McNeil Family Cemetery, Griffith Creek Rd NE, Floyd Co., VA. From Daniel’s Run Rd, turn onto Lick Ridge Rd and then right onto Griffith Creek Rd.

37.05800, -80.24426

Last visited by Tracy C. Dec 2014

Google Maps using coordinates 37.05800, -80.24426

(src: Find a Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Dec 2014 with her note “Cemetery is located off of Griffith Creek Rd. There are at least 8 fieldstones/unmarked graves. Cemetery is fenced and very well-tended.”)

Original Source: Submitted to Floyd (usgenwebsites.org) & Floyd Co., Hx Society by Clara Martin of 3288 Charity Hwy, Woolwine, VA, 24185 Sept 2022

Published Books:

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.

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: In this compilation McNiel & McNeil are interchangeable as are Aldridge & Aldredge & Auldridge

Photo	NAME	Original survey	BIRTH	DEATH	MARKER NOTES	ANNOTATIONS
No marker	Austin, Arvil	yes	03 Nov 1924	12 Feb 1926		aka James Orvis Austin, s/o William Jennings & Rachel Hester (Muncy) Austin. [Death Cert] [Austin_Robert_Nancy]
No marker	Austin, Hester Muncy	yes	31 Mar 1907	04 Nov 1924		nee Rachel Hester Muncy, d/o Kyle & Cora Alice (Light) Muncy. [Death Cert] coffin ordered 11/4/1924 from Marion Hall. [obit – can’t find] [Muncy_Olivia_Luke] m. 1924 Floyd William Jennings Bryant Austin, 1900-1967, d/o Phillip Elijah & Delia Adeline (Walters) Austin. [Death Cert wva] [Austin_Robert_Nancy] William m. 2^nd abt 1929 can’t find, Lillian Virginia Hodge, d. 1973 WVA, d/o Edward Lee & Gracie Victoria (Dickerson) Hodge. [Hodge]
No marker	Flowers, Erwin Jr	yes				can’t find anything on this person
No marker	Furrow, Lola R.	yes				can’t find anything on this person
No marker	Furrow, Samuel	yes				can’t find anything on this person
No marker	McNiel, Elizabeth	yes	Jul 1834	1912		Elizabeth McNeil, d/o Jacob Jr & Elizabeth (Aldridge) McNeil. [Death not recorded Floyd Co., VA] Coffin was ordered 2/10/1912 from Marion Hall. [McNiel_Jacob_Elizabeth]
No marker	McNiel, Elizabeth Aldridge	yes	1800	aft 1890 census		nee Elizabeth Aldridge, d/o William Aldridge. [Death record [Obit – can’t find] m. no record found Jacob McNeil Jr, s/o Jacob McNeil Sr. [Death not recorded in Floyd Co., VA] [McNiel_Jacob_Elizabeth]
(src: Find a Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Dec 2014)	McNiel, Henry	yes	22 May 1846	23 May 1924		aka Henry Fairbanks McNeil Sr, s/o Jacob Jr & Elizabeth (Aldridge) McNeil. [Death Cert] [Obit – can’t find] [McNiel_Jacob_Elizabeth] 1^st m. 1868 Floyd, Sarah Jane Manning, d. 1872, d/o Claiborne & Sarah A. (Huff) Manning. [1872 Floyd Co., VA Death Register] [Manning_Claiborne_Sarah] 2^nd m. 1877 Floyd, Melissa Frances Swepston, d/o Elizabeth Swepston but raised by George Washington & Mary (Elliott) Swepston. [Swepston_George_Mary] 3^rd m. 1889 Floyd, Mary E. Delilah Smith, d/o Peter & 1st wife China (Wilson) Smith. [Death Cert] [Smith_Peter_2wives]
(src: Find a Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Dec 2014)	McNiel, Infant Daughter	yes	08 Feb 1913	18 Feb 1913	Infant Daughter of Charlie & Rispie McNiel	Infant child of Charlie Clifton & Rispie Ina (Muncy) McNeil. [Death Cert] noted as a son. [McNiel_Jacob_Elizabeth]
