Groves Cemetery
The Groves Cemetery is located on the old farm of Jacob Groves off Vineyard Gap Road in Roane County, Geary District. It is located at the peak of a hill looking down on the old farmhouse where my grandmother grew up. Below the farmhouse in a hollow is the old Rock Bridge that trucks went over to go to the gas wells at the turn of the century. Included are pictures of the rock bridge to help located the Groves Cemetery. (picture 1 picture 2)
Jacob & Ann Francis Parker Groves brought their family to Roane Co. from Monroe Co. between 1850-1860 per census info. Jacob divided the family farm between his sons. James B. Groves owed the part of the family farm where the cemetery is located. According to my grandmother (g-grandaughter of Jacob) Jacob is not buried in the Groves Cemetery, but at an unidentified site on the old farm.
Grave sites:1) James Bratton Groves b.9-21-1835 d. 6-20-1921
2) Martha Susan Patton Groves b. 11-18-1844 d. 10-17-1912 wife of James Bratton Groves (picture of the plot)
3) Ellis VanBuren Groves 1876-1959 son of James B.& Martha Groves
4) Emzy Catharine Gandee Groves 1872-1958 wife of Ellis V. Groves
5) Daisy Myrtle Groves b. 7-25-1910 d. 7-23-1912 daughter of Ellis & Emzy Groves
6) Infant Son Groves b&d 3-16-1913 son of Ellis & Emzy GrovesNOTE: there are more buried there than what is recorded.
Special thanks to Rosemary Petersen <rojo@iquest.net> for supplying this information.
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