HENRICO:  CEMETERY RECORDS – WILLIS M.E. CHURCH GRAVEYARD

Contributed by:  Joan Renfrow

NOTICE:  I have no relationship or further information in regards to this 
family.  

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Willis M.E. Church graveyard:
                  1937 June 24
                  Research made by Benjamin G. Garner

Cemetery Location:  East from the corporation limits of Richmond, Va., on Rt. 
                    #60 8.9 miles, turn south (right) on Rt. $156 for 9 miles, 
                    thence west side of road about 50 yards from highway.
                    Henrico County




This old graveyard is next to Willis M.E. Church and is not fenced in.  It is 
not very well kept.


In memory of
Thomas Guy
Dec. 30, 1842
March 27, 1914


Mary Binford Guy
Sept. 29, 1847
Jan. 1888


Franklin J. Guy
June 16, 1871
Sept. 27, 1892


In memory of
Joseph B. Smith
Born Jan. 9, 1831
Died Dec. 4, 1884


In memory of
Mary F. Watkins
Born October 9, 1856
Died July 23, 1883


In memory of
R. T. Smith
Born Sept. 5, 1811
Died Sept. 11, 1898


Mary J. Smith
(unreadable)


Nannie C. Fuqua
Born July 8th, 1862
Died Nov. 17, 1918
“At Rest”


Edward C. Fuqua
Born Sept. 3, 1834
Died Sept. 14, 1910
“At Rest”


Annie R. Baker
Born May 10, 1853
Died Oct. 2, 1912


At Rest
Mary E. Sharp
Wife of R. T. Patterson
Born April 19, 1849
Died Nov. 18, 1919


Joseph E. Rock
Born Nov. 14, 1830
Died Nov. 20, 1904
“Earth has no sorrow
that Heaven cannot heal”


William H. Fuqua
Born Oct. 8, 1859
Died Feb’y 4, 1908
“Gone but not forgotten”


Rebecca J. Fuqua
Born Aug. 10, 1839
Died Aug. 28, 1907
“A voice we loved is still”


William E. Baker
Born May 19, 1840
Died June 24, 1921


In memory of
Florence V. Wharton
Beloved wife of
J. H. Southall
Born Aug. 4, 1857
Died Dec. 14, 1829


James E. Crittenden
Born Nov. 8, 1848
Died April 24, 1915
“At Rest”


In memory of
Mary W.
wife of 
James E. Crittenden
Born Jan. 18, 1834
Died May 3, 1895
“I shall go to her but
she shall not return to me”


John F. Barnes Jr.
Born Nov. 8, 1857
Died Feb’y 14, 1913
“At Rest”


R. A. Wallace
Died Dec. 21, 1893
Age 60 years