Little Hope Cemetery – Roanoke/Montgomery County Line

Original Source: Submitted by Edgar L. Vest to Barb Stanley’s original Floyd Co., VA News List site as “Cove Road Cemetery”.

Find A Grave Name: Little Hope Cemetery, Cove Hollow Road (Rt 603), Elliston, Montgomery Co., VA.

Find A Grave Directions: Note that although this cemetery’s mailing address/ZIP code is Elliston which is in Montgomery County; the cemetery is about 1500 feet east of the Roanoke County/Montgomery County line.

Annotations in Blue – 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

 

Many graves not marked or unreadable Some field stones may have been used as Markers.

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Lawrence, William B

b. 01-16-1843, d. d.06-07-1925

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Lawrence Sarah A.
b. 02-19-1848, d. 06-27-1927

s/o William & Sarah (Booth) Lawrence.

Nee Sarah Sarah Adelaide or Attaway Richards, d/o John & Martha (Harris) Richards.

m. 1865 Floyd

[Lawrence_William_Sarah]

[Richards_John_Martha]

Maxey, James C.

b. 03-8-1874, d. 02-9-1961

+

Maxey, Luvenia M.

b. 03-4-1874, d. 02-25-1955

 

 

Muncy, Vera Ellen
b. 05-11-1922, d. 05-11-1922

 

 

Muncy, Harvey C.
b. 08-04-1897, d. 06-08-1922

 

 

McDaniel, Edna Lee

11-10-1933

1 date

 

 

McDaniel, Ira Clifton
b. 05-01-1902, d. 05-23-1966

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McDaniel, Delphia C.
b. 05-21-1906, 02-04-2002

 

 

McDaniel, Hugh Carlton

Son of Ira and Delphia

b.09-25-1926, d.01-26-1926

 

 

Newcomb, Betty Lou McDaniel
b.04-26-1929, d. 12-19-1993

 

 

Cochran, Ivan
b. 10-25-1936, d.10-29-1936

 

 

Cochran, Dorsey W.
b. 04-30-1904, d. 12-20-1977

+
Cochran, Pauline F.
b. 06-12-1915, d. 04-26-2004

 

 

Adams, Clifton E.
Virginia PVT. 480 Armd. Inf. Regt.
06-19-1943

One date

 

 

Cochran, Samuel V.
b. 06-24-1858, d. 02-20-1922

&

Cochran, Sara Compton
b. 10-18-1874, d. 03-18-1948

 

 

Cochran, Carson Ivel

b. 09-02-1908, d. 11-09-1919

 

 

Hibbitts, Zarah Pauline

Dau of J B & H M Hibbits

b. 03-25-1916, d.09-__-1918

 

 

Hibbits, Samuel

b. Aug 23, ___, d. Feb 28, ___

 

 

Hibbitts, John B.
b.09-25-1889, d.01-28-1941

&
Hibbitts, Hattie May
b.11-04-1896, d. d.06-05-1985

 

 

Cochran, Nancy Ann
b.12-14-1844, d.11-15-1923

 

 

Bartley, Octavia
Wife of J. A. Bartley
b. 1880, d. 1920

 

 

Wade, Ervin S.
b. 04-11-1918, d. 06-16-1967

+
Wade, Laura L.
b. 02-01-1920, d. 03-01-2013

 

 

Blankenship, R. E. Jr

b. & d. 1973

Funeral Home Marker

 

 

Conner, Elva Mae

b. 1913, d. 1996

Funeral Home Marker

 

 

Melton, Daniel Wyatt
b. 06-02-1889, d. 05-15-1970
+
Melton, Rebecca C.
b. 06-25-1893, d. 10-23-1976

 

 

Melton, Mary Elizabeth

Sister

b.02-08-1925, d. 10-03-1945

 

 

Lephew, Juanita
b. 1935, d. 1943

 

 

Lephew,, Wayne

1938

One date

 

 

Melton, Frank J.

b. 09-21-1935, d. 03-19-2010

+

Melton,  Francis M.
b. 09-28-1943, d.06-03-1987

 

 

Lephew, Marvin Lee

b. 1914, d. 1997

Funeral Home Marker

&

Lephew, Cora Jane

b. 1918, d. 2002

Funeral Home Marker

 

 

