Patrick County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Cemeteries.....James Ingram Sr. Cemetery - Complete Survey
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Ron Martin cindyandron@bellsouth.net June 11, 2024, 12:16 am

Abstracted By: Ron Martin

This cemetery is in an extremely remote area and is quite 
difficult to navigate.  It is the oldest cemetery on the 
United States Army Corps of Engineers property on the 
Philpott Dam project.   The GPS coordinates are 36.84314, 
-80.09595.    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 .4 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, few people 
have ever been to this cemetery.   The terrain is steep and 
treacherous.

Last Name     First Name    Middle Name   Birth       Death       Comment
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Ingram Sr.    James         Benjamin      1745        1816        
Ingram        Martha        'Patsy'       1748        1822        



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