RIVERSIDE MEMORIAL PARK, NORFOLK, VIRGINIA
(Partial listing) Updated 05/17/05
This latest update includes names from Diane Renfrow and Bob Simpson. Elsie, as well all of our fellow researchers, appreciate their efforts in adding to this indispensable database.
Thank you all!
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The cemetery is located about ½ mile west of the intersection of Indian River Road (Route 407) and Wilson Road. The cemetery is located on the right after you pass this intersection. This area is known as Campostella and is located between South Norfolk (now part of City of Chesapeake) and the City of Norfolk.
Elsie, thank you for taking the time and effort documenting and submitting these records to our website. They are a great addition and very much appreciated by so many of our fellow researchers.
Thank you
Family Listings for Riverside Memorial Park
Submitted by: Marjory Blake Palmer
George Herbert Blake [ Buddy] June 16,1951 He was drowned,at the age of 9.
Submitted by: Ray Gaskins 09/2006
Martha A. Coward Gaskins 4/1866-1/15/1935 (Wife of Major Bryant Gaskins, 1873-1956, who is buried at Blackwater Baptist Church in Virginia Beach beside his 2nd wife)
Submitted by: Mary Bier Wilson 01/02/2006
Name Birth date Died
KIGHT, Thomas Wesley, Sr. 02-Oct-1876 18-Mar-1964 WILSON, Angeronia L. 7-Mar-1877 6-Sep-1944 (WIFE OF THOMAS W. KIGHT) KIGHT, Elmer Wilson 29-May-1905 2-Feb-1983 (son of Thomas & Angeronia Wilson Kight)
KIGHT, Surry William, Sr. 13-Dec-1897 2-Sep-1983 WILLIAMS, Lillie Bell 26-May-1901 2-Jan-1931 (1st wife of Surry Kight, Sr.) SWAIN, Minnie E. 27-Jul-1905 25-Jul-1983 (2nd wife of Surry KIGHT, Sr)
WILSON, Rufus Leon 2-Nov-1894 23-Sep-1972 JONES, Susie Virginia 15-Nov-1897 14-Sep-1949 (wife of Rufus Leon Wilson) KIGHT, Thomas Wesley, Jr. 15-Jul-1899 24-Jul-1984 KIGHT, Elmer Wilson, Jr. 5-Apr-1926 ??-Apr-1983 BEAMON, Eunice 15-Dec-1899 8-Oct-1965 (wife of Thomas Kight, Jr.) SAWYER, Henry Preston 31-Dec-1877 5-Jun-1962 WILSON, Elizabeth 15-Dec-1887 16-Feb-1953 (Wife of Henry Preston Sawyer) WILSON, William Clarence 18-Jun-1918 4-Aug-1998 (son of Rufus & Susie) WILSON, John D. 2-Apr-19?? 3-Oct-1999 (son of Rufus & Susie)
ALBERTSON, William 31-Jan-1917 ??-Apr-1979 KIGHT, Iola 6-Mar-1921 ??-Feb-1975 (wife of William Albertson)
POWERS, Ronald Gray 31-Oct-1932 11-Dec-1932 (son of Colin Powers & Ethel Kight Powers)
MUNDEN, Joe Whilman 17-May-1920 15-Apr-1961 KIGHT, Charlotte Wilma 6-May-1925 2-May-1997 (Wife of Joe Whilman Munden) SAWYER, Lou 7-Jun-1907 25-Dec-1985 (wife of Milton Jones)
SAWYER, Louise 30-Sep-1878 ??-Oct-1943 (wife of Fred Forbes)
WILLIAMS, Nathaniel 1876 ??-Jan-1967 SAWYER, Agnes Delena 13-Feb-1889 ??-Aug-1958 (wife of Nathaniel Williams)
SAWYER, Margaret 1865 1937 (wife of Etheridge Jones)
Submitted by Alice Sawyer
1. Joseph Archibald Sawyer May 22, 1861 – June 23, 1927 Safe in the arms of Jesus
2. Glovinia Maine (Sawyer) Sawyer Wife of J. A. Sawyer 1868 – 1929 Asleep in Jesus
3. (The daughter of Joseph Archie & Glovinia “Manie”) Mary Delena (Sawyer) Sawyer July 12, 1893 – Jan. 31, 1959
4. (and her husband) Peter Linwood Sawyer July 15, 1891 – July 5, 1968″
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This information is submitted by: Dorothy Forehand Wise-Kincaide
Riverside Cemetery, Norfolk, VA
Family Members
FOREHAND (large stone) Magnolia Section
J.T.Forehand 1874-1962 Irene Gard Forehand (wife of J.T.above) 1876-1935 W.J.Forehand (son of J.T above) 1897-1927 Isedora M. Forehand (wife of W.J. above) 1901-1970
Buried at the foot of William J Forehand is the
daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William J Forehand Jr.
