YANCEY COUNTY, NC - CEMETERIES - Hannum (Aka Byrd) Cemetery
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:  Location:  From 19E at Cane River turn down 19W-North and go 14 miles.  
Turn left directly across from Byrd Chapel Baptist Church at the "Ramseytown" 
sign onto SR # 1444 "Will Higgins Road",  Cross river and turn right.  Go .4 
mile,  cemetery is on the left.
Condition:  Fenced and well kept

SURNAMES:  ADKINS, BENNETT, BROWN, BYRD, COX, HANNUM, HENSLEY, HIGGINS, 
MILLER, TALLENT, TIPTON

  1.  Annie Mae Tipton, 7-4-1909 - 9-24-1976, 
      (D/o John Henry & Kitty Peake Tipton)
  2.  John A. Hannum, 7-27-1873 - 1-9-1957
  3.  Hettie Byrd Hannum, 3-17-1881 - 10-22-1965, Wife of # 1
  4.  James Cyron Hannum, 6-21-1903 - 7-14-1904, "Our Darling Baby" 
      S/o # 2 & 3
  5.  Ora Belle Byrd Tallent, 12-27-1911 - 5-19-1999
  6.  J. F. Byrd, 1846 - 1911
  7.  Mary Parsons Byrd, 1849 - 1937, Wife of # 6
  8.  Minnie Byrd Brown, 1877 - 1898
  9.  Ida Byrd, 2-20-1876 - 7-14-1892, Daughter of # 6 & 7.  
      "Her spirit smiles from that bright shore 
       and softly whispers weep no more".
 10.  Ralph Miller, 11-1-1944 - 1-17-1985, SP4 US Army
 11.  Maude T. Miller, 11-19-1913 - 12-27-1997, Wife of # 12
 12.  Floyd Miller, 5-22-1913  -               .
 13.  Jerry A. Bennett, 1889 - 1973 
 14.  Retty B. Bennett, 1898 - 1978, Wife of # 13
 15.  C. R. Byrd, 10-25-1818 - 1-16-1897, "Let our Father's will be done"
 16.  Nellie Byrd, 1-31-1823 - 9-4-1899, W/o # 15. 
      "Having finished life's duty she now sweetly rests"
 17.  Carl Byrd, 9-15-1894 - 2-17-1965, SGT C I  9 Inf.  WW I
 18.  Emma T. Tallent, 4-16-1891 - 5-15-1967
 19.  Frank Tallent, 1951 - 1968.  "Son"
 20.  Mary J. Higgins, 6-18-1851 -  11-27-1939
 21.  J. Will Higgins, 1870 - 1957
 22.  Maggie P. Higgins, 1873 - 1963, Wife of # 21
 23.  Maude L. Higgins, 9-11-1899 - 2-14-1973
 24.  Evelyn Higgins, 3-31-1922 - 10-21-1979
 25.  James Miller, 6-14-1918 - 4-4-1952
 26.  Jim Higgins, 1878 - 1939
 27.  Bruce Higgins, 1914 - 1995, LT COL, US Air Force, WW II, Korea
 28.  Ruth Frady Higgins, 9-29-1916 -            . Wife of # 27
 29.  Kels Adkins, 8-27-1883 - 9-12-1946
Note:   Elaine Dellinger and I were told that slaves were buried outside the 
fence.  By using a probe and other methods found two graves.  The flat 
fieldstone markers were buried beneath the sod.


In a fenced area adjacent to the above cemetery  are the following:
  1.  Hiram Bulow Hensley, 9-2-1888 - 11-14-1985 PFC US Army, WW I
  2.  Mary Jane Hensley, 4-11-1888 - 10-28-1992, Wife of # 1, Married 9-20-1920
  3.  Horace H. Cox, 6-26-1928 - 7-27-2001, Pvt. US Army,   Mason
  4.  Cara W. Cox , 2-19-1930 -        .  Wife of # 3, 



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