YANCEY COUNTY, NC - CEMETERIES - Stiles Cemetery ----¤¤¤¤---- Location: Approximately 3 miles west of Burnsville turn onto Phipps Creek road and go about 1.2 miles, turn on Ball Road then almost immediately turn left into private drive. Walk to top of the hill and follow the ridge till you come to a fence, cross here and cemetery is a short distance further on top of the ridge. Condition: Abandoned and grown up in bushes and weeds. 1. Wesley Stiles - Co. C 58 NC Inf. CSA (Born Feb. 1836 ) Said to be buried here: 2. Hester Ray Stiles, W/o Wesley Stiles, 3. Willard Stiles, young son of Wesley & Hester Ray Stiles. 4. Lizzie Elkins Melton Robinson. Daughter of Jim Elkins, 1st married Henry Melton; 2nd married Tommy John Robinson, who is buried on Bakers Creek. Tommy John was the son of Greene B. & Elizabeth Ray Robinson. Lizzie lived in an old house, chimney still standing, just above the gate to Mountain Air. This is also said to be the old Wesley Stiles house. ___________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________