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Rocktown History Cemetery Report For
Michael Baker
About 1750
Birth Date:
Age:
Death Date:
6 Dec 1803
Cemetery Name:
Michael Baker Cemetery
Grave Location:
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1
Section Plot Row Grave
Cemetery Type:
Private
Tombstone Note:
Tombstone
Remarks:
Age 56; Revolutionary War Soldier
Cemetery Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
Source Date Remarks :
1. 1967 2. 1999
Michael Baker Cemetery (was Good Cemetery). Cemetery records printed by J. Robert Swank in 1967. Patricia Turner Ritchie's book "Old Family Cemeteries at Fulks Run, Virginia" published September 1999. Typed 10 Feb 2002 by Lois A. Emswiler.
Cemetery Notes
Patricia Turner Ritchie noted that "This cemetery is no longer visible since the stones were pulled up and the plot farmed over about 50 years ago. The farm was originally owned by Uriah Humble in the 1750's. Possibly members of this family are buried there, too. William Hottinger, who used to work on the farm and remembers the cemetery, said the only store bought stone was for Michael Baker but there were other river rocks, too." J. Robert Swank noted "It is reported that John Roller removed the Baker stone containing the dates." Swank recorded the cemetery as the "Good Cemetery" because the owner in 1967 was Harley Good.
2023 Rocktown History. For personal use only.
Fulks Run, Rockingham County, Virginia. Going west on Route 259 from Fulks Run Grocery, you will pass by the Yankeytown bridge (Route 819). About 1/2 mile from that bridge is a wide open valley with a dairy farm and brick Cape Cod style house on the left. The cemetery was on that farm at the far end of the field.
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