Pleasant Cole Cemetery, off Coles Knob Road on Stonewall Road NE, Pilot, Floyd Co., VA. Cemetery behind 1st  house on left, back in the woods. Good walk from road.

N 36.5425  W 80.25568  ELEVATION: 2796ft

 

Google Maps using above coordinates – NOT VERIFIED

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Crystal Goodrum May 2021)

Original Source: Documented by Genevieve Starkey and Judy Blackwell (no date noted)

or Submitted by Janice Smyth to Barb Stanley’s original Floyd Co., VA News List site Located by knocking on doors & asking directions.

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.

Find A Grave Name: Cole aka Pleasant Cole Cemetery, Pilot, Floyd Co., VA.

Left from Rt 612 on Rt 608. Cemetery is behind Tyree home, Rt 1, Box 285, Pilot, Floyd, VA. On a hill, overgrown and hard to find.

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: Possible burial site of Dr. John Lewis Harvey, b. Apr 4, 1886, d. Jun 27, 1939, s/o Robert Owen & Delilah Esther A. "Lila" Lancaster) Harvey. Married Elizabeth “Bessie” Coles. [DeathCert]

Photo

NAME

Original

survey

BIRTH

DEATH

MARKER NOTES

ANNOTATIONS

(src: Find A Grave; photos added by Chrystal Goodrum May 2021)

Cole, Meridith L.

yes

10 Feb 1869

30 Mar 1884

 

Meredith Luther Cole, s/o Pleasant & Sarah Jane (Lawrence) Cole. [1884 Death Register] [obit not found] [Cole_Bird]

(src: Find A Grave; photos added by Chrystal Goodrum May 2021)

Cole, Pleasant

yes

4 June 1842

7 Dec 1933

 

Pleasant Cole, s/o Bird & 2nd wife Sarah Elizabeth (Underwood) Cole; m. Sarah Jane Lawrence 1868 Floyd. [DeathCert] [Cole_Bird]

m. 1868 Floyd

nee Sarah Jane Lawrence, d/o William & Sarah (Booth) Lawrence. [Lawrence_William_Sarah]

 

The World-News Roanoke, Virginia · Thursday, December 07, 1933

 

 

(src: Find A Grave; photos added by Chrystal Goodrum May 2021)

Cole, Sarah J.

yes

14 Jul 1850

19 Apr 1933

 

nee Sarah Jane Lawrence, d/o William & Sarah (Booth) Lawrence. [DeathCert] [Lawrence_William_Sarah] [obit not found]

m. 1868 Floyd

Pleasant Cole, s/o Bird & 2nd wife Sarah Elizabeth (Underwood) Cole; m. Sarah Jane Lawrence 1868 Floyd. [Cole_Bird]

(src: Find A Grave; photos added by

Chrystal Goodrum May 2021)

Cole, Tannie Gay

yes

6 Nov 1872

9 Mar 1950

 

Tannie Gay Cole, d/o Pleasant & Sarah Jane (Lawrence) Cole. [DeathCert] [Cole_Bird]

 

The Roanoke Times Roanoke, Virginia · Saturday, March 11, 1950

 

(src: Find A Grave; photos added by Researching Oct 2018)

(src: Find A Grave; photos added by

Chrystal Goodrum May 2021)

King, Ruth Claradel

NO

04 Aug 1917

05 Feb 1919

 

Ruth Claradel King, d/o Albert Franklin & Ida May (Cole) King. [DeathCert] [King_Henry_Sarah] [obit not found]

 

Original Survey:

 

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