>Hi Clark, > > Thanks for your message. Do you remember where this cemetery is >located in relation to Roanoke? Also, do you happen to remember if >there were any Rice family members buried there? I'm looking for >the burial location for Nathaniel Rice, whom I think was a neighbor >to your Blake ancestors in southwestern Randolph County. > > Thanks! > > David > Dear David: There are no Rice headstones in the Blake Cemetery. To get there, drive 1.6 miles north of Roanoke on Co. Rd. 2080 to intersection with Hickory Rd. Go left here for about 0.3 miles and park in front of gate on right hand side of road, near a shed. The cemetery is in a grove of trees about 200 yards north of gate. This was the old Henry Blake farm, now owned by Eddie Meissen. I don't see Nathaniel Rice's name on 1876 land ownership map for Randolph Co. He probably was just west of Henry's property in Howard Co. Rice Patterson, as you probably know, was another landowner near here and he was adm. of Henry Blake's estate. I wonder if he was named for a Rice relative? Clark Blake --