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Rocktown History Cemetery Report For
Effie Hoover
1879
Birth Date:
Age:
Death Date:
1880
Cemetery Name:
Hoover Family Cemetery 2
Grave Location:
6
Section Plot Row Grave
Cemetery Type:
Private
Tombstone Note:
Tombstone
Remarks:
No visible marker-recorded by Swank in 1967; d/Noah & Laura Wilkins Hoover of Cootes Store
Cemetery Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
Source Date Remarks :
4-Apr-03
Hoover Family Cemetery 2. Recorded and compared to J. Robert Swank's 1967 record.
Cemetery Notes
Cemetery is not maintained and without fence. River rocks can be seen marking numerous graves. In 1967 J. Robert Swank wrote, "Located on the west side of Road 612 about 1/2 mile south of Owen Phillips home. On the east side of the old road. There were perhaps as many as 40 graves." On September 1, 2004, Garland & Ora Hoover of Lakeland, Florida, erected new stones honoring their ancestors.
2023 Rocktown History. For personal use only.
Fulks Run area, Rockingham County, Virginia. Take Route 259 to Fulks Run Grocery Store and turn left onto Route 612 (Hopkins Gap Road). Go approximately 7 miles to where you cross the Shoemaker River and park by the bridge. Walk 300 yards south on Route 612, then walk west 300 yards through the woods and cemetery is along the bank of the Shoemaker River.
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