Dennis Family Cemetery, Shady Grove Road, Willis, VA 24380

Coordinates: 36.85850, -80.54670

Floyd County, VA GIS Parcel ID 60-82A

Owner Name CEMETERY

Acres 0.09

Last visited & photodocumented by Tracy C. Feb 2025

Google Maps using coordinates: 36.85850, -80.54670

House # in foreground: 688 Shady Grove Rd NW, Willis, VA 24380

src: FAG; photo added by Tracy C. Feb 2025 with this note”

Many field stone markers. Only one marked.

Floyd County, VA GIS Parcel ID 60-82A

Owner Name CEMETERY

Acres 0.09

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 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: same

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: Many field stone markers. Only one marked.

Photos	NAME	Original Survey	BIRTH	DEATH	MARKER NOTES	ANNOTATIONS
src: FAG; photo added by Tracy C. Feb 2025	Dennis, Sydney	yes	20 May 1832	1895		nee Sydney unknown, d/o unknown. m. b/4 1870 can’t find Sparrel Dennis, s/o unknown. Can’t find much on this couple. Any help is more than welcome! Email to Barb Camery Reininger BootsWI@gmail.com 1870 Floyd Co., VA census 1880 Floyd Co., VA census I believe Monroe Dennis, b. abt 1846, may have been a s/o York & Rachel (unknown) Dennis. He m. Letitia Thompson 1873 Floyd,d/o Leonard & Christina. Richmond Times-Dispatch Richmond, Virginia · Saturday, December 01, 1906

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.

Sparle Cemetery (Black Cemetery) Alvin Turman Farm, Intersection of T Rds 624 & 760, Willis, FCVA

Pg 69

There were four rows and approximately eighteen graves most of which were marked by native stones.

Dennis, Sydney

b. 5-22-1832,d. 7-5-1895