Walter S. Bishop Cemetery, 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.

google maps using coordinates 36.9900850, -80.5099480

src: FAG; 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.

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

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:

Photo	NAME	Original survey	BIRTH	DEATH	MARKER NOTES	ANNOTATIONS
src: FAG; 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] [obit – can’t find] [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]
Noted in original survey but without marker; Death Cert & Obit suggest he is buried in Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Christiansburg, Montgomery Co., VA. Indeed, marker found & photgraphed by Hokiegirl247 Sep 2009.	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. & 2^nd wife Virginia Jane "Jennie" (Craig nee unknown) Harris. The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Virginia · Monday, June 29, 1970
src: FAG; 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] The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Virginia · Saturday, January 24, 1942

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 stone)