The Moore Cemetery

The Moore Cemetery is located on the north side of Taylor Chapel Rd. (SR 646); approx. 0.25 miles north of the intersection of Taylor Chapel Road and Bainbridge Road (GPS Coordinates: N36.7308374 W81.0213419). Although no church foundation has been found near this cemetery, Violet White has described the location of an early Dell Methodist Church as near this site, so this cemetery may have been associated with that original log church.

The Moore Cemetery fronts on Taylor Chapel Road but is on the hill above road level and surrounded by trees and brush, so it is not visible from the road. The cemetery is "deeded-out" as a separate tract (Grayson County Map No. 24-A-46), but is surrounded by privately owned property. The surrounding property was logged in 2006, but the cemetery tract was left untouched. The cemetery is badly overgrown with briars and brush tangled in trees that have fallen onto the graves. Most of the grave stones have fallen and many are buried under dense ground cover.

The next few pictures give an overall sense of the condition of the cemetery. The picture above is the best part of the cemetery: there is heavy ground cover in this corner, but not the dense brush that covers many of the graves. The stone near the center of this photograph that is leaning against its pedestal is the gravestone for James Kyle Landreth, Ida M. (Boyles) Landreth's first son who died in infancy in 1903. The stone in the photgraph below is of the headstone for Amelia B. (Moore), wife of L.B. Miller, which has narrowly escaped being hit by the tree that fell over it.

Elvira (Atkins) Boyles (b.1839/d.1924) was the daughter of David Atkins (b1806 Grayson Co VA) and Charlotte Jones (b~1806 VA). Elvira Atkins married Joseph Hampton Hackler in 1857 and they had two daughters, Charlotte and Martha Hackler.  Joseph Hackler was a member of the 78th Virginia Militia that was mustered out of Grayson County in 1862 to fight in the Civil War and his death is recorded in 1865. It is unclear how he died, but he is likely a war casualty. On April 27, 1871, Elvira (Atkins) Hackler married James Fletcher Boyles, who had moved to Grayson County from North Carolina.

James F. Boyles born Dec, 16, 1851 died Dec, 16 1912 peacefully thy silent slumber
ELVIRA V. BOYLES Jan 7, 1839 Mar 20 1924 there are no partings in heaven

Elvira Boyles and James Fletcher Boyles had three sons and two daughters. In the 1880 census report, our Grandmother Landreth - Ida (Boyles) Landreth - was recorded as their youngest daughter (b.1880/d1963).

1880 US CENSUS REPORT
District 39, Old Town, Grayson, Virginia

Ida Matilda DeMaul Boyles married William Lee Landreth (b.1877/d.1948) in 1902. William Landreth had relocated to Fries from Carroll County (near Lambsburg) in 1901 to work on construction of the Fries Cotton Mill and the town of Fries.

Willam and Ida Landreth had 12 children.Two sons died in infancy and are buried in the Moore Cemetery: James Kyle Landreth (b/d1903) and Robert Clarion Landreth (b1916/d1917). Willam Lee and Ida Matilda Landreth are buried in the cemetery of the Providence Methodist Chuch near Fries.

LANDRETH GRAVE MARKERS IN MOORE CEMETERY Kyle in back Robert in foreground (Both fallen on their original pedistals)
James K. son of W.L and I.M. LANDRETH BORN (unreadable) 1907   (stone was propped up on pedistal for photgraph)
Robert Son of W.L. and I.M. Landreth born Nov 4 1916 died (?) 1917 (unreadable)

 

Current Working Grave Inventory for the Moore Cemetery

1.(from http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp ) - Elvira Atkins (b.1838) was the daughter of David Atkins (b1806 Grayson Co VA) and Charlotte Jones (b~1806 VA). She married Joseph Hampton Hackler in 1857 and had two daughters, Charlotte and Martha.  Joseph Hackler was a member of the 78th Virginia Militia mustered out of Grayson County in 1862 to fight in the Civil War and he died in 1865 (war casualty?). On April 27, 1871, Elvira Hackler married James Fletcher Boyles, who had moved to Grayson County from North Carolina. Elvira Boyles and James Fletcher Boyles had three sons and two daughters. In the 1880 census, thier youngest daughter, Ida (Grandma Landreth) was 4 months old.  

2.(from conversation with Ellen Landreth in Fries VA on Aug 7, 2007) - Ida Matilda DeMaul Boyles married William L. Landreth. Ida Boyles had a younger sister, Matt Boyles Lafoon (who Ellen enjoyed visiting becasue she continued to smoke a pipe as an elderly lady). Martha Hackler never married and lived in Rural Retreat VA. Guy and Matilda (Tildy) Boyles had 3 daughters (no sons).