Sumner Cemetery – off Thunderstruck Rd onto Sumner Lane, Floyd Co., VA.

N 36 59.500 W 80 21.429

Last visited & photographed by Tracy C. Aug 2020.

Original Source: Copied some years ago, probably by Evelyne Rutrough; revisited by Julie Hancock & Genevieve C. Starkey Mar 11, 2008 & again by Tracy C. Aug 2020.

Find A Grave Name: Sumner Cemetery (combination of both Jubal Knob & Sumner Cemetery)

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: Note this cemetery is separated only by a fence from the Jubal Knob Cemetery.

Photo

NAME

X = Original survey

BIRTH

DEATH

MARKER NOTES

ANNOTATIONS

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Aug 2020)

X Sumner, Elbert Lee

06 Apr 1898

11 Jul 1932

 

s/o Jacob Johnson & Mary Emily Belle [Simmons) Sumner. [Sumner_Joel_Lucinda]

May have died in PA. May have m. Madeline M. Baker of the South Mountain area of PA in 1930.

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Aug 2020)

X Sumner, Francis Marion

+

X Sumner, Amy Ellen

13 Sep 1847

 

26 Jul 1851

15 Sep 1925

 

12 Dec 1941

 

Francia Marion Sumner, s/o Joel Owen & Lucinda E. (Thompson) Sumner. [DeathCert] [Sumner_Joel_Lucinda]

m. 1871 Floyd

Amy Ellen Hawley, d/o Boyd & Susan (Cooper) Hawley. [DeathCert] [Hawley_Boyd_Susan]

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Aug 2020)

X Sumner, Jacob Johnson

+

X Sumner, Emily B. Simmons

11 Aug 1866

 

03 May 1872

17 Nov 1953

 

21 Jun 1954

 

Jacob Johnson Sumner, s/o Joel Owen & Lucinda E. (Thompson) Sumner. [DeathCert] [Sumner_Joel_Lucinda]

m. 1890 Floyd

nee Mary Emily Belle Simmons, d/o Joseph H. & Octavia (Graham) Simmons. [DeathCert] [Simmons_JamesW_4wives]

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Aug 2020)

X Sumner, Willard J.

18 Jan 1895

16 Nov 1928

 

aka Willard Johnson Sumner, s/o Jacob Johnson & Mary Emily Belle [Simmons) Sumner. [DeathCert – can’t find VA or WVA] [Sumner_Joel_Lucinda]

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Tracy C. Aug 2020)

X Walker, Goldie I. Sumner

16 Dec 1901

14 Mar 1935

w/o James A. Walker

nee Goldie I. Sumner, d/o Jacob Johnson & Mary Emily Belle (Simmons) Sumner. [DeathCert] [Sumner_Joel_Lucinda]

m. 1922 Floyd

James Anston Walker, s/o General Washington & Roena J. (Simmons) Walker. [DeathCert] [Walker]

 

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