Patrick County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Cemeteries.....Cal Snead Cemetery - Complete Survey
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Ron Martin cindyandron@bellsouth.net March 11, 2024, 7:36 pm

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 and it is on property belonging to the 
United States Corps of Engineers.    It is literally on a 
peninsula and the lake is on three sides of the cemetery.  
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 .6 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
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Bowles        Infant                             February 27, 1911  February 27, 1911  This was the daughter of Charles Bowles and Carrie Snead Bowles whose parents are buried here.
Snead         Carroll       Cal                  April 11, 1848     April 11, 1925     
Snead         Mary          Louisa 'Lou' Ingram  January 27, 1855   March 10, 1934     



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