Bishop Family Cemetery, Indian Valley Rd NW (SR 787), Floyd Co., VA.

on Elbert E. Phillips farm in 1975

Need GPS

General vacinity using directions from Nancy Mayo Bishop FAG

src: FAG, photo added by Nancy Mayo Bishop May 2020

Original Source: 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.

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 1^st 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 1^st maintained by Barb Stanley (1934-2006); compilers will be individually identified.

Find A Grave Name: Bishop Family Cemetery, Indian Valley Rd NW (SR 787), Floyd Co., VA.

No GPS information available

Cemetery ID: 2323951

Located just off Route 787, Indian Valley. This cemetery can't be seen from the roadway. It is very near the junction of Sawmill Hill Road and 787, on the opposite side of 787, up a short incline. The cemetery is in disrepair, and is overgrown. Several others are buried here, most of them from the same Bishop family.

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: “This cemetery has several graves that were not marked when copied in 1975, also it was in poor condition and needed the underbrush cleaned off.” Original surveyors.

Photo	NAME	Original survey	BIRTH	DEATH	MARKER NOTES	ANNOTATIONS
src: FAG, photo added by Nancy Mayo Bishop May 2020	Bishop, Elizabeth	yes	11 Jan 1843	26 Jul 1923		nee Elizabeth Altizer, d/o Elias Elkins & Cynthia (Ratcliffe) Altizer. [Death Cert] [obit – can’t find] [Altizer_Elias_Cynthia] m. 1866 Floyd Henry Wesley Bishop, s/o Henry & 1st wife Nancy (Quesenberry) Bishop. [Death Cert] [obit – can’t find] [Bishop_Henry_2wives] Per ole Paul of the Floyd Co., VA Mailing List a hog scared her horse.
src: FAG, photo added by Marc Bishop Mar 2017	Bishop, Henry Wesley	yes	25 Apr 1842	26 May 1926		Henry Wesley Bishop, s/o Henry & 1st wife Nancy (Quesenberry) Bishop. [Death Cert] [obit – can’t find] [Bishop_Henry_2wives] 1^st m. 1866 Floyd, nee Elizabeth Altizer, d/o Elias Elkins & Cynthia (Ratcliffe) Altizer. [Death Cert] [obit – can’t find] [Altizer_Elias_Cynthia] 2^nd m. 1925 Floyd, Miriam Flinchum nee Harris, d/o Lewis H. & Letitia (Lester) Harris. [Death Cert] [Harris_Thomas_Elizabeth] Miram 1^st m. 1891 Pulaski, James Henry Flinchum, s/o Jonathan & Mary (Shackelford) Flinchum of NC. [no file] Miriam m. 3^rd 1930 Radford, William Thomas Higgs, 185-1934, b. Carroll, s/o Alex & Elizabeth (Jennings) Higgs. She’ll m. 4^th 1936 Floyd, William Henry Quesenberry, b. Carroll, 1872-1950, s/o Asa R. & Frances Jane (Hollandsworth) Quesenberry.
src: FAG, photo added by Marc Bishop Mar 2017	Bishop, Joseph C.	yes	04 Feb 1833	18 Feb 1920		Joseph Cullum Bishop, s/o Henry & 1st wife Nancy (Quesenberry) Bishop. [Death Cert] [Bishop_Henry_2wives] 1^st m. 1861 Floyd, Ruth Sumpter, 1840-1867, d/o Edmund Jr & Delilah (Eskew? Seamos/Searug?) Sumpter. [1867 Floyd Co., VA Death Register] [Sumpter_Edmond2] 2^nd m. 1868 Floyd, nee Lutisha Adline “Tish” Simpkins, 1851-1929, Baxter & Lucinda (Showalter) Simpkins of Montgomery Co., VA. [Death Cert] Burial Bishop Chapel. [obit – can’t find] [no file] The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Virginia · Tuesday, February 24, 1920
Marker not found but was noted in original survey	Duncan, Nancy H.	yes	20 Dec 1879	30 Dec 1879	Dau. of A. J. & R. Duncan	Nancy H. Duncan, d/o can’t id. Death not recorded 1879 Floyd Co., VA Death Register (it is missing districts) or 1880 Mortality Schedule.

Original Survey: 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.

Bishop Family Cemetery, Intersection of SR 752 & 787, Copper Valley, Floyd Co., VA. (this compiler can’t see where these 2 roads intersect so using FAG location)

Pg 27

(several unmarked graves)

Bishop, Joseph C.

b. 2-4-1833, d. 2-18-1920

Bishop, Henry Wesley

b. 4-25-1842, d. 5-26-1926

&

Bishop, Elizabeth (nee Altizer)

b. 1-11-1843, d. 7-26-1923

Duncan, Nancy H.

b. 12-20-1879, d. 12-30-1879

Dau of A.J. & R. Duncan