Howard Cemetery
Childress (off Hwy 600 take 177 to Piney Woods Road-first driveway on the right.)

submitted by Rhonda Smith
surveyed in 1990 updated 2000
additional info  in parenthesis
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Lee Myers
4/30/1863
7/2/1922

Hannah P. Howard
1738-1810

William Howard
1727-1815

 unmarked grave at his foot also larger marked with writing that can not be read and 2 more unmarked beside this one

(NOTE: William and Hannah's markers are replacement markers.
The original markers were removed and taken to New Mexico by family members. T
here are memorial markers for William and Hannah at Sunset cemetery in Christiansburg)
 

Vivian E. Howard
2/3/1836?
3/24/1896?
Inscription but can't read it.  It is buried in the ground.
Unmarked at her foot and baby beside her

Clyde Howard
5/10/1833
5/11/1839

Anderson Howard
died 12/21/1887
age 72
Unmarked grave at his foot

Stephen Childress
4/30/1822
2/22/1900

R.C. Lucas
1/23/1879
9/12/1903

Sophia Wife of Stephen Childress
(broken stonein 1990/Not certain on the death month and day)
12/25/1819
12/18/1886

"Howard" Catherine Adams Howard
5/19/1829
6/5/1904
(she's buried beside William) slate stone beside her and small unmarked on other side of her

Thomas Stratton Howard
(at the head of Catherine Adams Howard )
7/30/1870
7/18/1942

Grace Palmer Howard
12/18/1873
4/13/1962
(funeral home marker Mrs. Grace P. Howard-Richardson Funeral Home-1990/ Unmarked grave at her head and side)

John W. Lucas
3/14/1831
11/6/1906

Katherine Lucas
2/16/1841
9/9/1938
(family reocrds show dates as October 14, 1844-Spetember 9, 1933)

Lots of little sandstone unmarked graves in corner

Milton W. Reed
8/3/1867
2/11/1926
2 sandstones beside him

General Shafter Buckner
8/17/1915
1/18/1934
2 unmarked beside him and a caved in grave

Lola A. McAlexander
3/24/1826  (maybe 1886?)
7/10/1908

F.P. Howard
4/14/1885
1/20/1906
"M.W.A." on top of his marker

Lacy Anderson Howard
5/14/1867
7/1/1904
(possible the O is incorrect)
On her marker is an emblem with initials FCB

R.M. Howard
6/5/1851
12/14/1917

Josephine Lucas Howard
2/14/1855
3/7/1943
 
 

(Back row)
"our sister"
Myrtle J. Pelter
12/18/1875
8/31/1930

"our brother"
Wilbur P. Pelter
4/1/1884
10/13/1928

"In loving remembrance of our brave gentle and noble mother"
Emily Josephine Pelter
12/6/1850
9/10/1920

Johnnie A. Pelter
12/22/1877 (possible day is wrong)
1/20/1907
My Darling Son

Mattie Ammen Palmer
12/28/1836
11/18/1906
age 70 Mother

Samuel Granville Palmer
5/19/1828
5/16/1912
Father

Pearl Palmer
2/6/1870
9/19/1895

Annie Mae Belle Palmer
11/21/1905
8/2/1906
daughter of R.A. and Annie E. Palmer

Lucile C. Palmer
1900-1983

Ross Stratton Palmer
10/4/1902
12/7/1947

Stell Lois Slenker Palmer
8/7/1894
8/16/1900

Homer Hanford Palmer
2/18/1890
3/26/1959

Lucy Palmer
10/28/1867
3/30/1951

Watt Bullard Palmer
2/9/1866
11/20/1881

Unmarked baby beside Lucy and Watt
 

Additions 2000

Mary Louise  Grayson
10/29/1905
10/28/1908

Joseph Edie Howard
8/10/1849
2/11/1932

Maud Charlton Howard
died 3/29/1888
Age 10 Mos 5 Days

Ella L. Howard
born __ 1852
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