Huff – Helms Family Cemetery, in a pasture along Black Ridge SW (SR 726), Floyd Co., VA.

36.81608, -80.40239

Last visited & photographed by Brushbeater Feb 2021

Google Maps using coordinates 36.81608, -80.40239

src: Find A Grave; photo added by Brushbeater Feb 2021 - “This small cemetery is overgrown with brambles and other brush. It has two headstones, three field stone markers and a more recent granite stone that identifies the children beneath the field stones.”

src: Find A Grave; photo added by Brushbeater Feb 2021

Original Source: see original survey at end

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: Helms Family Cemetery, Black Ridge Road SW (Rt. 726) Floyd, Floyd County, VA

Annotations – added by Barb Camery Reininger

Annotations in Red – correction to original text by Barb Camery Reininger

+ indicates on same tombstone

& indicates a relationship

Notes:

Photo	NAME	Original survey	BIRTH	DEATH	MARKER NOTES	ANNOTATIONS
Marker not found but was noted in original survey	Conner, Marie	yes	17 Sep 1909	17 Mar 1911		probable do Nannie Marie Conner, d/o Joseph Green & Lydia Ellen(Helms) Conner. [Floyd Co., VA Death Records not available for 1911]
	Helms, Joseph	yes	30 Sep 1837	15 Jan 1909		Joseph Helms, s/o Thomas & Mary (Weddle) Helms. [Floyd Co., VA Death Records not available for 1909] [Helms_Thomas_Mary] m. 1856 Floyd nee Melissa Ann Earles, d/o Susannah Earles. [Death Cert] Malicia Ann d/o Milton Earls & Susan Sutphin per death record) [Earles_Rebecca]
	Helms, Melissa	yes	24 Ma 1841	24 Feb 1924		nee Melissa Ann Earles, d/o Susannah Earles. [Death Cert] Malicia Ann d/o Milton Earls & Susan Sutphin per death record) [Earles_Rebecca] m. 1856 Floyd Joseph Helms, s/o Thomas & Mary (Weddle) Helms. [Floyd Co., VA Death Records not available for 1909] [Helms_Thomas_Mary]
	Huff, Infant Daughter Huff, Infant Daughter Huff, Infant Son	yes yes yes	29 Apr 1909 28 Nov 1912 07 Jul 1925		Inf. Children of Mr. & Mrs. Walter Huff	Infant children of Walter Frank & Nannie Viola (Helms) Huff. [Huff_George_Mary] [Floyd Co., VA Death Records not available for 1909] [1912 Death Cert] [Death Cert – can’t find]

Original Survey: Cemeteries Floyd (Montgomery) County, VA Burks Fork District Volume II Compiled by Phyllis Goad Phillips And Genevieve Cochran Starkey. 103 of 109 Cemeteries, pg 104. Added with permission of Genevieve Cochran Starkey May 2021.

103. Huff/Helms – in a pasture along Black Ridge off SR 726, Floyd Co., VA.

Pg 104

Infant children of Mr. & Mrs. Walter Huff

Daughter b. 4-29-1909

Daughter b. 11-28-1912

Son b. 7-7-1925

Helms, Joseph [Helms_Thomas_Mary]

b. 9-30-1837, d. 1-15-1909

&

Helms, Melissa (nee Earles)

b. 5-24-1841, d. 2-24-1924

Conner, Marie

b. 9-17-1909, d. 3-17-1911