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Nunley Cemetery, Mendota Road, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia

This cemetery is on the land that was owned by Charles (Pet) and Harriet Branch Nunley.  It is still owned by one of their descendants, Lonnie D. Nunley, Jr.

The first three pictures here were sent by Lonnie Nunley, Jr. May 31, 2001
	2000	Lonnie Nunley working on cleaning up the cemetery, which had become overgrown in wild Lilly and other weeds.  He writes that it was a big job that "took about three weeks (spare time when it wasn't raining or snowing) to get rid of the wild Lilly"  Had four pick-up truck loads of Lilly to remove.  Lonnie tore down the old fence and built a new one.
	2000	View of the new fence
	2000	Photograph of Lonnie's grandmother Harriet "Hattie" Branch Nunley's stone.
The first rest of the photographs were taken by Alice Gander on two separate visits.
	August 2000	Harriet Frances (Hattie) Branch Nunley tombstone (February 25, 1952 - May 11, 1919).  After Hattie died, her husband Charles (Pet) married Lacy Pendleton and they moved to Marion County, Missouri.  They are buried in the Andrew Chapel Cemetery. This photograph shows a bit of the wild Lilly in the cemetery before Lonnie cleaned it up.
	March 19, 2001	View of the Nunley Cemetery looking south.  North Fork of the Holston River is in the background.  This photograph was taken after Lonnie cleaned up the cemetery and it looked great!
	March 19, 2001	View of the Nunley Cemetery looking north.  The Nunley home can be seen through the trees on the right.  Hattie Branch Nunley's tombstone is in the far corner.
	March 19, 2001	View of Hattie Branch Nunley's tombstone on the left and the Nunley home through the trees.
	March 19, 2001	View of Hattie Nunley's tombstone facing east.
	March 19, 2001	View of Hattie Nunley's tombstone facing south.  (This is the same side as shown in the first photo at the top of the page.)  With the morning sun coming in it was not good lighting to get photos of these two sides where the writing is.  The writing on the stone is still legible but did not photograph in these lighting conditions.

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