AKERS – TURMAN CEMETERY

On Laurel Branch Road (719) about 1 ½ miles off U.S. 221

Left onto a private driveway to curve and it’s on the left in a grove of pines

Copied in March 1995

by Archie & Phyllis Sumner

 

 

Wife of E. B. Hensley                                    23 Oct 1870    13 Jan 19??

 

Floyd Akers                                                    1862              age 12 years

 

Elizabeth Akers                                               28 Jun 1882     age 55 years

 

Jud George Turman                                        30 Jun 1839   age 48 years

 

Sarah Turman                                                  Feb 1840        age 41 years (?)

 

Robert L. Weeks                                             20 Aug 1830   17 May 1906

 

Sallie  wife of Robert Weeks                         12 Sep 1825    22 Apr 1891

                                                                        23 Jul 1890     ????

 

Samuel W. Slusher                                          24 Oct 1875 or

                                                                        23 Aug 1876   age 26

 

Barbara Whitlock                    Age 59            1829                12 Dec 1888     

 

 

The Sumners had described this as a large cemetery in an open pasture field.  Dorraine Phillips and Genevieve C. Starkey visited this 29 May 2007, with directions from Lester Weddle, and we found the pines surrounding it.  We did not locate all the graves listed by the Sumners, and were uncertain of some of the dates due to time and erosion.  There are several graves marked with rocks only.

 

Cemetery is completely overgrown. 

There are rocks marking other graves.