Altizer Family Cemetery, between Hiwassee & Snowville, Pulaski Co., VA.

Every death record I found indicates Snowville so will say it’s between the 2 until have better directions.

FB message sent Feb 22, 2022 to Seavers-Sanders Funeral Home in Radford asking if they could help with directions or better yet a map. No one responded as of Apr 2025.

Original Source: Contributed by Rena Worthen & her mother Margarette Tynan to Barb Stanley’s original Floyd Co., VA News List site. Rena gave location as Hiwassee.

Published Materials:

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.

Find A Grave Name: THIS CEMETERY IS NOT NOTED IN FIND A GRAVE as of Apr 2025

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]

Notes:

Photo

NAME

Original survey

BIRTH

DEATH

MARKER NOTES

ANNOTATIONS

No photo

Altizer, Andrew J 

&

Altizer, Virginia A 

yes

 

yes

1855

 

16 Nov 1867

24 Jun 1928

 

18 Oct 1952

 

Andrew James Altizer aka Andrew Jackson Altizer, s/o Elias Reed “Ale” & Rachel (Dulaney) Altizer. [Death Cert] YOB 1855 on death cert. [obit – can’t find] [Altizer_EliasR_Rachel_mcva]

m. 1882 Floyd

nee Virginia Alice “Jennie” Altizer, d/o John Wesley & Arminta (Sumpter) Altizer. [Death Cert] [Altizer_Elias_Cynthia]

 

The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Virginia · Sunday, October 19, 1952

No photo

Altizer, Archie M 

&

Altizer, Nobie P. (Phillips) 

yes

yes

10 Sep 1919

 

16 Nov 1911

20 Dec 1997

 

15 Apr 2003

TEC US Army WWII

married 12-5-1936

 aka Archie Madison Altizer, s/o Frank Taylor & Flora Isabel (Dulaney) Altizer. Frank s/o Madison Burdine & Minerva Kathryn (Bolling/Bolen) Altizer. [Altizer_EmeryJr_2wives_mcva]

 m. 1936 Floyd

nee Nobie Elizabeth Phillips, d/o Walter & Nannie Jane (Phillips) Phillips. Walter s/o Peter & Maranda (Moore) Phillips. Peter s/o Ambrose Cicero & Lucy (Jennings) Phillips of Carroll Co., VA. [no file]

 

ALTIZER, Archie Madison, 79, of Snowville, passed away Saturday, December 20, 1997 in Richfield Nursing Home. He was a member of Laurel Hill Church of Christ. He was a U.S. Army Veteran of WWII and was a retired employee of Clover Creamery with 40 years of service. Survivors include his wife, Nobie Phillips Altizer; daughter and her husband, Carolyn and Gray Hines of Snowville; son and his wife, Doug and Jean Altizer of Radford; brother, Frank Taylor Altizer Jr. of Phoenix, Ariz.; sister, Mrs. Edith A Williams of Newark, Del.; five grandchildren, Laura Kozar, Woody Altizer, Thomas Weeks II, Amy Bishop, Jennifer Bower; six great-grandchildren, Mindi Kozar, Malorie Bower, Chase Altizer, Rachel Bishop, Levi Bower, and Grayce Bishop. Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. Tuesday, December 23, 1997 at the Seaver-Sanders & Mullins Funeral Home in Radford with Lowell Altizer officiating. Interment will follow in the Altizer Family Cemetery at Snowville. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at the Seaver-Sanders & Mullins Funeral Home in Radford.

