LESTER-WHITLOCK CEMETERY
ON SIMMONS FARM ON RT. 8, NORTH, FLOYD, VA.
Contributed by Kat Fulcher - E-mail - fulcher@gdsys.net
(a.k.a."Lester Cemetery #5) (List based on 1960 and 1990 observations--Cemetery no longer exists--This is a "Work in Progress")
 

Permelia P. Whitlock wife of:
J. A. Whitlock
(aka "Jennie" Lester, d/o William T. Lester)
1-3-1861 - 10-24-1915
 

Joseph Albert Whitlock
4-5-1858 - 12-19-1928
 

William Terry Lester
(s/o John Lester II, brother of John Lester III, father of Permilia Lester
Whitlock)
6-18-1818 - 3-1-1890
 

Mary Simmons wife of William T. Lester
2-20-1824 - 12-11-1887
 

John Lester II
(son of John Lester I, father of John III and William T. Lester)
Died 9-21-1851 age 75 years (b.1775)
 

Mary Ann "Polly" Terry-Lester,
(d/o Josiah Terry and wife of John Lester II)
 

John Lester III
(s/o John Lester II, father of Virginia Lester Shelor Fulcher, Matilda Lester
Pugh and Lucretia Lester)
11-1-1808 - 1852 age 44 yr. 5 mo.
 

Mary Gardner-Lester,
(d/o James Gardner & Elizabeth Ava Sigler and wife of John W. Lester III)
 

George Taylor Shelor (s/o Jacob Shelor & Annie Tuggle)
(1st husband of Virginia Lester--probably only headstone was here, moved when
another cemetery was destroyed)
8-12-1822 - 7-23-1862 (died of measles during Civil War)
 

Virginia Ann Lester Shelor Fulcher
(d/o John Lester III, 1st husband Geo. T. Shelor, 2nd husband, Madison P.
Fulcher)
1836 - 1900
 

Elizabeth Shelor Altizer (Daughter of Virginia Lester and Geo. T. Shelor)
3-28-1852 - 6-26-1876
 

Minnie Fulcher (d/o Virginia Lester and Madison Fulcher)
10-10-1874 2-24-1880
 

Nancy Eller
(w/o George Eller and mother of Virginia Shelor Fulcher's daughter in law,
Virginia Eller)
7-11-1824 4/05/1904
 

Lyda May Eller
(d/o David Lewis Eller and Belle Brammer, grandaughter of Nancy Eller)
11-24-1889 1-7-1891
 

Lucretia E. Lester
(d/o John Lester III, sister of Virginia Lester Shelor Fulcher and Matilda
Lester Pugh)
1-5-1840 - 11-21-1873
 

Matilda E. Lester Pugh wife of Tazewell Pugh
(d/o John Lester III, sister of Lucretia Lester and Virginia Lester Shelor
Fulcher)
10-14-1848 - 7-15-1875
 

"Infant son of Tas and Icie Reed"
1-19-1919
 

Bernard Hatcher
3-20-1878 - 1881
 

Hilley Lester
10-10-1820 - 7-11-1884