Alexander Davis Gravesite, Basham Rd (SR 738), Pilot, Montgomery Co., VA.

about .5 mile on the Montgomery county side of border with Floyd County.

37.0285780, -80.3491220

Last visited by Tracy C. Dec 2021

 

Google Maps using coordinates 37.0285780, -80.3491220

Cemetery image

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Dec 2021)

Original Source: Tracy C. found this cemetery Dec 2021.

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: Alexander Davis Cemetery, Basham Rd, Basham, Montgomery Co., VA.

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: No evidence of any other burials.

Photo

NAME

BIRTH

DEATH

MARKER NOTES

ANNOTATIONS

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Dec 2021)

Davis, Alexander W.

26 Dec 1872

29 Jul 1905

 

Alexander W. Davis, Rev., s/o DeWitt & Nellie (unknown) Davis. [1905 VA Death Records not available] [obit not found] [no file]

m. 1896 Floyd

Calla Ethel Basham, 1861-1948, d/o Ellis L. & 1st wife Caroline D. (Graham) Basham. [Indiana Death Cert] [Basham_EllisL_2wives]

 

Calla & Alexander had 4 children with only 1 surviving childhood: Callie Ethel Whitfield Davis, 1896-1922, m. Clifford Clyde Nunn Sr.

 

The Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Indiana · Saturday, May 01, 1948

 

 

 

Original Survey: None that we are aware of.