YANCEY COUNTY, NC - CEMETERIES - Peterson (Elbert) Cemetery ----¤¤¤¤---- At Ramseytown turn onto Coxes Creek Road, go .3 mile and turn right on a driveway that crosses the creek. Park here and take the road around the hill to the right about ½ mile. As you approach a cabin, turn right and follow this road around and up the hill to the cemetery. Condition: Fair SURNAMES: PETERSON, TIPTON 1. Unidentified grave marked with fieldstones. (Seems to be adult) 2. Lakie Mullins Peterson, 6-19-1907 - 11-12-1979, (wife of # 3, D/o George & Harriett Tomlinson Mullin.) 3. Allen Lester Peterson, 10-25-1888 - 12-21-1968 - "Married 12/23/1925" ( S/o # 8 & 9.) 4. June Tipton, 1935 - 1935 "At Rest", (Stillborn Infant daughter of Euphrates & Texa Peterson Tipton. Born 9-26-1935 ) 5. Floyd Peterson, 1905 - 1945 "Sweetly Resting", (Dates on Death Cert. 8-3-1904- 2-21-1945, S/o of # 8 & 9, Wife was Etta Peterson) 6. Cornelis Peterson - (no dates on stone) (S/o # 8 & 9 - born July 1891) 7. General Peterson - (no dates on stone) (S/o # 8 & 9, Death cert. gives dates as 5-31-1898 -11-11-1915) 8. Elbert Peterson, 10-17-1861 - 3-21-1906 "At Rest" 9. Barbara Ann Peterson, 6-17-1864 - 1-27-1946 "Asleep in Jesus" (Wife of # 8, D/o of Howell & Jane Hensley Edwards) 10. William B. Peterson, 3-21-1895 - 11-9-1949 (Wm. Burgess - S/o # 8 & 9) (Notes in parenthesis are from death certificates, census 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 ___________________________________________________________________