Roanoke Times, The (VA) - Monday, December 22, 1997

ALTIZER, Nobie Elizabeth Phillips, 91, of Snowville, passed away Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at Richfield Retirement Center in Salem. She was a member of the Laurel Hill Church of Christ. She was preceded in death by her husband, Archie Madison Altizer; her mother, Nancy Julienne Phillips; her father, Walter Phillips; her stepmother, Nolie Phillips; her sister, Recie Phillips; her brothers, Basil, Fred, Price, Cline and Stant Phillips; and her half-brothers, Roy and Melvin Phillips. Survivors include a daughter and her husband, Carolyn and Gray Hines of Snowville; a son and his wife, Douglas A. and Jean Altizer of Radford; two sisters, Dorothy Helen Pelkey of Snowville, and Frances Edna Ford of Radford; five grandchildren, Laura Kozar, Woody Altizer, Thomas Weeks II, Amy Horne and Jennifer Devore; and nine great-grandchildren, Mindi Kozar, Malorie Bower, Chase Altizer, Rachel Bishop, Levi Bower, Grayce Bishop, Mason Hines, Quinn Horne, Cara Altizer, and soon to be born, Baby Horne. Funeral services will be held Thursday, April 17, 2003, at 11 a.m. at the Mullins Funeral Home in Radford with Mr. C.E. Mannon officiating. Interment will follow in the Altizer Family Cemetery in Snowville. The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Mullins Funeral Home in Radford.

Roanoke Times, The (VA) - Wednesday, April 16, 2003

No photo

Altizer, Willie Sue 

yes

15 Sep 1928

03 Jan 1930

 

Willie Sue Altizer, d/o Clinton Hobart & Bessie Lillian (Quesenberry) Altizer. [Death Cert] [Altizer_EliasR_Rachel_mcva]

Her father, Clinton Hobart Altizer, s/o Andrew James & Virginia Alice “Jennie” (Altizer) Altizer.

Her mother, Bessie L. Quesenberry d/o George Washington Jr "Little George" & Sarah Melvina (Showalter) Quesenberry. [Quesenberry_GeorgeWSr_2wives]

The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Virginia · Sunday, January 12, 1930

No photo

Bishop, Bonnie "Sunny"

yes

20 Feb 1931

18 Jul 1965

 

Bonnie “Sonny” Bishop, s/o William Edward & Alma M. (Altizer) Bishop. [Death Cert] [obit can’t find] [no file]

m. (can’t find)

nee Polly Ann Wade, 1933-2005, b. Floyd, d/o Lawton B. & Rosa A. (Turman) Wade.

 

The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Virginia · Tuesday, July 19, 1965

The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Virginia · Tuesday, July 20, 1965

Polly Wade Bishop, 70, of Christiansburg, died Thursday, December 15, 2005 in Carilion New River Medical Center. She was preceded in death by her husband, Bonnie Bishop. Surviving are three sons, Billy W. Bishop and Kenneth D. Bishop, both of Christiansburg and James M. Bishop, Radford; also; two sisters, Tabby Swain, Sale, and Betty Turman Willis. Four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren also survive. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday, December 19, 2005 at the DeVilbiss Funeral Chapel with Pastor Rick Bolick officiating. Interment will follow in the Bishop Family Cemetery, Pulaski County. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, December 18, 2005 at the DeVilbiss Funeral Home, Radford.

Roanoke Times, The (VA) - Saturday, December 17, 2005

No photo

Bishop,  Cecil E 

yes

16 Feb 1925

04 Sep 1994

US Army

Cecil Edward Bishop, b. Pulaski Co., VA, s/o William Edward & Alma M. (Altizer) Bishop. [no file]

1st m. 1951 Pulaski & divorced from Ethel Virginia Farmer, d/o William “Bill” & Anna L. (Thompson) Farmer. [no file]

2nd m. 1970 Pulaski, Eunice Horton, nee Burton, d/o David M. & Nettie (O’Dell) Burton. [no file]

 

BISHOP, Cecil Edward, 69, of Hauchuca City, Arizona, formerly of Radford, passed away Sunday, September 4, 1994. He was a U. S. Army veteran of WWII. Survivors include one daughter, Regina Lucas of Arizona; one granddaughter; two sisters, Mrs. Susan Kraft of Christiansburg and Mrs. Lillian Suchstak, Waldon, N.Y.; one brother, Ralph Bishop of Radford; and several nieces and nephews. Graveside services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Altizer Cemetery in Snowville, with the Rev. Nathan Phillips officiating. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the Seaver-Sanders & Mullins Funeral Home in Radford.

