Yancey County, NC - Piercy Cemetery

PIERCY CEMETERY:  Location:  About 4 miles west of Burnsville 
turn onto Prices Creek.  Continue on up Horton Creek Road to 
Holcombe Branch.  Go about ½ mile.  Cemetery is on the right and 
is fenced and stands upon a steep hill surrounded by a pasture.

Condition:  Very badly grown up in bushes, weeds and briars

SURNAMES:  ANDERSON, HONEYCUTT, KING, MCINTOSH, PIERCY

1. Wm. E. (Ervin)  Piercy, Died 7-18-1892, Age 71 Yrs. 10 Mo.  16 Ds.
2. Lockey  (Horton) Piercy, Wife of Wm. E. Piercy,  Died  Oct. 2, 1889, 
   Age 65 Yrs. 9 mos & 5 ds. 
3. Dora Piercy, 9-19-1860 – 12-30-1891 (Wife of Wm. H. Piercy)
   Note:  I did not find this stone, but it was recorded on the 
   1939-40 WPA Survey.

Information from Mrs. Louise England states that the following are 
buried here:

[William and Mary Jane were her grandparents]

4. William M. Anderson – Born April 1856
5. Mary Jane Piercy Anderson – Born Nov. 1859
6. Kate Anderson Honeycutt, 8-2-1884 – 1-12-1939, Daughter of 
   William & Mary Jane Piercy, Wife of Jule Honeycutt.
7. May Anderson, Daughter of William and Mary Jane Piercy
8. Phillip King, 12-30-1943 – 1-14-1944. Infant son of Tarter and 
   Hortense McIntosh King
9. Alice Jean McIntosh, 12-6-1923, Infant of Willard & Annie 
   Anderson McIntosh

Information from Clarence Blackstock:  My late uncle, F. Piercy Carter 
of Asheville, told me that William and Lockey's son and daughter-in-law 
are buried here.

10. Robert Henry Piercy   (Son of # 1 & 2)
11. Margaret Louisa Anderson Piercy  (Wife of # 10) 

Aug 15, 2007

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