No marker	McNiel, Jacob Jr	yes	04 Jul 1797	mid 1870’s		Jacob McNeil Jr, s/o Jacob McNeil Sr. [Death not recorded in Floyd Co., VA] [McNiel_Jacob_Elizabeth] m. no record found mee Elizabeth Aldridge, d/o William Aldridge.
(src: Find a Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Dec 2014)	McNiel, Jacob William “Jake”	yes	22 Sep 1873	29 Apr 1951		Jacob William “Jake” McNiel, s/o Samuel Aldridge and Sarah E. (Poff) McNeil. [Death Cert] [McNiel_Samuel_Sarah] m. can’t find nee Ethel Jane Conner, b. Aug 11, 1894 VA, d. Apr 8, 1927 Fayette Co., WVA, d/o William Hosea J. “Hode” & Mary J. or L. (Carr) Conner. [Death Cert wva] [Obit – can’t find] [Conner_JohnR_LouisaDoshia] The Roanoke Times Roanoke, Virginia · Monday, April 30, 1951
(src: Find a Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Dec 2014)	McNiel, Lula Jane	yes	Jun 1893	Jul 1909		Lula Jane McNiel, d/o Henry Fairbanks Sr & 3^rd wife Mary E. Delilah (Smith) McNiel. [Death Records not available pre-1853 except 1850 Mortality Schedule; 1863-1864; 1896-1911] [McNiel_Jacob_Elizabeth]
(src: Find a Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Dec 2014)	McNiel, Mary	yes	19 Aug 1861	21 Dec 1938		nee Mary E. Delilah Smith, d/o Peter & China (Wilson) Smith. [Death Cert] [Obit – can’t find] [Smith_Peter_2wives] m. m. 1889 Floyd as 3^rd wife of Henry Fairbanks McNeil Sr, s/o Jacob Jr & Elizabeth (Aldridge) McNeil. [Death Cert] [McNiel_Jacob_Elizabeth] See above for previous marriages.
(src: Find a Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Dec 2014)	McNiel, R. M.	yes	06 Sep 1896	14 Sep 1914		nee Rispey Ina Muncy, d/o Kyle & Cora Alice (Light) Muncy. [Death Cert] [Obit – can’t find] [Muncy_Olivia_Luke] m. 1912 Floyd Charlie Clifton McNiel, 1890-1975, d/o Henry & 3rd wife Mary E. Delilah (Smith) McNiel. [Death Cert] [McNiel_Jacob_Elizabeth]
(src: Find a Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Dec 2014)	McNiel, Samuel A.	yes	1832	31 Jan 1915		aka Samuel Aldridge McNeil, s/o Jacob Jr & Elizabeth (Aldridge) McNeil. [Death Cert] [Obit – can’t find] [McNiel_Samuel_Sarah] m. 1869 Floyd nee Sarah E. Poff, d/o William B. & Nancy Ann (Underwood) Poff. [Death Records not available pre-1853 except 1850 Mortality Schedule; 1863-1864; 1896-1911] [Poff_WilliamB_NancyA]
(src: Find a Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Dec 2014)	McNiel, Sarah P.	yes	1850	1900		nee Sarah E. Poff, d/o William B. & Nancy Ann (Underwood) Poff. [Death Records not available pre-1853 except 1850 Mortality Schedule; 1863-1864; 1896-1911] [Poff_WilliamB_NancyA] m. 1869 Floyd Samuel Aldridge McNiel, s/o Jacob Jr & Elizabeth (Aldridge) McNeil. [Death Cert] [McNiel_Samuel_Sarah]
No Marker	Smith, Charlotte Peradine	yes	30 Apr 1852	13 Sep 1926		Charlotte Peradine Smith, d/o Peter & China (Wilson) Smith. [Death Cert] as Perrydine Smith. ] [Obit – can’t find] [Smith_Peter_2wives] m. 1900 Floyd, div by 1906 when Charles remarried. Charles H. Sink, d. 27 June 1919 at abt 62 yo, s/o Leonard & Sarah Jane (Saul) Sink of Franklin Co., VA. [no file] No Stone, but her coffin was ordered 9/13/1928 from Marion Hall. Daughter of Peter and China Wilson Smith (who are buried @ Diamond Knob). Married to C.H. Link, Franklin County 4/1/1900—listed as divorced in 1910 census, Floyd County.

