Walter S. Bishop Cemetery, on Copper Valley Rd, about a mile off Indian Valley Rd (SR 787), Floyd Co., VA

Copper Valley Rd, for the most part, isn't a thru-road. Some parts are not even dirt roads, but more pathways. Recommend 4wd if visiting. Appears only these two are buried here.

36.9900850-80.5099480

Last visited by Tracy C. Feb 2022.

(src: google maps using Tracy’s coordinates)

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Feb 2022)

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.

Find A Grave Name: Tracy entered this cemetery in to Find A Grave Feb 2022

Annotations – added May 2021 by Barb Camery Reininger

Annotations in Red – correction to original text by Barb Camery Reininger

+ indicates on same tombstone

& indicates a relationship

Notes:

Photo

NAME

Original survey

BIRTH

DEATH

MARKER NOTES

ANNOTATIONS

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Feb 2022)

Bishop, Delila R.

yes

07 Dec 1865

13 Apr 1920

45y 4m 5d

nee Delilah Rebecca "Lila" Dulaney, d/o Wyatt & Martha A. (Bishop) Dulaney. [Death Cert] [Dulaney_Richard_Miram]

m. 1885 Floyd

aka Walter Staples Bishop, s/o Stephen & 2nd wife Lucinda (Dulaney) Bishop. [Death Cert -1] [Death Cert – 2] [Bishop_Jacob_Katherine_mcva]

 

Marker not found at time cemetery originally surveyed or in Feb 2022 – Looks like he has a marker in the Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Christiansburg, Montgomery Co., VA.

Bishop, Sid

yes

no date

no date

Son of Walter & Delila Bishop

aka Joseph Sidney Bishop, 1908-1970, s/o Walter Staples & Delilah Rebecca "Lila" “Dulaney) Bishop. [Death Cert]

m. 1930 Floyd

nee Mary Jane Harris, d/o George E. & 2nd wife Virginia Jane "Jennie" (Craig nee unknown) Harris.

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Feb 2022)

Bishop, Walter S.

yes

15 Feb 1860

22 Jan 1942

81y 11m 7d

aka Walter Staples Bishop, s/o Stephen & 2nd wife Lucinda (Dulaney) Bishop. [Death Cert -1] [Death Cert – 2] [Bishop_Jacob_Katherine_mcva]

m. 1885 Floyd

nee Delilah Rebecca "Lila" Dulaney, d/o Wyatt & Martha A. (Bishop) Dulaney. [Death Cert] [Dulaney_Richard_Miram]

 

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 Cemetery, on Willard Cox farm SR 787, Copper Valley, Floyd Co., VA

Pg 28

 

Bishop, Walter S.

b. 2-15-1860, d. 1-22-1942

81y 11m 7d

 

Bishop, Delila R.

b. 12-7-1865, d. 4-13-1920

45y 4m 5d

 

Bishop, Sid

Son of Walter & Delila

(no dates)