PRESSLEY CEMETERY - Dickenson County, VA

This file was contributed by Zen Sutherland. Please e-mail Zen at zens@mindspring.com if you have any questions or comments.

MAJOR SURNAME LIST
BALL, BOGGS, COUNTS, DAVIS, ELKINS, HARLOW, KISER, LOTHERY, NEECE, PUCKETT, RAMSEY, ROSE, SILCOX, STOUT, SUTHERLAND, TURNER, VANOVER, WILSON

LATITUDE/LONGITUDE
370616N 0822102W (Per USGS Quad Map: NORA, VA)

DIRECTIONS
From Stratton, VA take Route 652 up Crooked Branch Hollow about 1.3 mile to Liza Gap, take the left leading upwards towards Sutherland Ridge. This road has been improved since the USGS map for NORA was last updated. Follow this road for about 3/4 mile to Presley Cemetery on right.

FIELD NOTES: 11/23/98
The Presley cemetery is large, well kept and has it's own covered "mini-chapel" for outside services. It is right by the road and marked with a large sign. The survey began in the SE corner.

FORMAT
Note: Items in parenthesis are the best guess of the researcher. Items in brackets are my comments. A double stone is two people on one stone - usually husband and wife unless otherwise indicated. "Similar stone" indicates that the stones were of similar design perhaps helping to identify wives and husbands.

