Unnamed Cemetery beside Caldwell Cemetery

City of Radford, VA

In front yard of 603 6th Avenue

Submitted by Mary Frances Conner Williams and daughter Leigh Williams of Pulaski Co., Virginia to Barb Stanley’s original Floyd Co., VA News List site

Recorded January 2002 with a digital camera
fredmary@i-plus.net

Low steel posts surround this cemetery with a chain strung between them.  It takes up ¼ of the front yard and is right beside the Caldwell Cemetery.
The present resident states that many years ago there was a large farmhouse, behind the current house, in which a widowed lady lived.  Her relatives were the ones buried in this little cemetery. The farmhouse burned and the children of the widow built her a small 4-room home in front of the site of the old home.  That is why the cemetery is now in the front yard.  The present owner didn’t know the surname of the widow, but it might be one of those listed below. The present owner has enlarged and remodeled this home.
In the days of the farmhouse, there were thought to be no other homes built in this block of 4Ave, Monroe, Lawrence and Spring Streets.  Now every lot seems to have a house.

ALLEN
 Thelma Lee/daughter of/W. J. & T. W. Allen/born Sept. 10, 1911/died Sept. 25,
  1912/Budded on earth to bloom in Heaven

COLEMAN
 Emma Likens/Aug. 8, 1859/Feb. 25, 1938
 J. L./May 1, 1850/Mar. 10, 1910

HOWELL
 James E./July 12, 1906/May 19, 1953

JONES
 George T./Sept. 4, 1885/Oct. 24, 1947
 Mary C./Aug. 2, 1887/Nov. 14, 1938

LIKENS
 Emma (see Coleman)