Otey Cemetery – Sowers, Floyd Co., VA.

Cemetery is on Otey Rd NE just before Saint Matthews Cemetery. It is extremely overgrown.

37.015755, -80.373144 using Google Maps

Last visited & photographed by Tracy C. Oct 2014; revisited Sep 2021 by Jim Slusher & wife Lucy. Found “a walnut tree, full of fruit, split and crashed into the cemetery. I could make out a number of stones in the debris. I did see one stone that looks like it may have been damaged when the tree fell. I’m going back when the leaves drop.”

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Oct 2014)

Photo by Jim & Lucy Slusher Sep 2021.

Original Source: None that I can find.

Find A Grave Name: Otey Cemetery, Sowers, Floyd Co., VA.

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:

Photo	NAME	BIRTH	DEATH	MARKER NOTES	ANNOTATIONS
(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Oct 2014)	Otey, Cliffie Ola	07 Oct 1886	23 Oct 1904		d/o Charles Dexter & 1^st wife Cynthia Amanda (Martin) Otey. [Otey_Jonathan_2wives]
(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Oct 2014)	Otey, Cynthia A.	14 May 1864	18 Sep 1898		nee Cynthia Amanda Martin, d/o Moses & 1^st wife Nancy (Spangler) Martin. [Martin_Moses_2wives] m. 1882 as 1^st wife of Charles Dexter Otey, s/o Joshua Wesley & Sarah Ann (Showalter) Otey. [Otey_Jonathan_2wives]
(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Oct 2014)	Otey, Hattie Mae	23 Jul 1872	23 Jun 1951		Hattie Mae Walton, d/o James William & Mary Jane (Lancaster) Walton. [Walton_Doctor_Lirena] m. 1908 Montgomery as 3^rd wife of Charles Dexter Otey, s/o Joshua Wesley & Sarah Ann (Showalter) Otey. [Otey_Jonathan_2wives]
(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Oct 2014)	Otey, Joshua Wesley	27 Sep 1829	01 Mar 1913		Joshua Wesley Otey, s/o Jonathan & 1^st wife Nancy (Sowers) Otey. [Otey_Jonathan_2wives] m. 1853 Montgomery nee Sarah Ann Showalter, d/o Daniel J. & Sarah Ann (Griffith) Showalter. [no file]
(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Oct 2014)	Otey, S. W.			footstone	Possible Sallie W. Otey, d/o Charles Dexter & 2^nd wife Virginia Lily “Jennie” (Walton) Otey. She was 1 yo in 1900 & 11 yo in 1910.
(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Oct 2014)	Otey, Sarah A.	17 Dec 1832	27 Feb 1929		nee Sarah Ann Showalter, d/o Daniel J. & Sarah Ann (Griffith) Showalter. [no file] m. 1853 Montgomery Joshua Wesley Otey, s/o Jonathan & 1^st wife Nancy (Sowers) Otey. [Otey_Jonathan_2wives]
	Otey, Jennie	12 May 1867	unknown	bottom of stone buried	nee Virginia Lily “Jennie” Walton, d. before 1908, d/o James William & Mary Jane (Lancaster) Walton. [Walton_Doctor_Lirena] m. 1896 Floyd as 3^rd wife of Charles Dexter Otey, s/o Joshua Wesley & Sarah Ann (Showalter) Otey. [Otey_Jonathan_2wives]