William Thaxton Family Cemetery

CEMETERY NO. 21

Location & Access

Quadrant
12C
Tax Map ID
162 A 8
Access

Road Side cemetery, enclosed with nice chain link and gated fence. Restoration of this family plot is ongoing by a descendent and History for Liberty.

Condition
Marginally Maintained
Terrain
Level
Other Names

Thaxton/Cundiff Family Cemetery, Thaxton Burial Grounds

Cemetery Survey

Marked Graves
Fieldstones
1
Burial Era
1874 – 1979
Total Suspected
Aerial Survey Map
No map recorded

Survey Notes

Survey Date
05/28/2020
Damage Noted

There are several broken stones with deterioration to inscriptions. There is at least one nearly completely sunken stone along with both obelisks missing the tops of their finials. Many of the older stones appear to have a white cementititous material that was rubbed into the inscriptions along with significant abrasive damage (from a wire brush…?) Damage may appear worse due to general organic growth on markers, but is significant nonetheless.

Notes

There have been several disinterments from this plot including; David Leslie Thaxton (1870-1955) and his wife Ann Henry Nance Thaxton (1881-1975) and children Rubie Sophie Thaxton (1899-1901) and Mary Lena Thaxton (1908-1951,) and they were reinterred in a plot in Greenwood Cemetery on September 21, 1982 with daughter Janie Virginia Thaxton (1912-2010), so perhaps she initiated this move.