POWELL CEMETERY, immediately off the Blue Ridge Parkway at about Mile Post 141 on the east side of the Parkway (actually Franklin County). It is a small (about 20 feet square) private cemetery about 20 yards off the Parkway to the left off a private dirt road, Copper Hill, Franklin Co., VA.

N 37 04.185  W 080 06.3644

 

Google Maps using above coordinates – NOT VERIFIED

Cemetery image

(src: Find A Grave, photo added by John Skillman Jun 2013)

 

 

(src: Find A Grave, photo added by John Skillman Jun 2013)

Original Source: Documented 2005 by Genevieve Starkey and Jo Parr.

Find A Grave Name: Powell Cemetery, Located immediately off the Blue Ridge Parkway at about Mile Post 141 on the east side of the Parkway (actually Franklin County). It is a small (about 20 feet square) private cemetery about 20 yards off the Parkway to the left off a private dirt road.

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

Original

survey

BIRTH

DEATH

MARKER NOTES

ANNOTATIONS

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Powell, Harry G.

yes

11 Apr 1900

12 Sep 1901

s/o N. C. & F. B. Powell

Harry G. Powell, s/o Nathan Clemons & Flora Bell (Henry) Powell of Franklin & Roanoke Counties. [no file]

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Powell, Nathan

yes

21 Jul 1902

04 Nov 1905

s/o N. C. & F. B. Powell

Nathan Powell, s/o Nathan Clemons & Flora Bell (Henry) Powell of Franklin & Roanoke Counties. [no file]

 

Original Survey:

POWELL CEMETERY, Parkway Milepost 141.0, Floyd Co., VA

W 37 04.185  W 080 063644

Documented 2005 by Genevieve Starkey and Jo Parr

Fences and mowed.

Nathan

Powell

21-Jul-1902

4-Nov-1905

s/o N G & F B Powell

Harry G

Powell

11-Apr-1900

12-Sep-1901

s/o N G & F B Powell

Footstone H G P