Riverside Cemetery

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Information submitted by Elsie Richardson; email: JRichar385@aol.com

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!

Office Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9:00-4:30, SAT. 9:00 – 2:00

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

submitted by

Ronald L Forehand

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)

Submitted by: John Creekmore

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 in Norfolk, Va. 1942.

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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Submitted by: Ronald Forehand

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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Submitted by: Sherry Etheridge

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

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