Pine Grove
United Methodist
Church Cemetery
aka
Ledford Cemetery


Thank you to Ann King Kent
for contributing her survey of this cemetery.

Row #1

Birdine Ledford
September 27, 1896 (?7)
June 2, 1989
** Birdie- wife of Theodore Ledford**


Theodore C. Ledford
October 30, 1888
November 17, 1979
**husband of Burdine Ledford**


Reva Bolden Ledford
July 28, 1896
April 2, 1935


Joseph D. Ledford
December 23, 1864
November 10, 1932


Barbara Jane Ledford
August 4, 1867
October 22, 1941

Row #2


George Newton Ledford
October 9, 1889
June 12, 1976
**husband of Inez Duckett**


Inez Duckett Ledford
March 14, 1889
June 21, 1966
**wife of George Newton Ledford**


Military Marker
Woodfin Ledford
November 14, 1913
July 29, 1980
Captain, US Army


Annie Mae ? Ledford
April 26, 1921
no death date


Row #3


Hand Painted Stone
Green
no birth date
no death date


Willie M. Greene
no birth date
April 14, 1913
Son


Rebecca A. Greene
no birth date
October 13, 1926
Mother


Riley Greene
January 7, 1865
December 15, 1939
**Ran a water/grist mill on a creek across from the cemetery**


Vernon B. Greene
January 14, 1896
September 4, 1957


Infant Marker
Ethel T. Greene
March 13, 1900
March 6, 1903


Row #4


Thomas E. Ledford
January 21 (?22), 1882
April 11, 1969
**husband of Harriett “Hattie” Duckett


Hattie Duckett Ledford
no birth date
no death date
**wife of Thomas E. Ledford**


Double Headstone
Ledford
Steve S. Ledford
August 5, 1909
June 13, 1987
Dorothy H. Ledford
December 19, 1919
no death date
married: June 8, 1940


Hand Painted Stone
Green
no birth date
no death date


Hand Painted Stone
Green
no birth date
no death date


Thomas Doyle Ledford
June 4, 1939
June 17, 1986
**son of Glenn & Geneva T. Ledford**


Hand Painted Stone
Ledford
no birth date
no death date


Hand Painted Stone
Ledford
no birth date
no death date


Row #5


3 unknown/unmarked graves


Row #6


Sophia McElroy Green
September 22, 1883
August 20, 1965


James Baxter Green
October 19, 1878
December 9, 1958
** husband of Jesse Bolden Green**


Jesse Bolden Green
October 19, 1878
October 21, 1909
**wife of James Baxter Green**


Infant Marker
Twin sons
of
JB & Jesse Green
born & died:
February 21, 1906


Infant Marker
Ethel L. Green
daughter of
JB & Jesse Green
April 22, 1899
May 17, 1901


Infant Marker
Robert D. Green
son of
JB & Jesse Green
February 17, 1919
May 11. 1920


Infant Marker

Son of
JB & Jesse Green
born & died:
July 15, 1926


Brack John Green
April 15, 1925
December 21, 1986


Dorothy Ledford Green
February 4, 1933
June 15, 1985
**daughter of Glenn & Geneva T. Ledford**


Infant Marker
Jonathan Green
October 27, 1973
October 30, 1979


Row #7


Military Marker
Dewey C. Smith
May 20 1920
April 15, 1988
Pvt. US Army WWII


Mildred Ledford Smith
no birth date
July 31, 1988


Row #8


John Cordell Ledford
December 29, 1891
October 29, 1956
**husband of Addie Davis**


Addie Ledford
no birth date
no death date
**wife of John Cordell Ledford**


Jack Ledford
no birth date
no death date


Hand Painted Stone
Ledford
no birth date
no death date


Hand Painted Stone
Ledford
no birth date
no death date


Hand Painted Stone
Ledford
no birth date
no death date


1 unknown/unmarked


Row #9


 Hand Painted Stone
Mooney
no birth date
no death date


1 unknown/unmarked


Hand Painted Stone
Mooney
no birth date
no death date


Hand Painted Stone
Mooney
no birth date
no death date


Hand Painted Stone
Mooney
no birth date
no death date


Hand Painted Stone
Mooney
no birth date
no death date


Hand Painted Stone
Mooney
no birth date
no death date


Infant Marker
Faye Pauline
daughter of
E.J. & May Mooney
October 25, 1937
November 10, 1937


Juanita Ledford
September 10, 1936
June 28, 1972
Daughter


Gertrude Ledford
October 10, 1910
March 13, 1984
Mother


Row #10


Infant Marker
Howard Dale Ledford
son of
Harold & Kathryne Ledford
October 22, 1957
October 22, 1957


Glenn Ledford
March 16, 1901
June 1, 1978
**husband of Geneva Trantham**


Geneva T. Ledford
December 3, 1913
July 30, 2004
**wife of Glenn Ledford**

Geneva Trantham Ledford Born in Haywood County on Dec. 3, 1913
Departed on Jul. 30, 2004 and resided in Waynesville, NC.

Waynesville—Geneva Trantham Ledford, age 90, formerly of Hyatt Creek, died Friday, July 30, 2004 at Silver Bluff Nursing Home.
She was a native of Haywood County and was the daughter of the late Thomas and Ellen Russell Trantham. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Glenn Ledford, who died in 1978; one daughter, Dorothy Green, three sons, Harold, Doyle, and Kenneth "Buster" Ledford, two sisters, seven brothers, and six grandchildren. She was a member of Belmont Baptist Church.
She is survived by two daughters, Bobbie R. Rich and her husband, Leroy of Waynesville, and Betty Justice and her husband, Thomas of Jonathan Creek; one son, James Ledford of Jonathan Creek; and one brother, Homer Trantham of Fines Creek; 20 grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren, and 15 great-great grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, August 2, 2004 in the Waynesville chapel of Wells Funeral Homes. The Reverend G. W. Jameson and Reverend Claude Conard will officiate. Burial will follow at Piney Grove Cemetery in the Fines Creek Community. The family will receive friends from 7:00 until 9:00 p.m. Sunday, August 1, 2004, at the funeral home. At other times, the family will be at the home of the daughter, Bobbie Rich, 700 Old Balsam Road, Waynesville. The grandsons will serve as pallbearers

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Infant Marker
Kenneth Ledford
"Buster"
September 29, 1931
June 30, 1933
**son of Glenn & Geneva T. Ledford**


Hand Painted Stone
Rogers
no birth date
no death date


Hand Painted Stone
Rogers
no birth date
no death date


Wiley Rastus Ledford
January 2, 1887 (?8)
January 8, 1966
**husband of Genia Cook**


Genia Cook Ledford
December 1, 1886
October 4, 1963
**wife of Wiley Rastus Ledford**


 Row #11

Julie Rogers
July 6, 1861
May 24, 1912


R.W.S. Rogers
March 27, 1853
October 5, 1911


Homer J. Rogers
December 9, 1893
August 11, 1952


Iva Duckett Rogers
April 18, 1893
February 3, 1953


 Row #12

Cauly Trantham
June 6, 1916
November 9, 1987


Gladys Ledford Trantham
August 18, 1916
no other dates on marker


Infant Marker
Helen Frances Trantham
June 27, 1936
October 16, 1936


James Ledford
"Jimmy"
no birth date
no death date
**information not on stone:
born: August 8, 1856
died: August 25, 1943**


Charlotte Estella Rogers Ledford
"Lottie"
no birth date
no death date
**information not on stone:
born: June 22, 1855
died: December 28, 1936**


Zebulon Vance Ledford
January 6, 1876
October 30, 1968