Mills-Wimmer-Beckner Cemetery – Floyd Co., VA

Located on Deer Run Drive SE, 33 feet from intersection of  Parkway Dr SE.

37.083593, -80.122929 Google Maps

Updated survey done June 2012 by Tracy C.

Original Source: Documented Apr 23, 2008 by Genevieve Starkey, Judy Blackwell and John Harman

Find A Grave Name: Mills-Wimmer-Beckner Cemetery, Copper Hill, Floyd Co., VA

This small family cemetery is located about 3/10ths of a mile along Deer Run Drive (State Road 647), just east of US221 in Copper Hill. It is on a small rise on the right hand side of the road and may be obscured by grass and weeds, but it can be seen if you look carefully.

Note: more graves noted in Find A Grave version.

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by John Skillman)

Annotations – 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

Notes: more graves noted in Find A Grave version.

All photo by John Skillman Jul 2011

NAME

BIRTH

DEATH

MARKER NOTES

ANOTATIONS

Wimmer, Infant

 

1911 (one date)

Infant of W. A. & Lydia Wimmer

 

 

Beckner, Walter E.

24 Jul 1910

1943

 

Aka Walter Ethorne Beckner, s/o John William & Izetta (Greer) Beckner. [no file]

Manning, Nellie Wimmer

7 Sep 1920

20 Jun 2005

 

Aka Nellie Essie Wimmer m. Oliver Wendell Manning 1938 Floyd. [Wimmer_Isaac_Mahala]

Beckner, John W.

&

Beckner, Izetta G.

31 May 1865

 

2 Feb 1866

27 Aug 1945

 

14 Mar 1940

WW II probably WW I if any – 1930 census states not a veteran

Aka John William Beckner, s/o Richard & Mary (Ridgeway) Beckner of Franklin Co., VA. [no file]

m. 1884 Franklin

nee Izetta Greer, d/o Jahue & Mary (Thomas) Greer of Franklin Co., VA. [no file]

Teel, Terry

No date

No date

Co H 6th VA Inf CSA

[Teel_Terry_Lydia]

Manning, David Wayne

22 Jun 1963

 

s/o Oliver & Nellie Manning

 

Wimmer, James  C.

1873

1941

 

 

Reed, Ollie Beckner

17 Apr 1892

30 Sep 1963

Wife of Charley Beckner Reed

Ollie L. Beckner m. Charles Benjamin Reed 1913 Floyd)

Beckner, Columbus H.

13 Oct 1896

20 Sep 1908

 

 

Wimmer, Ann Eliza Mills

1844

1894

Wife of I. K. Wimmer

 

Wimmer, Louise Kelley

1874

1898

Wife of J. T. Wimmer

 

Likens, Harvey

04 Dec 1866

19 Jan 1906

 

Not in original survey of this cemetery done 2008 but photographed by John Skillman 2011

Marker not found by John Skillman Jul 2011 in updated survey done June 2021 by Tracy C.”

Teel, Lydia Margaret Wilson

1843

26 Jun 1900

 

Not in original survey of this cemetery done 2011 or in updated survey done June 2021 by Tracy C.” but likely as her husband Terry Teel is buried here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Those noted below are noted as interned in this

Cemetery by FAG but markers not found by:

 

Original survey by Genevieve Starkey, Judy Blackwell and John Harman 2008

or

by John Skillman Jul 2011

or

Tracy C. Jul 2021

 

Conclusion: Cannot verify person is buried in this the,

Beckner #1 Cemetery

 

 

 

 

 

Marker not found to photograph

Beckner, James Calihill

23 Dec 1878

25 Dec 1952

 

Not in original survey of this cemetery done 2008 & not photographed by John Skillman in 2011 or found by not found in updated survey done June 2021 by Tracy C.”

DC states buried Family Cemetery, Floyd Co., VA

Marker not found to photograph

King, John

1759

28 Feb 1843

 

Not in original survey of this cemetery done 2008 & not photographed by John Skillman in 2011 or found by not found in updated survey done June 2021 by Tracy C.”

 

Submitters source:

From U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006
Name: John King
Death Age: 84
Birth Date: 1759
Death Date: 1843
Internment Place: Virginia, USA
Cemetery Address: Copper Hill, VA 24079
Cemetery: Wimmer Cemetery
Notes: Pvt Us Army Revolutionary War

Marker not found to photograph

Mills, Anderson

04 Jul 1816

15 Jul 1816

 

Not in original survey of this cemetery done 2008 & not photographed by John Skillman in 2011 or found by not found in updated survey done June 2021 by Tracy C.”

Marker not found to photograph

Mills, James Taylor

11 Dec 1847

12Mar 1915

 

Not in original survey of this cemetery done 2008 & not photographed by John Skillman in 2011 or found by not found in updated survey done June 2021 by Tracy C.”

DC states buried Home Burial Ground.

Marker not found to photograph

Mills, Sarah Frances “Sally”

1836

16 Aug 1915

 

Not in original survey of this cemetery done 2008 & not photographed by John Skillman in 2011 or found by not found in updated survey done June 2021 by Tracy C.”

DC states buried Family Cemetery.

Marker not found to photograph

Wimmer, Tabitha Jane

20 Sep1850

30 Sep 1934

 

Nee Millis, widow of J. H. Wimmer.Not in original survey of this cemetery done 2008 & not photographed by John Skillman in 2011 or found by not found in updated survey done June 2021 by Tracy C.”

DC states buried Mills Cemetery.