The Maxey Cemetery containing the (unmarked) graves of Wal(ter)-Maxey Sr., who died in 1791 and near kin --- is located on the old Maxey plantation on a sloping hillside overlooking Blackwater River in Franklin Co., Virginia. Their remains are to be removed and reinterred on a plot at Mt. Ivy Baptist Church which is a very fitting location as it is in the general vicinity in which they lived and died, and also more accessible to travel. Their peaceful slumbers are being interrupted by the rising waters of Smith Mountain Lake formed by a dam that is being constructed a few miles below by Appalachian Power Company. All expense of plot, removal and reinterment is being taken care of by the Power Company. Descendants of this brave and courageous tribe of Maxeys are scattered in many states now and a few in foreign countries