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Rocktown History Cemetery Report For
Child Ritchie
Birth Date:
Age:
Death Date:
Cemetery Name:
Lewis Ritchie Cemetery
Grave Location:
13
Section Plot Row Grave
Cemetery Type:
Private
Tombstone Note:
Tombstone
Remarks:
No visible marker-buried here per Mr. Swank in 1967, brother of Brewer Ritchie
Cemetery Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
Source Date Remarks :
1. 1999 2. 1967
Lewis Ritchie Cemetery. Records taken from Patricia Turner Ritchie's listing of "Fulks Run Cemeteries" and from J. Robert Swank records of 1967.
Cemetery Notes
The hillside, where the cemetery is located, is covered with perIwinkle. There are no stones marking the site. For more details on the Ritchie family refer to book "Isaac Ritchie of Virginia" by Vergie Carr Lantz. Directions and notes were furnished by Patricia Turner Ritchie in 1999. In 1967 J. Robert Swank noted "space would indicate 35 to 50 graves. No inscribed stones."
2023 Rocktown History. For personal use only.
Fulks Run area, Rockingham County, Virginia. From Fulks Run Grocery store, go west on Hwy 259 for 1 mile. At Valley Land store, turn left onto Route 818 (Little Dry River Road). Watch for Route 631. About 1 mile after you pass Route 631, the road from Carr Hollow will enter Dry River Road from the right. Around the next turn is the old Ritchie land. The cemetery is on the left side of the road on the hill next to the road.
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