RINER
GRAVEYARD
Located Indian Creek on Route 23
slightly
north of the entrance to the Scott Roberson Hollow, high on a hill.
Copied
by Rhonda Robertson, Gladys Julian Stallard and Nancy Clark Brown,
April
23, 1978.
Lillie Fair Roberson, b. February
24, 1888,
d. january 11, 1963
Winfield Scott Roberson, b. June 5,
1886,
d. November 15, 1958
Lilllie Fair was the daughter of
Daniel H.
and Eliza Mullins Riner and the wife of Scott Roberson.
Winfield Scott Roberson was the son of
John
Adam Gus and Nancy Bevins Roberson, they lived and Scott operated a
lumber
company nearby.
Ballard W. Riner, VA TEC5 1959 SVC
COMD UNIT
WW11, b. October 3, 1908, d. March 18, 1963
Mary E. Stidham, b. 1899, d. 1974
Also buried here in an unmarked grave
is
her husband, Manuel Stidham, he was killed by a hit and run driver on
lower
Indian Creek. During my childhood this family lived at the Berry
Collins
Place near Buck Knob.
Rufus Stidham, b. 1924, d. 1967, son
of Manuel
and Mary Stidham
Diannor Stidham, b. December 19, 1882,
d.
June 4, 1970
Since copying this I have corresponded
with
a descendant of Diannor Stidham and she is of the opinion Diannor
probably
died at an earlier date. Diannor is the mother of Manuel Stidham.
James Edward Freeman, b. May 27,
1909, d.
April 10, 1952
Edward is the son of Critt and Cassie
Riner
Freeman.
James William Freeman, b. June 19,
1950, d.
July 4, 1950
Versie Faye Cantrell, b. and d. October
1,
1953
Myra Jeanette Freeman, b. may 25,
1942, d.
December 4, 1971
Myra was the daughter of Earl and
Bertha
Cox Freeman, she was a loverly young woman and worked as a teacher’s
aide
at Pound Primary School.
Mildred F. Willis, b. 1923, d.
1963Mildred
was also the daughter of Earl and Bertha Cox Freeman
George Buford Carter, VA OMI US NAVY
KOREA,
b. November 6, 1917, d. September 23, 1972
Edna G. Gibson, b.1885, d. 1944
G. E.(Emmitt) Gibson, b. 1875 d. 1939
Edna was the daughter of Daniel and
Eliza
Mullins Riner, she and Emmitt lived and operated a store slightly north
of the graveyard.
Jane E. Gibson, October 29, 1849, d.
June
18, 1929
Jane is the mother of Emmitt Gibson.
Arthur E. Gibson, b. February 19,
1907, d.
February 12, 1916
He was the son of Emmitt and Edna Riner
Gibson
Dennis E. Riner, b. 1882, d. 1936
Dennis was the son of Daniel and Eliza
Mullins
Riner and the husband of Susan Skeen Riner, they lived at the foot of
the
graveyard hill.
Eliza A. Riner, b. 1844, d. 1936
Daniel H. Riner, b. 1830, d. 1921
Eliza was the daughter of Riley and
Elizabeth
Ingle Mullins of the Birchfield section. Daniel was the son of Jacob
Riner.
Daniel and Eliza lived at what is now refered to as the Scott Roberson
place, in a large two story log home, they operated a store and a
“Traveler’s
Rest” where people traveling and those hauling in wagons could stop and
get a meal and rest. Daniel was a well known minister in the Primitive
Baptist Church, he performed many marriages.
Victor W. Cantrell, b. February 14,
1916,
d. November 3, 1950
Wilma M. Cantrell, b. August 16, 1918
Paula Cantrell, b. and d. May 26, 1947
Victor was the son of Henry and Esther
Hubbard
Cantrell and the husband of Wilma, daughter of Scott and Lillie Riner
Roberson
William Earl Freeman, b. 1898, d.
1950
Bertha Freeman, b. 1898, d. 1975
Earl Freeman was the son of Critt and
Cassie
Riner Freeman, he was a coal miner and died while working in the mines
in the Cavenger Hollow on Indian Creek.. Bertha, his wife,was the
daughter
of Floyd and Melissa Adkins Cox of the Cox Hollow section of Indian
Creek.
Earl and Bertha lived on old Route 23 about half way up Indian Creek
Mountain
towards Wise. They raised a large family and Sheila, their daughter was
one of my dearest childhood friends.
Joseph Critt Freeman, b. October 14,
1866,
d. January 14, 1929
Eliza Ann Cassie Freeman, b. August 17,
1869,
d. October 13, 1940
Ernest Clyde Freeman, b. October 15,
1892,
d. May 7, 1940
Critt was the son of Joseph Freeman and
Cassie
was the daughter of Daniel and Eliza Mulllins Riner.
Joseph Arvil Freeman, b. December
15, 1911,
d. December 16, 1911
James O’Dell Freeman, b. August 17,
1925,
February 20, 1927
Mack Freeman, August, 1940
See
photos of this cemetery
submitted by Nancy Clark Brown
©2001
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