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Rocktown History Cemetery Report For 

J. W., Col. Burke

24 Sep 1817

Birth Date:
Age:

Death Date:

20 Feb 1898

Cemetery Name:

Friedens Church Cemetery

Grave Location:

2

21

17

 Section    Plot      Row    Grave
Cemetery  Type:

Church

Tombstone Note:

Aged 80y 4m 27d, Our Dear Father

Tombstone
Remarks:

Cemetery Location:
Latitude:

Longitude:

Source Date Remarks :

20-Jul-06

Friedens Church Cemetery. Recording compared against the 1960s recording by the D.A.R. and the John W. Wayland recordings in 1928. Someone submitted data from Abstracts of Executor, Administration and Guardian Bonds by Ms. Priode, and the recordings by ei

Cemetery Notes

Well maintained. Facing the front door of the church, Section 1 is the old section of the graveyard to the left of the church, and Section 2 is the newer section to the right of the church. Both sections were recorded starting in the southwest corners and from left to right facing headstones. Section 1 in the "Remarks" column there are some notes from John W. Wayland. Some show Abstracts of Executor, Administrator & Guardian Bonds by Ms. Priode. Also some show recordings by Leiby or Hinke. August 8, 1928, John W. Wayland wrote: "I went to old Friedens Church (Reformed, German Reformed), between Mt. Crawford and Cross Keys, and began to copy inscriptions in the old graveyard (Section 1). I have been told that the Lutherans also worshiped at Friedens same years. I am told the old cemetery is full of graves but not many of the graves have stones or markers. Probably more than half of the graves in the old cemetery never had any markers or wooden slabs which have rotted down. A few wooden markers remain, but none of them have legible inscription. Some are sandstone, some a kind of marble, some a shaly (sic) kind of stone that scales off. A number of the stones, with almost faded inscriptions, are lying down and almost overgrown with grass, etc. The old brick church house, a century or more old, was not the first building here, I suppose. Mr. Q. G. Kaylor, of Kaylor Park, was with me. Most of the oldest inscriptions are in German. This was a German community and a German Reform church, one of the oldest in the state." There is another listing of Friedens Church cemetery/map/records located on Rockingham County, Virginia, website - www.Rootsweb.com/~varockin/index.htm

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Near Mt. Crawford, Rockingham County, Virginia. From Harrisonburg, Virginia, take Route 11 South to Mt. Crawford. Take a left onto Route 257 (Friedens Church Road). Stay on Route Friedens Church Road for several miles and you will see church/cemetery on the right side of the road.

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