Patrick County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Cemeteries.....Cal Snead Cemetery - Complete Survey ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ron Martin cindyandron@bellsouth.net June 11, 2024, 12:22 am Abstracted By: Ron Martin This cemetery is very near the James Ingram, Sr. Cemetery as it is about .2 miles away. The GPS coordinates are 36.84416, -80.09225. It is literally on a peninsula and the lake is on three sides of the cemetery. It is high above the lake. Frankly there are no good directions on foot. The easiest way to get to this cemetery is to launch a boat at the Ryans Branch boat dock in the Union Bridge area and travel to this cemetery via water. However, that is risky because you would have to anchor your boat to the land some way and also the lake is VERY deep in that particular area. Once you were able to get out of the book, the mountain is very steep from the lake to the summit. From Fairy Stone Park Highway (Old Route 57), turn on Fairy Stone Lake Drive. Go about one mile and you will take the second state road to the left, which is Union Bridge Road. You will go perhaps six or seven miles to Union Primitive Baptist Church. Take a right onto Union Church Road. On Union Church Road, you will go in a curve to the right and there is a little gate there which leads to private property which you would need to get permission, but the landowner is fantastic. Just stay on that path until you crossover onto the United States Corps of Engineers property around the location of the Thomas Shelton Cemetery. Upon entering their property, you are on your own as you must turn northwest through the forest and go about .6 miles. However that is a VERY tough .4 miles as it will require you to scale at least two steep mountains of about 1200 feet in elevation as well as crossing two creeks. There is no path to this cemetery. Due to the remote location, there have not been any documented visits ever to this cemetery. The terrain is steep and treacherous. There are at least five graves in the cemetery. Three of the burials have stones but the other two are represented by crude fieldstones. Last Name First Name Middle Name Birth Death Comment ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bowles Infant February 27, 1911 February 27, 1911 Snead Carroll Cal April 18, 1848 April 11, 1925 Snead Hardin H December 29, 1891 1918 Snead Infant 1897 1897 Snead John A. 'Johnny' April 15, 1879 1900 Snead Mary Louisa 'Lou' Ingram January 27, 1855 March 10, 1934 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/patrick/cemeteries/calsnead139gcm.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb