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Rocktown History Cemetery Report For 

Jacob Lantz, Sr.

Birth Date:
Age:

Death Date:

Mar 1850

Cemetery Name:

Old Criders Cemetery

Grave Location:

 Section    Plot      Row    Grave
Cemetery  Type:

Private

Tombstone Note:

Tombstone
Remarks:

Jacob died in March 1850, age 83 of old age after being sick for 8 days. He was born in Virginia. (from mortality schedule, 1850)

Cemetery Location:
Latitude:

Longitude:

Source Date Remarks :

30-Jul-05

Old Criders Cemetery. Compared against 1967 records of J. Robert Swank and Lewis Yankey records.

Cemetery Notes

Notes in remarks column are taken from Patricia Ritchie records. Patricia Ritchie notes: This cemetery is bordered on three sides by the Gail and Shirley Smith Hupp farm. There is one large monument to mark this cemetery in the field. He had hoped to engrave the names of those buried there but was not able to complete the project. Mrs. Hupp reports that there used to be some carved markings along fence on the upper end of the cemetery. According to the notes of Lewis Yankey, these people are buried in the old cemetery down the hill from the present-day Caplinger Cemetery at Criders, Virginia. Most dates are from his notes, census records, the 1850 mortality schedule for Rockingham County, or the Rockingham County Death Register. In 1967 Mr. J. Robert Swank noted: It is said there are some slaves and possibly Indians buried here.

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Criders, Rockingham County, Virginia. From Harrisonburg, Virginia, take Route 42 North to Broadway. Pick up Route 259 (Brocks Gap Road) and go west. Travel past Fulks Run Grocery store and continue on Route 259 to Route 820 (Bergton Road) and turn left. Continue on Route 820 to Route 826 (Criders Road) and turn left. Go about 5 miles. The cemetery is below the hill of the current Caplinger Cemetery at Criders.

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