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Rocktown History Cemetery Report For
Child Effinger
Birth Date:
Age:
Death Date:
1820
Cemetery Name:
Harrison & Effinger Family Cemetery #
Grave Location:
2
Section Plot Row Grave
Cemetery Type:
Private
Tombstone Note:
ch/Peter & Harriet
Tombstone
Remarks:
Didn't find in Woodbine Cemetery
Cemetery Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
Source Date Remarks :
1892; 1944
Harrison & Effinger Family Cemetery, Virginia. July 21, 2003, Lois Emswiler extracted data from book "My Recollections of Rocktown by Maria Carr and "Landmarks & Personage of Old Harrisonburg" by Tommy Bassford.
Cemetery Notes
Sixteen graves/names were listed in Maria G. Carr's book "My Recollections of Rocktown now Known as Harrisonburg" which she wrote in 1892 and was reprinted in 1984. From the book "Landmarks and Personage of Old Harrisonburg" by Tommy Bassford in 1944, he mentions "William C. and Lelia Harrison along with Jacob and Hester Effinger and a number of others. Through a Court Order all were exhumed and reinterred in Woodbine by John Mitchell and Piner Landis." The five persons shown in this cemetery listing were not found in Woodbine Cemetery. The rest of the names were found in Woodbine in 2003 and the 15 listed below are shown in that cemetery: Maria Graham Koontz, John Graham, Elizabeth F. Graham, Mary Fanella Effinger, Margaret Boyd (Graham) Morris, Francis Catherine Effinger, Peter Effinger, Harriet Effinger, Jacob Effinger, Hester Effinger, Samuel Cootes, Emily Cootes, Maria Louisa Cootes, Maria Francis Cootes, and William (Willie) Cootes.
2023 Rocktown History. For personal use only.
Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Virginia. It was located on Federal Street in Harrisonburg and the graves moved to Woodbine Cemetery.
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