No photo

Bishop, Mary Virginia 

yes

30 Apr 1923

Living Feb 2022?

 

Mary Virginia Bishop, d/o William Edward & Alma M. (Altizer) Bishop. [no file]

No photo

Bishop, Obed I. 

yes

03 Aug 1936

07 Mar 1983

A3CUSAF Korea

Obed Isiah/Isaac Bishop, s/o William Edward & Alma M. (Altizer) Bishop. [Death Cert] [no file]

m1 1957 Maryland, & div. 1980 Radford, Ruth Maxine Hollinsworth. No children.

 

The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Virginia · Tuesday, March 08, 1983

No photo

Bishop, Ralph Vernon 

yes

1 Dec 1921

11 Jun 1998

 

Ralph Vernon Bishop, s/o William Edward & Alma M. (Altizer) Bishop. [no file]

m. before 1949 (can’t find)

Margaret Anne Smith, d/o unknown.

 

BISHOP, Ralph Vernon, 76, of Dublin, passed away Thursday, June 11, 1998, at the Veterans Facility in Salem. He was a veteran of World War II, having served in the U.S. Army. Survivors include two sons, Thomas Vernon Bishop of Christiansburg, and Joey Bradley of Pittsburgh, Pa.; one daughter, Nancy Howard of Pittsburgh, Pa., two sisters, Mrs. Lillian Shustack of Walden, N.Y., and Mrs. Susan R. Kraft of Christiansburg; six grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews. Graveside services will be held Sunday, June 14, 1998, at 2 p.m. at the Altizer Cemetery in Snowville with Pastor Donald Leonard Jr. officiating. Members of VFW Post #776 will conduct military graveside rites. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the Seaver-Sanders & Mullins Funeral Home in Radford.

Roanoke Times, The (VA) - Saturday, June 13, 1998

No photo

Bishop, Walton E 

yes

31 Mar 1927

10 Feb 1950

Virginia PVT Inf WWII

Walton Elwood Bishop, never married s/o William Edward & Alma M. (Altizer) Bishop. [Death Cert] [no file]

 

The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Virginia · Sunday, February 12, 1950

No photo

Bishop, William Edward 

&

Bishop, Alma M.

yes

 

yes

5 Nov 1893

 

22 Sep 1899

05 Feb 1956

 

21 Oct 1984

Pvt US Army WWI

William Edward Bishop,  b. Pulaski Co., VA, s/o Henry Wade & Mary S. (Reid) Bishop. [Death Cert] Henry s/o Jacob & Anna (Hawley) Bishop. [no file]

m. can’t find

nee Alma M. Altizer, d/o Andrew James & Virginia Alice “Jennie” (Altizer) Altizer. [Death Cert] [Altizer_EliasR_Rachel_mcva]

 

The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Virginia · Tuesday, February 07, 1956

The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Virginia · Tuesday, October 23, 1984

 

Original Survey:

~Altizer Cemetery~
 Montgomery County

Located in Hiawassee

Contributed by Rena Worthen & Margarette Tynan

Archie M Altizer  9-10-1919  12-20-1997 TEC US Army WWII
Nobie P(hillips) Altizer 11-16-1911 ____ married 12-5-1936
Cecil E Bishop USArmy 2-16-1925 9-4-1994
Obid I Bishop A3CUSAF Korea 8-3-1936  3-7-1983
William Edward Bishop 11-5-1893  2-5-1956 Pvt US Army WWI
Alma M Altizer 9-22-1899  10-21-1984
"Sunny" Bonnie Bishop 1931 - 1956 (bro of Cecil & Obid.)
Walton E Bishop Virginia PVT Inf WWII 3-31-1927  2-10-1950
Mary Virginia Bishop 4-30-1923  9-25-1929 ( parents at Sunset)
Willie Sue Altizer 9-15-1928  1-3-1930
Ralph Vernon Bishop 1921 - 1998
Andrew J Altizer 1853 - 1928 &
Virginia A Altizer 1863 - 1952