YANCEY COUNTY, NC - CEMETERIES - Masters Cemetery ----¤¤¤¤---- From 197N turn onto Brush Creek Road, go past Deyton Bend Church and turn right up Brush Creek. Go about ½ mile and turn left and go to double wide trailer. Walk up to the right of this trailer and to the top of the ridge. Follow ridge to the left a good distance to the cemetery. Condition: Poor 1. Funeral home marker - unreadable (Thought to be Lyda Masters) 2. Florence A. Masters, 1911 - 1983 - Funeral Home Marker (9-19-1911 - 2-28-1983 - D/o Deforest Bandy & Ona Gravitt) 3. Alpheus D. Masters, 5-22-1860 - 3-22-1940, (S/o Jason & Jane Woody Masters) (Married 2-11-1885) 4. Sarah Riddle Masters, 1866 - 6-27-1948, (D/o Ancel & Mary Ann Masters, W/o # 3) 5. Jason Masters, 1886 - 1945,(S/o Alpheus & Sarah Riddle Masters) 6. Nora Forbes Masters, 1891 - 1954,(W/o # 5) 7. Mary Jane Masters, 7-24-1888 - 3-8-1898 9 yrs. 7 mo. 12 days 8. Maudeline Masters, 8-29-1934 - 8-5-1937 , 2 yrs, 11 mo. 7 days, (D/o Angus & Blanch Robinson Masters). 9. Mary Ann Riddle, 1827 - Feb 16, 1913-96 years,(W/o # 10) 10. Ancil Riddle, 8-3-1826 - 3-9-1896 11. Gene Masters, 1938 - 1 year (5-2-1937 - 6-19-1938 - S/o Angus & Blanch Robinson Masters) (Funeral home marker for # 1 was unreadable. Tombstones for 2-3 and 4-5 were overturned and not able to see engraving, # 11 was not seen, but information was taken from survey done by Mr. Grant Ward some years ago. Also some information was taken from death and census records) ___________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________