Fleming Cole Family Cemetery, on Goff Road NE about .75 miles south of its intersection with Daniels Run Rd NE, Floyd Co., VA.

2021 Location Update: Located on Goff Rd NE about .75 miles south of its intersection with Daniels Run Rd NE. It is at the end of a long dirt road and fenced. It is visible from Google Earth.

Little River District

Last updated by Tracy C. May 2021

N 37° 01.660’ W 80° 14.956’

37.0276321, -80.2493207

Google Maps using coordinates 37.0276321, -80.2493207

Google Maps using coordinates 37.0276321, -80.2493207

(Find A Grave; photo added by Tracy C. May 2021)

(Find A Grave; photo added by Tracy C. May 2021)

Original Source: Judy G. Blackwell & Genevieve C. Starkey on 12 December 2007. Revisited, documented and photographed by Tracy Crosier May 2021.

Published Books:

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: Cole Family Cemetery,

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

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Cole, Abigail

yes

14 Sep 1833

09 Dec 1924

nee Abigail Vest d/o Charles & 1st wife Martha (Iddings) Vest. [DeathCert] [obit - can’t find] [Vest_Charles_2wives]

m. 1852 Floyd [FCVA1852_ColeVestConsent_056] [FCVA1852_ColeVestMar_057]

Fleming Cole, s/o Bird & 2nd wife Sarah Elizabeth (Underwood) Cole. [Obit - can’t find] [Cole_Bird]

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Cole, Claude R.

yes

08 Aug 1895

10 Jul 1903

aka Claude Rodney Cole, s/o Henry Valentine & Tempaline “Tempy” Tempa” (Lawrence) Cole. [1903 VA Death Cert – n/a] [Obit - can’t find] [Cole_Bird]

illegible

(Find A Grave; photo added by Tracy C. May 2021)

legible

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Cole, Fleming

yes

28 Jun 1828

14 May 1888

Fleming Cole, s/o Bird & 2nd wife Sarah Elizabeth (Underwood) Cole. [1888 Floyd County Death Register] [Obit - can’t find] [Cole_Bird]

m. 1852 Floyd [FCVA1852_ColeVestConsent_056] [FCVA1852_ColeVestMar_057]

nee Abigail Vest d/o Charles & 1st wife Martha (Iddings) Vest. [DeathCert] [Obit - can’t find] [Vest_Charles_2wives]

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Cole, Elder H. Valentine

+

Cole, Tempy Lawrence

yes

yes

07 Jun 1853

13 Mar 1858

02 Dec 1935

27 Mar 1937

w/o Henry Valentine Cole

aka Henry Valentine Cole s/o Fleming & Abigail (Vest) Cole. [Death Cert] [Cole_Bird]

m. 1877 Floyd [FCVA1877_0080]

nee Tempaline “Tempy” ‘Tempa” “Tenty” Lawrence, d/o William & Sarah (Booth) Lawrence. [Death Cert] [Lawrence_William_Sarah]

The Roanoke Times Roanoke, Virginia · Saturday, December 14, 1935

The Roanoke Times Roanoke, Virginia · Sunday, March 28, 1937

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Cole, Schuyler W.

yes

08 Jan 1884

15 Nov 1942

aka Schuyler Wade Cole, s/o Henry Valentine & Tempaline “Tempy” Tempa” (Lawrence) Cole. [Death Cert - pa] [Cole_Bird]

m. 1908 Floyd [FCVA1908_0044]

nee Mary Doris Howery, 1881-1961, d/o Joseph Lewis & Orena Elizabeth "Rena" (Cannaday) Howery. [Death Cert – pa] [obit – can’t find] [Howery_Daniel_Mary]

The Mercury

Pottstown, Pennsylvania · Tuesday, November 17, 1942

“N.C. Death Certificate states he was (buried here) but I did not find a stone for him.”

Tracy C. May 2021

CANNOT VERIFY BURIAL IN THIS CEMETERY

Cole, Shirley Leon

NO

17 Jun 1887

02 Sep 1968

Marker not found

Shirley Leon Cole, s/o Henry Valentine & Tempy (Lawrence) Cole. [Death Cert – nc] [Cole_Bird]

m. 1915 Floyd

nee Annamilla “Anna” Dewese, 1894-1972, d/o Henry Cassell & 1^st wife Sarah Jane (Kelly) Dewese. [Death Cert] [Dewese_Larkin_2wives]

The Roanoke Times Roanoke, Virginia · Wednesday, September 04, 1968

The Roanoke Times Roanoke, Virginia · Tuesday, July 11, 1972

Original src: Janice Smyth to Barb Stanley. Date unknown

Marker not found May 2021

Death Certificate gives Poages Mill as burial place.

CANNOT VERIFY BURIAL IN THIS CEMETERY

Sutphin, Minnie Maybell

NO

19 May 1885

18 Jan 1930

nee Minnie Maybell Cole, d/o Henry Valentine & Tempaline “Tempy” Tempa” (Lawrence) Cole. [DeathCert] [Cole_Bird]

m. 1925 Floyd [FCVA1925_0005]

Charlies Sutphin, s/o Sidney Jasper & Delilah (McGrady) Sutphin. Charles 1^st m. 1907 Carroll, Chattie Alvis Quesenberry, 1890-1923, d/o Rufus & Eliza (Stanley) Quesenberry.

The Roanoke Times

Roanoke, Virginia · Monday, January 20, 1930

(added by Tracy C. May 2021)

Travis, Bura A. Cole

yes

26 Mar 1889

13 Oct 1918

Wife of W. F. Travis

nee Bura Alma Cole d/o Henry Valentine & Tempaline “Tempy” Tempa” (Lawrence) Cole. [Death Cert] [Obit - can’t find] [Cole_Bird]

m. License issued June 1915 Washington DC

William Frank Travis

1 daughter Alma Geraldine Travis, 1917-2019; m. Clarence Oren Poage.

Original Survey: Submitted to original Floyd Co., VA News List Rootsweb page 1^st maintained by Barb Stanley (1934-2006).