Wade-Slusher Family Cemetery, Indigo Mountain Road to right on Ferney Creek Road, Floyd Co., VA.

aka Noah Wade Family Cemetery

36.892050, -80.432710

N 36 53.509  W 80 25.972

Floyd County, VA GIS Parcel ID 52-50R; Owner Name CEMETERY; Acres 0.134

src: Google Maps using coordinates 36.892050, -80.432710

src: FAG; photo added by Sammie Wade on Feb 2011

src: FAG; photo added by Tracy C. Feb 2025

src: FAG; photo added by Tracy C. Feb 2025

Original Source: Memories of community members submitted to Floyd Co., VA Newslist – not dated; Documented by Jo Parr & Ginger Thelin early 2007; photo documented Wanda Simpkins & Margie C. Belcher – dates unknown; photo documented by Tracy C. Feb 2025

Published Books:

Cemeteries Floyd (Montgomery) County, VA Indian Valley District Volume I by Elza B. Cox & Phyllis G. Phillips ©1980. Added with permission of Elza B. Cox Nov. 2022.

Floyd (Montgomery) County, VA Burks Fork District Volume II Compiled by Phyllis Goad Phillips And Genevieve Cochran Starkey 1st  of 109 Cemeteries pg 1-2. Added with permission of Genevieve Cochran Starkey May 2021.

Tombstone Inscriptions of Floyd County, Virginia ~ Compiled by Donna J. Robertson ~ © 1993

Head of the River, Rest Vale, Copper Hill Brethren, Wilson’s ~ Cemeteries in Floyd County ~ Work compiled by Billy & Juanita Grice, Salem, VA 1886-1997

Others submitted to original Floyd County, VA News List 1st maintained by Barb Stanley (1934-2006); compilers will be individually identified.

Find A Grave Name: Noah Wade Family Cemetery, Indigo Mountain Road to right on Ferney Creek Road, Floyd Co., VA.

aka Wade- Slusher Family Cemetery

36.892050, -80.432710

N 36 53.509  W 80 25.972

Floyd County, VA GIS Parcel ID 52-50R; Owner Name CEMETERY; Acres 0.134

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: There are 12 – 30 graves marked only with fieldstones + 3 unreadable markers, per Jo Parr & Ginger Thelin early 2007.

Photo

NAME

Original survey

X

BIRTH

DEATH

MARKER NOTES

ANNOTATIONS

Informed community members only; CANNOT VERIFY BURIAL IN THIS CEMETERY

Duncan, Infant

yes

 

 

 

Infant of Elisha Duncan.

src: FAG; photo added by Tracy C. Feb 2025

Slusher, Mary E.

yes

19 May 1857

16 Oct 1860

Age 3 Years 5 M

Mary E. Slusher, d/o Lewis Hamilton & Sarah Jane (Wade) Slusher. [1859 Floyd Co., VA Death Register] Death register reads age at 3y 6m. Birth record indcates Mary was born May 20, 1858. I know, dates don’t jive but fairly confident Mary is a s/o of Lewis & Sarah. [Slusher_Nancy_David]

src: FAG; photo added by Tracy C. Feb 2025

Slusher, Nancy

yes

11 Nov 1858

06 Apr 1862

Age 3 Years 5 M 27 D

Nancy Slusher, d/o Lewis Hamilton & Sarah Jane (Wade) Slusher. [1862 Floyd Co., VA Death Register] [Slusher_Nancy_David]

src: FAG; photo by Margie C. Belcher & added by Sammie Wade Feb 2011

Wade, Eunice

yes

01 Sep 1864

31 Mar 1881

Wife of James L. Wade

Eunice Wade, d/o Isaac & 1st wife Martha (Moran) Wade. [Death not recorded in Floyd Co., VA Death Registers] [Wade_Henry_Elizabeth]

m. 1885 Floyd as 2nd wife of

James Lafait Wade, s/o Noah W. & Martha Jane (Phillips) Wade. [Death not recorded in Floyd Co., VA Death Registers] [Wade_Nathan_Adelphia]

src: FAG; photo added by Tracy C. Feb 2025 with this note “Stone appears to read death date as October 5th but Floyd County death index shows October 10th.”

