DICKENSON COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES - Presley Cemetery ----¤¤¤---- LATITUDE/LONGITUDE 370616N 0822102W (Per USGS Quad Map: NORA, VA) DIRECTIONS >From Stratton, VA take Route 652 up Crooked Branch Hollow about 1.3 mile to Liza Gap, take the left leading upwards towards Sutherland Ridge. This road has been improved since the USGS map for NORA was last updated. Follow this road for about 3/4 mile to Presley Cemetery on right. FIELD NOTES: 11/23/98 The Presley cemetery is large, well kept and has it's own covered "mini- chapel" for outside services. It is right by the road and marked with a large sign. The survey began in the SE corner. FORMAT Note: Items in parenthesis are the best guess of the researcher. Items in brackets are my comments. A double stone is two people on one stone - usually husband and wife unless otherwise indicated. "Similar stone" indicates that the stones were of similar design perhaps helping to identify wives and husbands. MAJOR SURNAME LIST BALL, BOGGS, COUNTS, DAVIS, ELKINS, HARLOW, KISER, LOTHERY, NEECE, PRESLEY, PUCKETT, RAMSEY, ROSE, SILCOX, STOUT, SUTHERLAND, VANOVER, WILSON LISTING OF GRAVE MARKERS ======================================================== Timothy Austin Neece, Jan 19 1996 - Mar 25 1996 Carmel Eugene Ball, Oct 8, 1948 - Jun 21 1997 SSGT US Air Force, Vietnam Wilma J. Sutherland [Reservation plaque] Fred Parmer Sutherland, 1900 - 1998 Myrtle E. Sutherland [Reservation plaque] Parcus H. Sutherland, Mar 12 1922 - Mar 20 1996 S1 US Navy, WWII [double stone] Bill Vanover, 1904 -1988 Gladys, 1904 - 1971 Married Nov 17, 1937 Leafy Elkins, 1922 - 1990 Edna Elkins, Jun 20, 1890 - Feb 4, 1977 Tivis R. Counts, Feb 27, 1889 - July 30, 1989 [Son of William "Billy" Lewis & Nancy Rose Counts] Emma E. Counts, born Nov 2, 1902 [Actually Emma Amburgey d. of Elijah & Catherine Phillips Amburgey, 2nd wife of Tivis R. Counts] Lampros Calo, May 15, 1889 - Mar 2, 1970 Greece, PVT Co I, World War I James C. Silcox "Butch", Aug 6, 1952 - Jan 1 1983 Pauline Silcox, May 1 1927 - May 25, 1981 Ernest G. Silcox, June 7, 1920 - Sep 27 1989 PFC US Army, WWII Louisa L. Silcox, Jan 27, 1897 - Feb 11 1972 David T. Silcox, Apr 26, 1893 - Apr 26 - 1957 Virginia, VT CO A., 109 Inf 28 Division, WWI Roy Clay Ramsey, 1952 - 1952 Ronald Ramsey, Oct 1, 1978 - Oct 1, 1978 Mother, Ruby Ruth Ramsey, Oct 31, 1930 - Apr 29, 1961 [double stone] Elihu C. Kiser, Mar 12 1900 - Dec 16, 1960 Elsie B. Kiser, Dec 12, 1906 [double stone] Rufus Silcox, 1890 - 1972 Lillie Silcox, 1895 - 1984 Roy Allen Silcox, Aug 30, 1928 - Jan 16, 1969 Virginia QM 1 US Navy WWII/Korea [Military plaque has death date as Jan 17, 1969] James Swin Rose, Feb 6, 1905 - Apr 26, 1980 Jasper Lee Rose, Apr 21, 1924 - Oct 4, 1970 Virginia CPL 397 Bomb Grp AAF, WWII Fernada London Rose, May 28, 1926 - Jan 13, 1969 Ruth R. Wilson, 1930 - 1958 Tommy B. Ramsey, 1932 - 1952 Lawson Ramsey, 1908 - 1932 [Marker includes a photo-tile] Goldie M. Harlow, 1919 - 1984 [double stone] William H. Harlow, Aug 15, 1900 - Sep 17, 1986 Princie G. Harlow, July 28, 1889 - Dec 18, 1997 married Aug 6, 1919 [William H. Harlow is William Homer Harlow, son of Oscar Chalkley Harlow and Julia Silcox Harlow. Princie G. is Princie Gertrude Counts dau of Elijah Shelby Counts and Clenza Prutina Edwards Counts] Heather Rene Davis, Jun 3, 1989 [double stone - indicates mother and son] Lucille Swafford, 1925 - 1997 Robert W. Mullins, 1951 - [double stone] Gary Dean Coleman, 1938 - ,Father Janice Gaynell Coleman, 1942 - 1991 Sophie Jane Mapes, Feb 22, 1909 - Aug 9, 1989 Mary M. Sutherland, Mar 13, 1884 - Apr 12, 1956 Martha A. Pruitt, Apr 27, 1892 - May 27, 1964 [double stone] Douglas W. Ramsey 1910 - Sarah Ellen Ramsey, 1913 - 1994 Ida Mae Ramsey, 1889 - 1963, Mother [similar stone] Simeon Clay Ramsey, 1879 - 1947 Walter C. Ramsey, Jun 23, 1920 - Jul 31, 1994 PVT, US Army Air Corps, WWII Nannie C. Sutherland, Feb 2 1891 - Dec 17, 1971 [double stone] George H. Boggs, Dec 25, 1904 - Apr 12, 1973 