Wilson T. Vaughn Family Cemetery, Burks Fork Road SW (Rt. 784), Willis VA.

beside Akers’ home, Floyd Co., VA.

off of Buffalo Mountain Road.

According to older residents this was once a very large cemetery with Indians, Whites and Blacks buried here. Stones do not indicate this.

 

Google Maps using 36.810190, -80.516130

FAG; photo added by Sam Eanes Sep 2010

These are the 2 Vaughn graves

FAG; photo added by Sam Eanes Sep 2010

Original Source: Cemeteries Floyd (Montgomery) County, VA Burks Fork District Volume II Compiled by Phyllis Goad Phillips And Genevieve Cochran Starkey 50th of 109 Cemeteries pg 27. Added with permission of Genevieve Cochran Starkey May 2021.

Find A Grave Name:

Annotations – added by Barb Camery Reininger BootsWI@gmail.com

+ indicates on same tombstone

& indicates a relationship

FAG: Find a Grave

[Death Record n/a] Floyd Co., VA Death Records n/a 1863-1864 & parts of other years seeming to be missing.

[Death Cert n/a] Virginia Death Records, with some exceptions, not available 1899-Jun 14, 1912. src: Virginia Vital Records • FamilySearch

Notes:

Photos

NAME

Original Survey

BIRTH

DEATH

MARKER NOTES

ANNOTATIONS

McPeek, Drusilla

yes

 

1814

 

nee Drusilla

m.

William “Billy” McPeak.

marker not found but was noted in original survey

Initial L. M. P.

yes

 

 

 

Probably a McPeak. Marker beside Drusilla McPeek. 

Vaughn, Susannah

yes

11 May 1813

22 Apr 1911

 

nee Susannah DeHart, d/o Elijah & Mary Ellyson (Jordan) DeHart.

m.

Wilson Turner Vaughn, s/o

Vaughn, Wilson T.

yes

10 May 1810

17 Jul 1883

 

aka Wilson Turner Vaughn, s/o

m.

nee Susannah DeHart, d/o Elijah & Mary Ellyson (Jordan) DeHart.

 

 

Original Source: Cemeteries Floyd (Montgomery) County, VA Burks Fork District Volume II Compiled by Phyllis Goad Phillips And Genevieve Cochran Starkey 50th of 109 Cemeteries pg 27. Added with permission of Genevieve Cochran Starkey May 2021.

50. Vaughn, Wilson & Susannah – on SR 784 beside Akers home, Floyd Co., VA.

Pg 27

Older citizens state this was a large cemetery of Indian, White & Black members buried here.

 

Vaughn, Wilson T.

b. 5-10-1810, d. 7-17-1883

&

Vaughn, Susannah (nee Dehart)

b. 5-11-1813, d. 4-22-1911

(Wilson & Susannah are in a fenced in area,  separate from the others)

 

McPeek, Drusilla

1814

(only date)

 

L. M. P.

(nothing else legible)