Susong Cemetery


This is a picture of the Susong Cemetery in Bristol County,(Washington Co.), VA. It was shared by another researcher of the Susong line. Thank you ever so much.
I don't know which Cemetery it is, as I found two Susong Cemeteries.
Bristol County,(Washington Co.), VA
Coke County,Tennessee is called Huff-Susong Cemetery.
                               Juanita took a picture of  tombstone of  Andrew Susong.  It reads:

                        ANDREW SUSONG
                            BORN  OCT. 6, 1892 
                           OF THE MARRIAGE  BETWEEN
                               NICHOLAS SUSONG AND ELIZABETH McCAULEY
                            DIED OCT 1, 1877
                                AGED 84 YEARS 11 MO. 25 DAYS
                           "HE TOOK THEE FROM A WORLD OF CARE
                          IN EVERLASTING BLISS TO SHARE"

                            SUSAN BALL
                        WIFE OF ANDREW SUSONG
                                 BORN MAY 23, 1799.  DIED APRIL 18, 1881
                              AGED 81 YEARS  10 MO.  25 DAYS
                           OUR MOTHER LIES UNDER GROUND
                           THE DEAREST FRIEND WE EVER FOUND;
                                     AND THROUGH THE LORD'S UNSOUNDED LOVE,
                     WE HOPE TO MEET IN REALMS ABOVE
To Susong Line
To My Vineyard of Surnames
To My Genealogy Office
BRISTOL Tennessee/Virginia A History - 1852 – 1900

By V. N. (Bud) Phillips

Excerpted…. mentions of the Susong family

SUSONG Cemetery Page 450 – 451

SUSONG Cemetery Began on Christmas day 1818 with the burial of Margaret Baggs Susong, the 47 year old wife of Jacob Susong. Bristol old-timers have told tales of how it was a strange day, with alternating sunshine, snow showers, and thunder and lightning; many of the more superstitious professed grave concerns about the “unusual manifestations of the elements.”

The Susong family arrived in the area in 1794, on the day that General Evan Shelby as buried. They set up homestead on Baker’s Creek, locating their “mansion house” about where Eckerd’s Drug Store now stands in the Little Creek Shopping Mall. (The old homestead spring now forms pools of water at the entrance of the mall parking lot.)

Jacob Susong had chosen the site on the ridge behind his home for a family cemetery, and that is where he buried his wife on that strange Christmas day. Other members of the family are buried there and it finally became a public cemetery.