Wade, Jacob

no

06 Sep 1885

05 Oct 1886

Son of J. L. Wade

Jacob Wade, s/o James Lafait & Eunice (Wade) Wade. [1886 Floyd Co., VA Death Register] Day of Death differs. [Wade_Nathan_Adelphia]

Footstone only remains beside stone of Eunice Wade

Wade, James L.

yes

01 Jul 1865

1894

Footstone only

James Lafait Wade, s/o Noah W. & Martha Jane (Phillips) Wade. [Death not recorded in Floyd Co., VA Death Registers] [Wade_Nathan_Adelphia]

1st m. 1885 Floyd, nee Eunice Wade, d/o Isaac & 1st wife Martha (Moran) Wade. [Death not recorded in Floyd Co., VA Death Registers] [Wade_Henry_Elizabeth]

2nd m. 1889 Floyd, nee Orlena Sarah Jane Duncan, d/o ohn Tobias & 1st wife Arena Ann (Hill) Duncan. [duncan_blancheJr]

src: FAG; photo by Wanda Simpkins & added by Sammie Wade Feb 2011

Wade, Martha Jane

no

01 Sep 1847

Feb 1905

 

nee Martha Jane Phillips, d/o Robert W. & 1st wife Nancy (Phillips) Phillips Sr. [1905 VA Death Cert – n/a] [Obit – can’t find] [Phillips_RobertWSr_2wives]

m. 1864 Floyd

Noah W. Wade, s/o Nathan & Adelphia “Delphia” (Cox) Wade. [Death Cert – wva] [obit – can’t find] [Wade_Nathan_Adelphia]

 

Informed community members only and if they did mean Sarah Alice R. Wade d/o Noah W. & Martha Jane then NO, she in not buried in this cemetery. She is buried with her husband In Jay Co., IN

Wade, Sarah

no

31 Aug 1886

01 Feb 1965

 

Sarah Alice R. Wade, d/o Noah W. & 1st wife Martha Jane (Phillips) Wade. [Wade_Nathan_Adelphia]

m. 1905 Floyd

James Leonard Boyd, , s/o Ira Jefferson & Irene Emily (Akers) Boyd. [Boyd_Newberry_Jane]

Marker not found; Death Cert indicates he is buried in Lester, Raleigh Co., WVA; CANNOT VERIFY BURIAL IN THIS CEMETERY

Wade, Noah

no

03 Sep 1846

23 Apr 1929

 

Noah W. Wade, s/o Nathan & Adelphia “Delphia” (Cox) Wade. [Death Cert – wva] [obit – can’t find] [Wade_Nathan_Adelphia]

1st m. 1864 Floyd, nee Martha Jane Phillips, d/o Robert W. & 1st wife Nancy (Phillips) Phillips Sr. [1905 VA Death Cert – n/a] [Obit – can’t find]  [Phillips_RobertWSr_2wives]

2nd m.  1909 Raleigh Co., WVA, Almeda Wayne nee Hylton, d/o Rebecca Hylton. [Hylton_HenryT_3wives] Almeda 1st m. 1889 Floyd, Henry Wayne, b. Bedford, s/o Thomas & Mary (unknown) Wayne. [no file]

 

Original Survey:

 

Noah Wade Cemetery

End of SR 803, just off SR 631

Alum Ridge, FCVA

No markers with names or dates. Informed community members state the following people are buried here:

 

Noah Wade

b. 9-30-1846

d. (???)

&

Martha J. (Phillips) Wade, wife of Noah

b. 9-1-1847

d. (???)

 

Sarah Wade, d/o Noah & Martha

 

Infant of Elisha Duncan

 

Wade – Slusher Cemetery

Indigo Mountain Road to right on Ferney Creek Road

N 36 53.509  W 80 25.972

Documented by Jo Parr & Ginger Thelin early 2007

 

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