Donnie S. Boggs, Aug 22, 1904 - Feb 17, 1977 [double stone] Burel Gay Boggs, Aug 10, 1926 - Jul 15, 1980 Helen S. Boggs, Nov 15, 1949 married. Dec 23, 1978 [on back of stone reads:] "Gay, I'll love you forever, Helen" [double stone] Geter E. Lothery, Jul 16, 1918 - Nov 29, 1973 Ruby A. Lothery, Sep 9, 1923 - Sep 11, 1982 Jessy Malcum Lothery, Sep 17, 1977 - Sep 17, 1977 [double stone] Rockford Sutherland, May 5, 1910 - Jan 22, 1998 Bessie A. Sutherland, Nov 26, 1911 - Feb 8, 1972 Jerry A. Sutherland, Apr, 12, 1953 [baby] Tara Lea Turner, Nov 30, 1971 [baby] Willie Buford Vest, 1908 - 1990 Bessie Ann Vest, Dec 7, 1906 - Sep 15, 1987 Susan Stout, Apr 25, 1881 - Jun 2, 1958 Nell Stout, 1928 - 1933, daughter of Roy and Alice Stout Snoda Laura Sutherland, Mar 22, 1904 - Mar 18, 1890 [similar stone] Simon 'Sim' Sutherland, Jun 15, 1895 - Jun 10, 1979 Joshua D. Presley, husband of Eliza J. Presley, 1848 - Jan 3, 1882 [This stone is at the highest point of the hill, the only Presley in the cemetery, and a flagpole is erected by his stone. He is Joshua Dickenson Presley, son of Ephraim Presley and Margaret Jane Colley Presley] Alexander J. 'Smack' Sutherland, Nov 14, 1886 - jan 31, 1975 [son of William Floyd Sutherland and Didame Sutherland] Elbert Lee Davis, our son, 1929 - 1954 Raymond Widener, Jan 13, 1910 - Oct 26, 1969 [double stone] William Morgan Sutherland, Nov 29, 1890 - Oct 14, 1981 Nannie E. Sutherland, May 19, 1896 - July 5, 1974 [double stone] Elmer R. Sutherland, Jan 12, 1920 - May 24, 1996 Delmer G. Sutherland, Jan 12, 1921 - Dec 10, 1986 [double stone] Norris G. Sutherland, May 30, 1924 - Apr 6, 1983 M. Irene Sutherland, Sep 18, 1926 - [double stone] Roosevelt Sutherland, Dec 20, 1911 - Apr 7, 1993 Hilda P. Sutherland, Jan 5, 1916 - Jan 10, 1983 [Roosevelt Sutherland most probably son of William Floyd Sutherland and Mary Hicks Sutherland] [double stone] Robert F. Stout, Oct 1, 1910 - May 13, 1985 Vesta M. Stout, Jan 10, 1914 - Riley Lee Stout, Jun 7, 1934 - Dec 10, 1987 Effie May Sutherland, Jun 16, 1896 - Dec 21, 1979 Cap Eugene Sutherland, Apr 10, 1906 - Oct 2, 1982 [Son of William Floyd Sutherland and Mary Hicks Sutherland] Georgie Alice Sutherland, Jan 4, 1912 - Dec 12, 1934 Dixie Edwards, Aug 11, 1910 - Apr 12, 1981 Ferrell David Puckett, Oct 14, 1922 - May 12, 1968 Virginia SSMC2 USNR, WWII [double stone] Belle Puckett, 1889 - 1954 Walter G. Puckett, 1885 - 1961 [double stone] Alvie E. Puckett, 1914 - 1982 Ethel T. Puckett, 1917 - 1989 Eura Puckett, Sep 3, 1908 - Oct 3, 1909, child of Belle and Walter Puckett Randy L. Marshall, Oct 23, 1969 - Oct 8, 1978 [double stone] Thomas E. Marshall, Jun 12, 1927 - May 12, 1989 Prudy M. Marshall, Aug 29, 1926 - Jeffrey L. Marshall, Apr 2, 1963 - Nov 19, 1984 [double stone] Stacy A. Viers, Nov 21, 1921 - Oct 16, 1995 PFC US Army WWII, Purple Heart Thurlene Viers, Feb 28, 1928 [double stone] Clifford C. Rasnick, Aug 2, 1917 - Apr 26, 1998 Cpl US Army WWII America M. Rasnick, Apr 26, 1920 - married May 10, 1948 ======================================================== RESEARCHER NOTES: I am interested in identifying more of the Sutherlands and relatives who are interred here as my family comes from the next ridge over and there's probably more than casual relationships involved. If you are familiar with any of these people (esp the late 1800's and early 1900's) please feel free to e-mail me. PHOTOGRAPHS AVAILABLE Some photographs were taken of the stones under the best light and angle possible, but it is almost always true that more information can be discerned from being there, especially because the pictures are stored in the 'lossy' compressed format of .JPG. Send your request to me at zens@mindspring.com, and give me 2 days to figure out which zip disk they’re on or if i’ve even taken those pictures. There is no charge, just trying to help. ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Zen Sutherland zens@mindspring.com ___________________________________________________________________