Pleasant Cole Cemetery, off Coles Knob Road on Stonewall Road NE, Pilot, Floyd Co., VA. Cemetery behind 1st  house on left, back in the woods. Good walk from road.

N 36.5425  W 80.25568  ELEVATION: 2796ft

Google Maps using above coordinates – NOT VERIFIED

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Crystal Goodrum May 2021)

Original Source: Documented by Genevieve Starkey and Judy Blackwell (no date noted)

OR Submitted by Janice Smyth to Barb Stanley’s original Floyd Co., VA News List site Located by knocking on doors & asking directions.

Find A Grave Name: Cole aka Pleasant Cole Cemetery, Pilot, Floyd Co., VA.

Left from Rt 612 on Rt 608. Cemetery is behind Tyree home, Rt 1, Box 285, Pilot, Floyd, VA. On a hill, overgrown and hard to find.

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: Possible burial site of Dr. John Lewis Harvey, b. Apr 4, 1886, d. Jun 27, 1939, s/o Robert Owen & Delilah Esther A. "Lila" Lancaster) Harvey. Married Elizabeth “Bessie” Coles. [DeathCert]

Photo

NAME

Original

survey

BIRTH

DEATH

MARKER NOTES

ANNOTATIONS

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Cole, Meridith L.

yes

10 Feb 1869

30 Mar 1884

 

Meredith Luther Cole, s/o Pleasant & Sarah Jane (Lawrence) Cole. [1884 Death Register] [Cole_Bird]

(src: Find A Grave; photos added by Chrystal Goodrum May 2021)

Cole, Pleasant

yes

4 June 1842

7 Dec 1933

 

Pleasant Cole, s/o Bird & 2nd wife Sarah Elizabeth (Underwood) Cole; m. Sarah Jane Lawrence 1868 Floyd. [DeathCert] [Cole_Bird]

m. 1868 Floyd

nee Sarah Jane Lawrence, d/o William & Sarah (Booth) Lawrence. [Lawrence_William_Sarah]

(src: Find A Grave; photos added by Chrystal Goodrum May 2021)

Cole, Sarah J.

yes

14 Jul 1850

19 Apr 1933

 

nee Sarah Jane Lawrence, d/o William & Sarah (Booth) Lawrence. [DeathCert] [Lawrence_William_Sarah]

m.

Pleasant Cole, s/o Bird & 2nd wife Sarah Elizabeth (Underwood) Cole; m. Sarah Jane Lawrence 1868 Floyd. [Cole_Bird]

(src: Find A Grave; photos added by

Chrystal Goodrum May 2021)

Cole, Tannie Gay

yes

6 Nov 1872

9 Mar 1950

 

Tannie Gay Cole, d/o Pleasant & Sarah Jane (Lawrence) Cole. [DeathCert] [Cole_Bird]

(src: Find A Grave; photos added by Researching Oct 2018)

(src: Find A Grave; photos added by

Chrystal Goodrum May 2021)

King, Ruth Claradel

NO

04 Aug 1917

05 Feb 1919

 

Ruth Claradel King, d/o Albert Franklin & Ida May (Cole) King. [DeathCert] [King_Henry_Sarah]

 

Original Survey:

 

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