Shearin Hope Forehand
b: January 25, 1948
d: January 26, 1948
Others________
John F. Forehand (brother to J.T. above) 1877-1965
George W. Forehand (brother to J.T. above) 1886- 1950
William R. Forehand (brother to J.T. above) 1883-1959
Annie Sue Forehand (wife of Wm. R. above) 1896-1935
L. Paul Forehand (son 0f J.T. above) 1905- 1970
James T. Forehand II (s/o L.Paul above) 1941-1958
Thomas P. Newbern 1894-1974
Bertha Mae Newbern (d/o J.T. Forehand above) 1901-1981
Howell Plot Irene S. Howell (2nd wife of J.T. Forehand) 1894-1979
Wilbur Howell (1st husband of Irene Howell above) 1891-1934
Wallace Plot
Ella Toms Barclift wife of Geo. B. Parker 1855-1928
Olive Parker (d/o Ella B. Parker above) 1880-1956
Robert L. Wallace ( husband of Olive Parker above) 1882-1972
Children of the above
Bertha R. Wallace 1909-1996
Robert P Wallace 1912-1991
Oscar C. Wallace 1908-1987
Eleanor Jennings Wallace (wife of Robert P. Wallace) 1915-1991
George W. Parker (s/o Ella B. Parker) 1883-1953
Waverly E. Parker 1889-1934
Nellie R. Shreeves (d/0 of Waverly Parker above) 1918-1987
Mary M. Crosby (wife of Waverly Parker) 1889-1934
George V. Crosby , Sr.( 2nd husband of Mary M. Crosby above) age 66 1958
Jones Plot (Magnolia Sec.)
Walter R. Jones 1920-1993
Ophelia M. Jones (sister to Isedora Forehand above) 1921-1998
Miller Plot
Henry P. Miller (brother to Isedora M. Forehand above) Nov.4, 1919 Dec. 3, 1981
Geneva E.. Miller (wife of Henry Miller) Sept. 1921 May 1979
Stewart plot (Large Stewart Stone)
Ralph Frederick Stewart Sept. 1906 July 1971
Alise Miller Stewart (sister to Isedora Forehand above) Sept. 5, 1906 May 17, 1974
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This information is submitted by: Margaret Ann Forbes Piercy
Margaret Ann Hughes Forbes. b: Sept 23,1875, d: August 25, 1951
John Pugh Forbes, b: March 6, 1883, d: January 16, 1963
Adelia Pugh Forbes, b: August 8, 1860, d: September 29,1940.
Charles J. Forbes b: November 2, 1912, d: September 12,1941
Joseph T. Forbes, b: July 22,1914 , d: July 29, 1964
Maude T. Forbes, b: December 4, 1890, d: June 8, 1972
Ouinton C. Forbes b:1889, d:1946
Roscoe Forbes, b:1891, d:1979
Kathryn . Forbes, b:1907, d:1989
Lillie B. Forbes, b: November 12, 1883, d: December 31,1954
Fred S. Forbes, b: April 30, 1906, d: March 21,1961.
This is one stone, Forbes, Fred P.b:1876, d:1954, Lula S. b:1878, d:1943.
William M Hughes, b: June 22,1882, d: February 7, 1951,
wife Maggie Toxey Hughes, b: December 23, 1887, d: October 5, 1943
Miscellaneous Graves
Submitted by: Dorothy Forehand Wise-Kincaide
Hiram A Miller Buried 10-25-1947 Age 67
His obituary in Norfolk Va Pilot states he was a native of Camden Co. NC)
William Ira Creekmore, born in Camden Co., NC, in 1874, and died in South Norfolk, Va. in 1924
Copy of the original plot bought by William T. Sawyer, my great grandfather, in 1938 in Riverside. The grounds keeper was very kind to copy the original when I paid a visit recently.
Submitted by: W. Tom. Sawyer
Name: W.T. Sawyer Address: 1509 Indian River Rd.
Section: Wisteria Lot No. 424 Deed No. 1784 Date: 1938
Price: $165.00 Perpetual Care
Name of interred:
Grave No. 1 Emma Estella Sawyer
My insert- Born 19 April 1862, Camden County N.C. (During the Battle of Sawyer’s Lane) Died Norfolk Va. 1937.
2 William Thomas Sawyer Born Camden County N.C. 1854 Died Norfolk, Va.
3 Eva Virginia Sawyer Chappell
4 Jonathan E. Chappell
All graves in the Wisteria section are flat and located toward the Elizabeth River, north side.
The grounds keeper tells me the grave markers are flat in that section for the purpose of easier maintenance.
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Ethel Frost McCartney, wife of Robert Thomas Pendergraft b. June 29, 1878 d.March 11, 1923 Riverside Memorial Cemetery, Cedar Grove Section, Single grave #766 (no headstone)
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Charles C Sawyer 8/28/1878 to 9/17/1937. The burial records for Charles show his birth year as 1880 but the headstone is marked 1878.
wife–Pattie Banks Sawyer 7/12/1892 to 10/29/1962
firstborn–Annie Laura Sawyer 7/4/1917 to 8/28/1919
Naomi Sawyer Whitley 8/22/1928 to 4/12/1995
stepfather to Charles– Samuel Sawyer 4/3/1859 to 9/11/1938
