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SISSON CEMETERY |
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N 3703.172 W 08013.226 |
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From Simpson, Va on road 653, Shawsville Pike, turn left on Diamond Knob Road and
travel about one mile. |
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Turn left on School House Lane (Washington School used to be in
this vicinity). You will be on a very
narrow |
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road and will come to a "No Trespassing" sign. Stop a little beyond the sign and the
cemetery will be up the |
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hill on your left. You will
have to back out until you can find a place to turn around. |
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Documented by Mary Conner Williams and revisited by Genevieve
Starkey and Judy Blackwell (no date noted) |
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Cemetery History: This Floyd County cemetery was established
near Simpson, circa 1865, by members of |
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the Ludlow B and Catherine Grisso Sisson family.
A large number of the first burials in the cemetery were |
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marked with local flat fieldstones showing no identification. |
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Commercial markers were used in later years and some of the
native stones were replaced with the new |
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modern cut stones. |
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notes: ( ) were added for
clarification, from other sources |
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DC IMAGE |
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MARKED GRAVES: |
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James Madison |
Sisson |
4 Oct 1831 |
23-Nov-1900 |
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(s/o Ludlow & Catherine Sisson, a Civil War Veteran, his
marker was replaced with a Confederate marker in 1995) |
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Eliza(beth) J(ane)
Coon |
Sisson |
7 Mar 1834 |
13 Sep 1884 |
(w/o James Sisson) |
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(d/o
Samuel Coon & Lydia Garst) |
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(Nancy) Catherine |
Coon |
7 Nov 1837 |
5 Dec 1897 |
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(d/o Samuel Coon & Lydia Garst) |
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Luemma Hester |
Sisson |
15 Apr 1866 |
22 Feb 1884 |
(d/o James & Eliza
Sisson) |
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Ballard Madison |
Sisson |
15 Apr 1866 |
21 Oct 1895 |
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(s/o James & Eliza Sisson-twin to Luemma) |
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Andrew William |
Boone |
3 Sep 1830 |
4 Sep 1886 |
(s/o Jacob Boone &
Rachel Kessler |
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(Franklin Co VA) |
(Floyd Co VA) |
of Franklin Co VA) |
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Margaret Clementine (Mason) |
Boone |
2 Jan 1851 |
17 Aug 1894 |
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(Roanoke Co VA) |
(Floyd Co VA) |
(d/o Samuel Mason &
Lydia Garst) |
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(2nd w/o
Andrew Boone, half sister to the four
Coon sisters) |
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George C(lifton) |
McNeil |
12 Jan 1892 |
17 May 1894 |
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(s/o James Ireson
McNeil & Margaret Clementine Mason Boone-2nd marriage for both) |
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KNOWN BURIALS WITH UNMARKED GRAVES: |
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Ludlow B(ranham) |
Sisson |
3 Feb 1797 |
12 Mar 1886 |
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(Rockbridge Co) |
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(s/o Stanley Sisson and Catrin/Catherine
Kirkwood. Stanley was born in Orange Co VA) |
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Catherine Grisso |
Sisson |
1796 |
after 1870 |
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(w/o
Ludlow, d/o Mathias Grisso, an immigrant from
Italy, who married Elizabeth Greenlee of Lancaster PA) |
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John H |
Sisson |
25 Apr 1818 |
1891 |
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(s/o
Ludlow & Catherine) |
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Hannah Wilson |
Sisson |
1817 |
1895 |
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(w/o
John H Sisson) |
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David Sloan |
Sisson |
25 Nov 1833 |
23-Nov-1915 |
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(son of Ludlow & Catherine, his grave was marked with a
Confederate marker in 1996, after it was identified |
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by his grandson, Raymond T Sisson.
David was the husband of Sarah Magdalene Coon Sisson, who was |
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born 2 Jan 1841 died 18 Feb 1937.
She was buried in Wheatland Cemetery in Botetourt County, VA, due to |
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inclement weather at the time of her death.) |
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Edna Ann |
Coon |
abt 1843 |
bef 1929 |
(d/o Samuel Coon &
Lydia Garst) |
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Thomas |
Sisson |
1873 |
1889 |
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(s/o
David & Magdalene) |
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