Tombstone Tuesday: The Sullivans

Tombstone Tuesday is a daily prompt at Geneabloggers which asks bloggers to create a post including an image of a gravestone of one or more ancestors; it may also include a brief description of the image or the ancestor.

At Coverstone Cemetery
Shenandoah, Virginia 2011

My great-grand aunt Laura Jollett Sullivan and her husband William J. Sullivan are buried in Coverstone Cemetery (formerly the EUB Church Cemetery) in Shenandoah, Virginia, along with most of her brothers and sisters, as well as four of their five daughters.

SULLIVAN

William J.                             Laura E.

Jan. 13, 1866                       May 30, 1865

May 22, 1942                      July 30, 1947

Close by are the tombstones of their daughters Floral and husband Cletus Merica, 

MERICA 

Cletus H.              Floral M.

Feb. 23, 1899      Mar. 4, 1895

Oct. 11, 1971      Feb. 14, 1987

Pearl and husband Clyde Strole, 

Pearl Strole

June 9, 1891

May 29, 1986

Minnie and husband John Wesley Breeden, 

BREEDEN

Minnie B.             John W.

1887 – 1952         1879 - 1961

and Elta and husband Lewis Farrar.

FARRAR

Lewis G.               Elta G.

1898 – 1970         1899 - 1991

Leota is buried with her husband Forrest Racey and his second wife in Winchester, Virginia.

RACEY

Forrest S.             Leota Sullivan

June 9, 1902       Dec.  24, 1901

June 8, 1988       Jan. 28, 1981

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