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Levi Edwards Cemetery - Fancy Gap, VA


Donna at Levi Edwards Grave May, 2000

LEVI EDWARDS WAS MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER - Born May, 1816. Died October, 1900. He was buried on the Albert Tate Mtn. near the end of the Old Elk Spur Road in Fancy Gap, VA. There were only 4-5 grave stones there. Two were his babies by second wife, Virginia "Ginny" Tate Edwards. One was a son, Jesse. The land is now owned by granddaugher, Elsie "Gladys" Goins.

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Donna and Rodney after the stone was set October 2000


In 1998 family members found the gravesite of Levi. In 1999 I, Donna Edwards, with the help of Rodney Johnson, went to Blacksburg, VA to VA Tech. and found the Civil War Records in order to get a Stone. Rodney and I cleaned the underbrush from the graves in the summer. Rodney, his daughter-Whitney (she also is a descendent of Levi) and I went back in the fall and again cut the underbrush and larger trees. The stone was then set by Rodney, my brothers (Tim & Ted) and myself in October, 2000. With Ida(mama) and Karen Edwards( Tim's wife) watching. THIS STONE WAS SET ONE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF LEVI - DIED OCTOBER 1900.

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Donna cleaning

Rodney found one of the stone markers in the underbrush

Tim and Ted mixing morter to fill in around the stone with Karen watching

Ida Edwards watching as the stone was set

My Line to Levi: Donna Kay Edwards (me), Ida Mae Edwards Edwards (mama), John Walter Edwards (grandfather) - Levi Edwards (great-grandfather).

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Rodney, Donna and Whitney

Whitney, school year 2000-01

Whitney's Line to Levi: Whitney Allyn Johnson, Tammy Parks Johnson (mother), Willie June Edwards (grandmother), Oscar Edwards (great grandfather), George Washington "Wash" Edwards (great great grandfather) - Levi Edwards (great great great grandfather).

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FAMILY PHOTOS

Leevalia, Levi, John & Ginny Edwards


Levi with a hat.                       And Levi without a hat