LISTING OF GRAVE MARKERS

• Timothy Austin Neece, Jan 19 1996 - Mar 25 1996
• Carmel Eugene Ball, Oct 8, 1948 - Jun 21 1997
  SSGT US Air Force, Vietnam
• Wilma J. Sutherland [Reservation plaque]
• Fred Parmer Sutherland, 1900 - 1998
• Myrtle E. Sutherland [Reservation plaque]
• Parcus H. Sutherland, Mar 12 1922 - Mar 20 1996
  S1 US Navy, WWII
• [double stone] Bill Vanover, 1904 -1988
  Gladys, 1904 - 1971
  Married Nov 17, 1937
• Leafy Elkins, 1922 - 1990
• Edna Elkins, Jun 20, 1890 - Feb 4, 1977
• Tivis R. Counts, Feb 27, 1889 - July 30, 1989
  [Son of William "Billy" Lewis & Nancy Rose Counts]
• Emma E. Counts, born Nov 2, 1902
  [Actually Emma Amburgey d. of Elijah & Catherine Phillips Amburgey, 2nd wife of Tivis R. Counts]
• Lampros Calo, May 15, 1889 - Mar 2, 1970
  Greece, PVT Co I, World War I
• James C. Silcox "Butch", Aug 6, 1952 - Jan 1 1983
• Pauline Silcox, May 1 1927 - May 25, 1981
• Ernest G. Silcox, June 7, 1920 - Sep 27 1989
  PFC US Army, WWII
• Louisa L. Silcox, Jan 27, 1897 - Feb 11 1972
• David T. Silcox, Apr 26, 1893 - Apr 26 - 1957
  Virginia, VT CO A., 109 Inf 28 Division, WWI
• Roy Clay Ramsey, 1952 - 1952
• Ronald Ramsey, Oct 1, 1978 - Oct 1, 1978
• Mother, Ruby Ruth Ramsey, Oct 31, 1930 - Apr 29, 1961
• [double stone] Elihu C. Kiser, Mar 12 1900 - Dec 16, 1960
  Elsie B. Kiser, Dec 12, 1906
• [double stone] Rufus Silcox, 1890 - 1972
  Lillie Silcox, 1895 - 1984
• Roy Allen Silcox, Aug 30, 1928 - Jan 16, 1969
  Virginia QM 1 US Navy WWII/Korea [Military plaque has death date as Jan 17, 1969]
• James Swin Rose, Feb 6, 1905 - Apr 26, 1980
• Jasper Lee Rose, Apr 21, 1924 - Oct 4, 1970
  Virginia CPL 397 Bomb Grp AAF, WWII
• Fernada London Rose, May 28, 1926 - Jan 13, 1969
• Ruth R. Wilson, 1930 - 1958
• Tommy B. Ramsey, 1932 - 1952
• Lawson Ramsey, 1908 - 1932 [Marker includes a photo-tile]
• Goldie M. Harlow, 1919 - 1984
• [double stone] William H. Harlow, Aug 15, 1900 - Sep 17, 1986
  Princie G. Harlow, July 28, 1889 - Dec 18, 1997
  married Aug 6, 1919
  [William H. Harlow is William Homer Harlow, son of Oscar Chalkley Harlow and Julia Silcox Harlow. Princie G. is Princie Gertrude Counts dau of Elijah Shelby Counts and Clenza Prutina Edwards Counts]
• Heather Rene Davis, Jun 3, 1989
• [double stone - indicates mother and son] Lucille Swafford, 1925 - 1997
  Robert W. Mullins, 1951 -
• [double stone] Gary Dean Coleman, 1938 - ,Father
  Janice Gaynell Coleman, 1942 - 1991
• Sophie Jane Mapes, Feb 22, 1909 - Aug 9, 1989
• Mary M. Sutherland, Mar 13, 1884 - Apr 12, 1956
• Martha A. Pruitt, Apr 27, 1892 - May 27, 1964
• [double stone] Douglas W. Ramsey 1910 -
  Sarah Ellen Ramsey, 1913 - 1994
• Ida Mae Ramsey, 1889 - 1963, Mother
  [similar stone]
• Simeon Clay Ramsey, 1879 - 1947
• Walter C. Ramsey, Jun 23, 1920 - Jul 31, 1994
  PVT, US Army Air Corps, WWII
• Nannie C. Sutherland, Feb 2 1891 - Dec 17, 1971
• [double stone] George H. Boggs, Dec 25, 1904 - Apr 12, 1973
  Donnie S. Boggs, Aug 22, 1904 - Feb 17, 1977
• [double stone] Burel Gay Boggs, Aug 10, 1926 - Jul 15, 1980
  Helen S. Boggs, Nov 15, 1949
  married. Dec 23, 1978
  [on back of stone reads:] "Gay, I'll love you forever, Helen"
• [double stone] Geter E. Lothery, Jul 16, 1918 - Nov 29, 1973
  Ruby A. Lothery, Sep 9, 1923 - Sep 11, 1982
• Jessy Malcum Lothery, Sep 17, 1977 - Sep 17, 1977
• [double stone] Rockford Sutherland, May 5, 1910 - Jan 22, 1998
  Bessie A. Sutherland, Nov 26, 1911 - Feb 8, 1972
• Jerry A. Sutherland, Apr, 12, 1953 [baby]
• Tara Lea Turner, Nov 30, 1971 [baby]
• Willie Buford Vest, 1908 - 1990
• Bessie Ann Vest, Dec 7, 1906 - Sep 15, 1987
• Susan Stout, Apr 25, 1881 - Jun 2, 1958
• Nell Stout, 1928 - 1933, daughter of Roy and Alice Stout
• Snoda Laura Sutherland, Mar 22, 1904 - Mar 18, 1890
  [similar stone]
• Simon 'Sim' Sutherland, Jun 15, 1895 - Jun 10, 1979
• Joshua D. Presley, husband of Eliza J. Presley, 1848 - Jan 3, 1882
  [This stone is at the highest point of the hill, the only Presley in the cemetery, and a flagpole is erected by his stone. He is Joshua Dickenson Presley, son of Ephraim Presley and Margaret Jane Colley Presley]
• Alexander J. 'Smack' Sutherland, Nov 14, 1886 - jan 31, 1975
  [son of William Floyd Sutherland and Didame Sutherland]
• Elbert Lee Davis, our son, 1929 - 1954
• Raymond Widener, Jan 13, 1910 - Oct 26, 1969
• [double stone] William Morgan Sutherland, Nov 29, 1890 - Oct 14, 1981
  Nannie E. Sutherland, May 19, 1896 - July 5, 1974
• [double stone] Elmer R. Sutherland, Jan 12, 1920 - May 24, 1996
  Delmer G. Sutherland, Jan 12, 1921 - Dec 10, 1986
• [double stone] Norris G. Sutherland, May 30, 1924 - Apr 6, 1983
  M. Irene Sutherland, Sep 18, 1926 -
• [double stone] Roosevelt Sutherland, Dec 20, 1911 - Apr 7, 1993
  Hilda P. Sutherland, Jan 5, 1916 - Jan 10, 1983
  [Roosevelt Sutherland most probably son of William Floyd Sutherland and Mary Hicks Sutherland]
• [double stone] Robert F. Stout, Oct 1, 1910 - May 13, 1985
  Vesta M. Stout, Jan 10, 1914 -
• Riley Lee Stout, Jun 7, 1934 - Dec 10, 1987
• Effie May Sutherland, Jun 16, 1896 - Dec 21, 1979
• Cap Eugene Sutherland, Apr 10, 1906 - Oct 2, 1982
  [Son of William Floyd Sutherland and Mary Hicks Sutherland]
• Georgie Alice Sutherland, Jan 4, 1912 - Dec 12, 1934
• Dixie Edwards, Aug 11, 1910 - Apr 12, 1981
• Ferrell David Puckett, Oct 14, 1922 - May 12, 1968
  Virginia SSMC2 USNR, WWII
• [double stone] Belle Puckett, 1889 - 1954
  Walter G. Puckett, 1885 - 1961
• [double stone] Alvie E. Puckett, 1914 - 1982
  Ethel T. Puckett, 1917 - 1989
• Eura Puckett, Sep 3, 1908 - Oct 3, 1909, child of Belle and Walter Puckett
• Randy L. Marshall, Oct 23, 1969 - Oct 8, 1978
• [double stone] Thomas E. Marshall, Jun 12, 1927 - May 12, 1989
  Prudy M. Marshall, Aug 29, 1926 -
• Jeffrey L. Marshall, Apr 2, 1963 - Nov 19, 1984
• [double stone] Stacy A. Viers, Nov 21, 1921 - Oct 16, 1995
  PFC US Army WWII, Purple Heart
  Thurlene Viers, Feb 28, 1928
• [double stone] Clifford C. Rasnick, Aug 2, 1917 - Apr 26, 1998
  Cpl US Army WWII
  America M. Rasnick, Apr 26, 1920 -
  married May 10, 1948

RESEARCHER NOTES:
I am interested in identifying more of the Sutherlands and relatives who are interred here as my family comes from the next ridge over and there's probably more than casual relationships involved. If you are familiar with any of these people (esp the late 1800's and early 1900's) please feel free to e-mail me.

PHOTOGRAPHS AVAILABLE
Some photographs were taken of the stones under the best light and angle possible, but it is almost always true that more information can be discerned from being there, especially because the pictures are stored in the 'lousy' compressed format of .JPG. Send your request to me at zens@mindspring.com, and give me 2 days to figure out which zip disk they're on or if I've even taken those pictures. There is no charge, just trying to help.

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