Silver

Silver Family Gravesites

My Favorite Gravesite of all time is the mountain-side graveyard in Pensacola, NC in Yancey County, above the cable television business.  It was sectioned over time, with various names to the individual graveyards, but as a whole may be known as the Pensacola Cemetery. It includes a large number of connected family members in all of its sections.  If you park at the base of the hill, (up a road leading beside and behind the Cable TV station, near a pine tree farming area, where a small stand of lovely shaped Christmas trees were standing when I was last there), you can follow the dirt road up the hill to graves above (the Silver Cemetery section), and also follow a dirt road along the base of the stand of trees, off to the right, to the lower section of the graveyard.  If you climb the hill above the lower section, or cross through the brambles down and to the your left as you descend, you can make your way to a gate, into a fenced section that snuggles about middle way up the hill, and another whole section of names is found there. However, again, they are cousins and ancestors if you check them closely.
At the very top, in the Silver section,  there is a line of graves that includes an ancetral grandfather, and two ancestral grandmothers. 1. Jacob William Silver, 2. his wife - Lucinda Jane Rowland Silver, and 3. Sarah Caroline Gardner Roland Roland Rae (Ray), identified on her stone as Sarah C. Rae -(Jasper Roland's wife, who remarried after he died during the Civil War.)  Sarah had been married, when young, to Jasper's uncle, James Rowland A few years after James died, she remarried our ancestral Grandfather, Jasper G. Roland. Not sure how Jasper died just yet, but it appears to be war related.  However, he was most likely buried near their home at the time of his death, possibly where his father was buried. Still searching.  Their son was William Bailous Roland, who is buried in McDowell Co., NC. William Bailous is Hobart Roland's father, my mother's grandfather, etc.  William Bailous Roland married the daughter of J. W. Silver and his wife, Lucinda Jane Rolland.
All this means is _William Bailous's mother Sarah is buried with the parents of his wife: J.W. and Jane Silver.

This is the stone there of J.W. Silver, as he was known, Jacob William formally. J.W. was a preacher like his father for part of his life.  His father is Rev.Thomas Silver, who is buried in Windom, NC at a place called Bear Wallow. J.W.'s mother is Ellender (Nellie) McMahan. J.W.'s wife was Lucinda Jane Rolland Silver. Her stone below reads: Jane Rolland, wife of J.W. Silver. Notice the spelling of her Roland name. Jane's father was John Rolland, her mother was Ellender (Nellie) Riddle. More on them later.

Next is the picture of the stone for Sarah Caroline Gardner Roland Roland Rae, or as on the stone - Sarah C. Rae.  After, our ancestral grandfather, Jasper died, Sarah married a preacher who had lost his wife as well. He had several children, and she had several. Together they had several more.  Jasper's sons are listed on the census record which helped me identify her  as Rolands >William Bailous and his two brothers, James and Thomas Fulton.

Sarah's 3rd and last husband, Reverend Leander Ray, is buried at the base of the hill,  with his first wife, Mary, probably since he died before Sarah.  Sarah was buried when she died with her daughter-in-law's parents.  I tried to upload a clip of thefamily tree, but I am out of photo storage at this time.  (Continuing to try to find a way to make the relationships easy to understand.)

These stones are among a row of stones at the very top of the hill, which is very steep, by the way, to climb.  We were there on a damp day, and I scarcely could climb it or come down it with out slipping and virtually sitting down as I slid.  It is heavily wooded, and these stones cannot be seen from below.