Tazewell County, Virginia, Cemeteries:  Elijah Vance Cemetery (Johnson's Branch)

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Elijah Vance Cemetery
Johnson's Branch
Tazewell County, Virginia
No. 51 on Library Map

This Cemetery is located on State Route 643 on the Old Elijah
(Govenor) Vance homplace. 

Leaving the Town of Tazewell on State Route 16 toward Bishop, Virginia. Continue 
on through Adria, Virginia, at the Foot of Stoney Ridge Mtn. Make a left onto 
State Route 643. Continue on to the Rye Cemetery Beside the road to the left.
There is a dirt road behind the Rye Cemetery going back down the hill.  Walk 
down this road. There will be an old road to the right. It is in between two 
hills. The cemetery will be half way up the hill to the left on the first flat 
landing. If you go to the top of the hill, you have gone to far.  It is only 
about half way up.

Known Burials

Elijah Alexander Vance                   Co. I 10th  Ky. Cav. C.S.A.

Ava (Duff) (Addison) Vance
To the left of Elijah Vance marked with a field stone.

Rebecca (Whitt) Vance                    b: Aug. 25th 1845 - d: Sept. 2nd 1900
To the right of Elijah Vance                         (Gone Home)


Anna E. Rose                             b: May 10th 1835 - d:Aug. 17th 1903

Mattie Rose                              d: Sept. 15th 1903       27 Yrs.

Jesse M. Rye                             b: Nov. 14th 1900 - May 31st 1903
                                         Son of W.W. & S.A. Rye

Cody W. Rye                              b: June 7th 1884 -d: Sept. 23rd 1902


(Cemetery was raked and briars, vines etc. cut and Elijah Vance's stone reset 
July of 2003.)