Lephew, Annie Marie

b. 1969, d. 1995

Funeral Home Marker

 

 

Lane, Roy M.

b. 1945, d. 1984

Funeral Home Marker

 

 

Jessee, B. V. Elder

b. 03-21-1854, d. 11-18-1937

+

Jessee, Nancy C.

b. 01-19-1855, d. 05-04-1931

 

 

Jessee, Vivian Ruth
b. 12-27-1917, d. 01-07-1918

 

 

Parrish, Earl J.
SP4 US Army - Vietnam
b. 1942, d. 1987

 

 

Edwards, Johnson E.
b. 02-07-1913, d. 02-21-1979
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Edwards, Velma L.
b. 06-25-1927, d. 12-17-2015

 

 

Edwards, George R.

b. 07-20-1949, d. 09-10-1976

 

 

Edwards, James Riley
b. 05-02-1916, d. 07-22-1965

 

 

Edwards, J. Emmet
b. 04-11-1869, d. 08-02-1931

&

Edwards, Martha Ann
Wife of Jasper Emmet Edwards
b. 1887, d. 1964

 

 

Carrico, T. E.
b. 07-03-1876, d. 07-03-1928

 

 

Terry, Thomas G.
b. 04-27-1876, d. 06-19-1949

 

 

Terry, Commodore W.
b. 06-10-1915, d. 03-19-1966

 

 

Terry, Earlow G.

b. 07-15-1910, d. 10-13-1965

 

 

Terry, Mary P.

06-13-1915

Only one date

 

 

Altizer, Pauline Terry
b. 07-19-1923, d. 08-13-1969

3rd wife of Howard Lester Altizer, 1908-1997, s/o Joseph Russell & Cora Leva (unknown) Altizer.

 

Terry, Harold
b. 12-28-1910, d. 09-09-1935

 

 

Witt, William Larry
b. 11-15-1942, d. 07-24-1943

 

 

Witt, Bettie Marie

b. 1937, d. 09-17-1951

d/o Oliver & Fannie Edwards Witt. COD: crushed chest – car accident Rt 11, Roanoke Co., VA

 

Witt, Fannie Bell

b. 04-27-1918, d. 12-13-1952

Divorced at time of death from pneumonia.

 

Sisters

Hunter, Rosie E.
b. 10-09-1914, d. 05-26-1978

&
Grissom, Bessie E.
b. 10-13-1908, d. 01-31-1985

&
Swain, Sarah E.
b. 01-06-1911, d. 05-10-1985

 

 

Swain, Dillard Oscar
US Army WWI
b. 1895, d. 1982

 

 

Martin, Lizena E.
b. 1865, d. 1935

 

 

Martin, Marson C.
b. 12-21-1868, d. 12-04-1951

&

Martin, Eliza Wife of M.C. Martin

b. 09-17-1868, d. 1-14-1927

Marson Celdon Martin, b. Floyd Co., VA, s/o Samuel William & Eveline (Cole) Martin.

Married Eliza Sowers, 1868-1927 d/o Joseph Dawson & Julia Ann (Slusher) Sowers.

 

[Martin_William_2wives]

[Sowers_JohnH_Catherine]

Melton, Daniel Ruben
b. 03-25-1923, d. 12-22-1988

 

 

Muncy, Harvey C.
b. 08-04-1897, d. 06-08-1922

 

 

Muncy, Vera Helen
b. & d. 05-11-1922

 

 

Burris, George Martin

b. 02-19-1872, d. 10-15-1955

+

Burris, Missouri Martin

b. 09-30-1871, d. 02-19-1951

His middle name was Martin & she was a Martin, d/o Daniel D. & Mary Eliza Ann (Craghead) Martin.

 

Burris, Bess M.

b. 03-30-1899, d. 11-21-1998

 

 

Burris, Susan P.

b. 10-09-1906, d. 08-05-1983

 

 

Bradford, Donnie Ray
Son of Carl and Sarah Bradford
02-03-1949

Only one date

 

 

Burris, Infant

Son of Charles and Nettie L.  Burris
12-02-1935

only one date

 

 

Dillard, Oscar  S.
US Army WWI
b.__-__-1895, d.__-__-1982

Not noted in FAG as being buried in this cemetery. Search revealed nothing.