Radford Family Cemetery
alleyway near Walker Street and behind high school football field
Radford, VA

submitted by Rhonda Smith
photos and additional info  in parenthesis added by Rhonda Smith 2007
click on name to view photo


overview Radford monument


 



 

close up views of large Radford Marker

 John Blair Radford son of William and Elizabeth Moseley Radford
Married at Rockford , Pulaski Co. VA May. 31, 1836
(to Elizabeth Campbell Taylor/City of Radford was named for him. Elizabeth and J. B. had 7 children)

Elizabeth Campbell Radford  daughter of  Maj. John McCanless and Jane Kent Taylor
(Elizabeth's mother, Jane Kent Taylor, was the daughter of Col. Joseph Kent and Margaret "Peggy" McGavock Kent)

Elizabeth Campbell Radford
Born at Rockford, Pulaski Co. VA
May. 30,1820
Dec. 17,1886
E.C.R. footstone

Dr. John Blair Radford
born at Woodburne, Bedford Co. VA
Ap. 26, 1813
Jun. 30,1872
close up view
 

William Radford Wharton, Jr.
Mar. 3,1904
May. 27, 1990
Beloved husband of Evelyn
Loving father of Sally and Sue
(son of  Sue Heth Wharton and William Radford Wharton)

Sue Heth Wharton
Aug. 23,1868
May. 17, 1958
Loving wife of William Radford Wharton
Beloved mother of Heth, Ann and William
(Sue Hammett Heth was the daughter of Stockton Heth and Isabella Hammett Heth)
 

William Radford Wharton
Capt. U.S.A.
Jun. 11, 1864
May.16, 1918
"He that believeth in me hath everlasting life."
W.R.W. footstone
(son of Gabriel Colvin Wharton and Ann Rebecca "Nannie" Radford Wharton)
 

Gen. G. C. Wharton
C.S.A.
aged 82 years
erected by
Wharton Camp C. V.
Sister and Niece
Sept. 29, 1918
G.C.W. footstone
close up view
(Glencoe owner-born 1824 Culpepper County, VA died 1906/
son of John Redd Wharton and Eliza Hansbrough Colvin Wharton/
he married Ann Rebecca "Nannie" Radford daughter of J.B. and Elizabeth Radford)
 

Ann Rebecca Wharton
Aug. 15, 1843
Apr. 15, 1890
A.R.W. footstone
(daughter of J.B. and Elizabeth Radford/wife of G.C. Wharton and they had 4 children)
 

Col. John Taylor Radford
Jun. 4,1838
Killed Cedarville, VA
Nov. 12,1864
close up view
(son of J.B. & Elizabeth Radford)
 

Lieut. William Moseley Radford
Aug. 12, 1840
Killed at the battle of Williamsburg, VA
May. 5,1862
close up view
(son of J.B. & Elizabeth Radford)
 

Jane Kent Moore
May.15,1845
Aug. 2,1867
close up view
(daughter of J.B. & Elizabeth Radford)
 
 

Mary McCanless Yancey
Apr. 28,1851
Dec. 7, 1885
close up view
(daughter of J.B. & Elizabeth Radford)
 
 

Lt. Minnie Adams Fitting
U.S.N.R.
Nov. 21, 1912
Jul. 21, 2006
Daughter of Radford and Mancye Adams
military marker
World War II
 
 

Richard H. Adams
1 Lieut.
51 Ala. Partisan Rangers
C.S.A.
Oct. 8. 1896
(married Elizabeth Campbell Radford daughter of J.B. & Elizabeth Radford/he was son of Richard H. Adams Sr.)
 

Elizabeth Campbell Adams
Nov.17, 1847
Feb. 22, 1930
Wife of Capt. Richard H. Adams
Daughter of   Dr. John B. Radford
A member of the family for which the City of Radford was named
(Elizabeth Campbell Radford Adams AKA Lizzie)

Lucien D. Adams
Jun. 17, 1910
Jun. 21, 2004
Great Grandson of John B. Radford
(double marker with Tommy E. Adams/Lucien Doyle Adams son of Radford Carter Adams and Mancye Doyle Adams)

Tommy E. Adams
Aug. 26, 1919
(pre-need/double marker with Lucien D. Adams)
 

Hugo A. E. Swaen von Poederoyen
1894 - 1948
(husband of Ann Wharton Swaen von Poederoyen)
 

Ann Wharton Swaen von Poederoyen
1894 - 1979
Loving mother of Karl Swaen von Poederoyen
A.W.S.V.P. footstone
(same marker with Karl Swaen von Poederoyen/daughter of William Radford Wharton and Sue Hammett Heth Wharton)

Karl Swaen von Poederoyen
1929 - 1974
(same marker with Ann Wharton Swaen von Poederoyen)

Ernest de Grey Clements
Born London, England
Oct. 2,1887
Mar. 29,1922
E.DEG.C. footstone
 
 
 

 unknown marker #1

 unknown marker #2

 unknown marker #3

According to Mickey Fitting there are three unmarked graves belonging to D. Morgan and his wife and an infant that was rooming at Armheim.
She also stated that there was  a slave cemetery between this cemetery and Arnheim. Exact location has been lost and no markers were known to exist.


 


 

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