Original Survey: Submitted to Floyd (usgenwebsites.org) & Floyd Co., Hx Society by Clara Martin of 3288 Charity Hwy, Woolwine, VA, 24185 Sept 2022

Compiled by Clara Martin, 3288 Charity Hwy, Woolwine, VA 24185, June 2014

Burials at McNeil Cemetery, Griffith Creek Rd, Floyd County, VA. From Daniel’s Run Rd, turn onto Lick Ridge Rd and then right onto Griffith Creek Rd.

This is James McNeill’s list; he was our 3^rd cousin. James cleaned up this overgrown cemetery in 2008; he put a nice fence around it and put up a durable sign. James visited Uncle Johnny often in the last few years of Uncle Johnny’s life—and took him to visit the cleaned-up cemetery. Sadly, James was killed in a horrific car wreck at the foot of Bent Mountain on Mar 22, 2011; his daughter Dreama is receptionist at Dr. Kuiken’s office in Floyd. NOTE: Dreama McNeill Eanes died in 2022.

1. Rispie Muncy McNeil (3/6/1896—9/14/1914) daughter of Kyle and Cora Alice Light Muncy

2. Infant daughter of Charlie and Rispie McNeil (2/8/1913—2/18/1913)

3. Lula Jane McNeil (6/1893—7/1909) daughter of Henry McNeil and Mary Smith

4. Henry McNeil (5/22/1846—5/23/1924) son of Jacob McNeil, Jr. and Elizabeth Auldridge McNeil; brother of James Ireson McNeil; fought for the Union in the Civil War

5. Mary Smith McNeil (8/19/1861—12/21/1939) daughter of Peter and China Wilson Smith; 3^rd wife of Henry McNeil (Peter and China are buried in McNeil Cemetery on Diamond Knob Rd)

6. Samuel A. McNeil (1832—1915) son of Jacob McNeil, Jr. and Elizabeth Auldridge McNeil; brother of James Ireson McNeil; fought in Civil War—not sure which side

7. Sarah Poff McNeil (1850—1900) daughter of William and Nancy Underwood Poff; wife of Samuel A. McNeil

8. Jacob William McNeil (Jake) (1873-1951) son of Samuel A. and Sarah Poff McNeil

9. Jacob McNeil, Jr. (7/4/1797—mid 1870s)—No Stone—This is our great-great-grandfather. Son of Jacob McNeil, Sr.; father of James Ireson McNeil

10. Elizabeth Auldridge McNeil (ca. 1800—after 1890)—No Stone—This is our great-great-grandmother. Wife of Jacob McNeil, Jr. Daughter of William Auldridge of Pocahontas County. She is listed in the 1890 Census of Floyd County, age 90 (compiled by Marjorie Fluor Moore). [NOTE: I cannot understand why James Ireson McNeil, our great-grandfather, did not erect stones for his parents. From all accounts, he was a smart and prosperous man, for the times.]

11. Elizabeth McNeil (7/1834--??) No Stone, but her coffin was ordered 2/10/1912 from Marion Hall. Somewhere Dreama McNeill found the records of local coffin maker Marion Hall. Elizabeth was daughter of Jacob McNeil Jr and Elizabeth Auldridge McNeil.

12. Charlotte Peradine Smith (1852--??) No Stone, but her coffin was ordered 9/13/1928 from Marion Hall. Daughter of Peter and China Wilson Smith (who are buried @ Diamond Knob). Married to C.H. Link, Franklin County 4/1/1900—listed as divorced in 1910 census, Floyd County.

13. Hester Muncy Austin No Stone, coffin ordered 11/4/1924 from Marion Hall. No other information.

14. Arvil Austin No Stone, no other information

15. Samuel Furrow No Stone, no other information

16. Lola R. Furrow No Stone, no other information

17. Erwin Flowers, Jr. No Stone but fairly recent, infant daughter of Donald McNeil, who is a son of Jacob Ireson (Buck) McNeil (huh?)

[Note—2017: Henry McNeil (#4 above) was our great-great-uncle. He had 5 children by his 3^rd wife (Mary Smith McNeil, #5 above). One of his children was well-known Floyd County musician, Sam McNeil; Sam was a founder of the Floyd County Ramblers. One of his daughters was Elfreeda McNeil who married Paul Duncan, owner/founder of all the Duncan Auto businesses in New River Valley, Roanoke Valley, and Franklin County.]