son of # 10 & 11

10.  Jim Wheeler, 8/27/1881 - 8/23/1964, S/o Jesse & Nelle Byrd Wheeler

11.  Lindia Wheeler, 5/18/1885 - 3/17/1952, Wife of # 10, 
     Daughter of  George & Maggie Shelton Hilemon

12.  Pansy Wheeler Robinson, 1/16/1920 - 6/8/1987, Wife of # 13, D/o # 10 & 11

13.  Gather Robinson, 5/15/1900 - 2/20/1973, Son of Young & Arrie Robinson

14.  Martha Jane Elliott, 4/19/1939 - 5/24/1990, Daughter of # 5 & 6

15.  Virgle Lee Hensley, 2/10/1933 - 4/17/1980, 
     S/o Monroe & Hettie Bryant Hensley

16.  Charles B. Briggs, 6/12/1876 - 8/29/1944

17.  Letha Briggs, 1/31/1893 - 8/8/1937

18.  Lawrence Evans, 1878 - 1947

19.  Mollie A. Evans, 7/20/1856 - 5/28/1910, Wife of J.P.Evans

Several  graves marked with field stones

20.  Ronald Everette Angell, 4/1/1937 - 10/23/1978 
     (This grave is located outside the fenced cemetery)  Well kept.

Note:  This at one time might have been called the ANGEL Cemetery since the 
oldest marked graves are those of Angels.  On Jim and Linda Wheeler's death 
certificate it was referred to as the BRIGGS Cemetery.