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Incorporated 1966

Radford Family Cemetery


Location: East of Walker Street between 4th and 5th at end of alley
Owner: owned by City; closed to further use
Size: 50' x 50'

Obelisk Marker: (Located on West side of cemetery)
John Blair Radford Elizabeth Campbell Radford
son of daughter of
William and Elizabeth Moseley Radford Maj. John McCanless and Jane Kent Taylor

Married at Rockford Pulaski Co. Va
5-31-1836

Headstones: (Facing from West to East and reading North to South)

  • Lt. Minnie Adams Fitting USNC Nov 21, 1912- daughter of Radford and Mancye Adams
  • Richard H. Adams 1 Lieut. 51 Ala. Partisan Rangers C.S.A. Oct. 8. 1896
  • Dr. John Blair Radford b. at Woodburne, Bedford Co. Va. 4-26-1813 d. 6-30-1872
  • Elizabeth Campbell Adams 11-17-1847 2-22-1930 w. of Capt. Richard H. Adams d. of Dr. J. B. Radford a member of the family for which the City of Radford was named
  • Mary McCanless Yancey b. 4-28-1851 d. 12-7-1885
  • Jane Kent Moore b. 5-15-1845 d. 8-2-1867
  • Lieut. William Moseley Radford b. 8-12-1840 killed at the battle of Williamsburg, Va. 5-5-1862
  • Col. John Taylor Radford b. 6-4-1838 killed Cedarville, Va. 11-12-1864
  • Elizabeth Campbell Radford b. at Rockford, Pulaski Co. Va. 5-30-1820 d. 12-17-1886
  • Ann Rebecca Wharton b. 8-15-1843 d. 4-15-1890
  • Gen. G. C. Wharton C.S.A. aged 82 years erected by Wharton Camp C. V. sister and niece Sept. 29, 1918
  • William Radford Wharton Capt. U.S.A. 6-11-1864 5-16-1918 "He that believeth in me hath everlasting life."
  • Sue Heth Wharton 8-23-1868 5-17-1958 loving wife of Wm L. W. beloved mother of Heth, Ann and William
  • William Radford Wharton, Jr. 3-3-1904 5-27-1990 beloved husband of Evelyn loving father of Sally and Sue
  • Ernest de Grey Clements b. London, England 10-2-1887 d. 3-29-1922
  • Ann Wharton Swaen von Poederoyen 1894 - 1979 loving mother of Karl Swaen von Poederoyen 1929 - 1974
  • Hugo A. E. Swaen von Poederoyen 1894 - 1948

    Unmarked graves in NW corner: [no family members]

  • D. Morgan and wife - instead of burial in the pauper's cemetery
  • A two month old baby of a couple rooming at Arnheim, the Radford home
    According to a 1923 newspaper article, a slave cemetery was discovered on the NE corner of the original J. B. Radford land holdings. At that time there were no longer any markers. Efforts are being made to obtain more information.

    Compiled by B.E.Spillman

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