Lester/Whitlock Cemetery - 597 Gallimore Lane NE, Floyd VA 24091.

36° 57.500’ N 80° 21.453’ W

597 Gallimore Lane NE, Floyd VA 24091.

36° 57.500’ N 80° 21.453’ W

Original Source: On Jan. 31, 1990, Archie Sr. and I visited a Cemetery off Route 8 going south and turn left on to Route 810 for a half-mile. The cemetery was on the left of the road. The Cemetery is a disgrace. It is mostly destroyed.
    Archie Sr. and Phyllis Sumner

Find A Grave Name: Lester Cemetery, Easter Creek Road, Floyd Co., VA

Annotations – added 2021 by Barb Camery Reininger unless otherwise stated

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

+ indicates on same tombstone

& indicates a relationship

w/o Wife of

d/o Daughter of

s/o Son of

c/o Child of

Notes:

IMAGES from Find A Grave	NAME X = Original Survey	BIRTH	DEATH	MARKER NOTES	ANNOTATION:
no photo	X Big Stone Base (no headstone)
no photo	X Eller, Lyda May	24 Nov 1889	07 Jan 1891		[1891 Floyd Death Register] I can’t see her death recorded in this death register.
no photo	X Eller, Nancy	11 Jul 1824	05 Apr 1904	w/o George Eller
no photo	X Fulcher, Minnie	10 Oct 1874	24 Feb 1880	no photo	[1880 Floyd Death Register] I can’t see her death recorded in this death register.
no photo	X Lester, Lucrerin E.	05 Jan 1840	09 Nov 1853	13y 9m 8d	[1853 Floyd Death Register] may be same as Lucretia E. Lester noted in this death register.
no photo	X Lester, William	18 Jun 1818	01 Mar 1890		Aka William Terry Lester, s/o John (II) & Mary Ann (Terry) Lester. [1890 Floyd Death Register] I can’t see his death recorded in this death register. [Lester_WilliamT_MaryA]
I know she was noted in original 1990 survey as being buried in this cemetery, but her stone was found Feb 2022 in the Laurel Branch cemetery by Tracy C.	X Reed, Infant		19 Jan 1919	s/o Tas and Icie Reed	s/o Tas Lee & Icie Pearl (Reed) Reed. [Death Cert – can’t find] [Reed_Emory_Miriam]
Original Stone no photo	X Whitlock, J. A. & X Whitlock, Permelia R.	05 Mar 1858 03 Jan 1861	19 Dec 1928 24 Oct 1915	w/o J. A. Whitlock	aka Joseph Albert Whitlock, s/o Asa Tate & Elizabeth Belle Anne (Sumpter) Whitlock. [Death Cert] [Whitlock_Asa_Elizabeth] nee Permelia Rosabelle "Jennie" Lester, d/o William Terry & Mary Amanda (Simmons) Lester. [Death Cert] [Lester_WilliamT_MaryA]
1949 Stone no photo	X Whitlock, Joseph Albert + X Whitlock, Jennie Lester	1858 1861	1928 1915	w/o J. A. Whitlock	Stone erected 1949
I think these may be in the Lester Cemetery on Easter Creek Road (src: Find A Grave; photo added by dkosnett May 2013)	Kat Fulcher has above plus those below:				Described as from 1960 & 1990 readings. Jul 9, 2021 email her to ask who did 1960 reading but email bounced back.
	Altizer, Elizabeth	28 Mar 1852	26 Jun 1876		nee Elizabeth Ann Shelor, d/o George Taylor & Virginia Ann (Lester) Shelor; m Joseph Marion Altizer.
	Hatcher, Bernard	20 Mar 1878	1881
	Lester, Hiley	10 Oct 1820	11 Jul 1884
	Lester, John (II) & Lester, Mary Ann	(1775)	21 Sep 1851	Age 75 w/o John Lester (II)	Aka John Lester II, father of John Lester I & William T. Lester. m. 1802 Montgomery nee Mary Ann “Polly”, d/o Josiah Terry.
	Lester, John (III) & Lester, Mary	01 Nov 1808	1852	44y 5m w/o John Lester (III)	s/o John Lester II, father of Virginia Lester Shelor Fulcher, Matilda Lester Pugh and Lucretia Lester. [Lester_JohnIII_Mary] d/o James & Elizabeth Ava (Sigler) Gardner.
	Lester, Mary	20 Feb 1824	11 Dec 1887	w/o William T. Lester	nee Mary Amanda Simmons, d/o Thomas W. & Delila (Booth) Simmons. [Simmons_Thomas_Delila]
	Pugh, Matilda E.	14 Oct 1848	15 Jul 1875	w/o Tazewell Pugh	nee Matilda E. Lester, d/o John (III) & Mary G. (Gardner) Lester. [Lester_JohnIII_Mary]
	Shelor, George Taylor & Fulcher, Virginia Ann	12 Aug 1822 1836	23 Jul 1862 1900		s/o Jacob & Anna (Tuggle) Shelor. [Shelor_Jacob_Anna] I found a photo of his stone & it’s reportedly in a Lester cemetery on Easter Creek Road, Floyd Co., VA. 1^st husband of Virginia Ann Lester. May be just his headstone – moved from another cemetery when it was destroyed - died of measles during Civil War nee Virginia Ann Lester, d/o John (III) & Mary G. (Gardner) Lester. [Lester_JohnIII_Mary]; m2 husband, Madison P. Fulcher)

Original Survey:

On Jan. 31, 1990, Archie Sr. and I visited a Cemetery off Route 8 going south and turn left on to Route 810 for a half-mile. The cemetery was on the left of the road. The Cemetery is a disgrace. It is mostly destroyed.
    Archie Sr. and Phyllis Sumner

Called Lester Cemetery in FAG – Photos like the cemetery was being cared for in 2011 & 2013 – May be more memorials in FAG than original finding but didn’t look closely
    J. A. Whitlock                    Permelia R. Whitlock
    Born 3-5-1858                    Wife of J. A. Whitlock
    Died  12-19-1928             Born  1-3-1861
                                                Died  10-24-1915
    Joseph Albert Whitlock                        Jennie Lester Whitlock
    Born 1858                                            Wife of Joseph Albert Whitlock
    Died 1928                                              Born  1861
                                                                  Died 1915
                Stone Erected 1949

    Minnie Fulcher  --- Born 10-10-1874  ---- Died  2-24-1880
    Lyda May Eller ---- Born  11-24-1889 ---- Died -1-7-1891
    Nancy Eller--wife of George Eller  Born--7-11-1824 --- Died 4-5-1904
    Lucrerin E. Lester --- Born 1-5-1840 -Died  11-9-1853 --13 years 9 months and 8 days
    William Lester  --- Born 6-18-1818----Died  3-1-1890
    Infant son of Tas and Icie Reed ---  Born  1-19-1919
    Big Stone Base (no headstone)