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Akers Family Cemetery, on Dye Rd off of McNiel Hill Rd, NE, Floyd Co., VA. 2121 Location Update: This is a two-person gravesite, alongside the access for 285 Dye Road NE which is is to the left of Hwy 671 marker on photo. (Dye Rd has not been identified by this aerial photo) Proceed abt 420 yards from McNeil Hill Rd NE. Cemetery on the right - fenced and well maintained. The cemetery stones are flat markers, not upright stones. Verified by Tracy C. July 2021. Last visited by Tracy C. July 2021. 37.046803 N, 80.304083 W
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Original Source: Floyd Co., VA Hx Society via Jim Slusher
Published Books: Cemeteries Floyd (Montgomery) County, VA Indian
Valley District Volume I by Elza B. Cox & Phyllis G. Phillips ©1980.
Added with permission of Elza B. Cox Nov. 2022. Floyd (Montgomery) County, VA Burks
Fork District Volume II Compiled by Phyllis Goad Phillips And Genevieve
Cochran Starkey 1st of 109 Cemeteries pg 1-2. Added
with permission of Genevieve Cochran Starkey May 2021. Tombstone Inscriptions of Floyd County, Virginia ~
Compiled by Donna J. Robertson ~ © 1993 Head of the River, Rest Vale, Copper Hill
Brethren, Wilson’s ~ Cemeteries in Floyd County ~ Work compiled by Billy
& Juanita Grice, Salem, VA 1886-1997 Others submitted to original Floyd County, VA News List 1st maintained by Barb Stanley (1934-2006); compilers will be individually identified. |
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Find A Grave Name: Akers Cemetery, Terrys Fork, Floyd Co., VA |
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Annotations –
added by Barb Camery Reininger BootsWI@gmail.com
+ indicates on same tombstone
& indicates a relationship
FAG: Find a Grave [Death Record n/a] Floyd Co., VA Death Records n/a 1863-1864 & parts of other years seeming to be missing. [Death Cert n/a] Virginia Death
Records, with some exceptions, not available 1899-Jun 14, 1912. src:
Virginia
Vital Records • FamilySearch]
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Notes: (src: Find A Grave; contributor unknown) William Henry Akers was in Co. H. 4th VA Reserves in
the War Between the States. He and his son are buried in a field just off
Daniel's Run on McNeil Hill Rd. William was married to Elizabeth Akers (Akers
before her marriage. Elizabeth was born 9 June 1825 and died 6 April 1902 and
is buried at the Wilson Cemetery in Floyd County, not too far from where
William is buried. She is buried very near her daughter Susan Virginia Akers
who was born 11 June 1857 and died 17 Jan. 1934. Susan was married to Robert
Smith. Here is a list of the children from census records: Ona Jane, Samuel
O., William J., Mary A., Sarah M., Tabitha S. also called Susan Virginia,
Nancy Ellen, John B., James H., Charley, and Armilla Lee. |
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