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Rocktown History Cemetery Report For
Mary Elizabeth (Shaver) Smith
1811
Birth Date:
Age:
Death Date:
after 1880
Cemetery Name:
Smith Cemetery
Grave Location:
Section Plot Row Grave
Cemetery Type:
Private
Tombstone Note:
Tombstone
Remarks:
wife of Emanuel Smith, and child of Abraham Shaver I & Barbara Kepner Shaver
Cemetery Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
Source Date Remarks :
2002
Smith Cemetery. Recording compared against J. Robert Swank's record in 1967.
Cemetery Notes
Cemetery records compiled by Shirley Cullers Miller using headstones, field/river rocks, papers of Warren Souder and Lewis Yankey, J. Robert Swank’s 1967 records, and through interviews with area residents. Shirley Cullers Miller noted the following; "There has never been a record of the burials in the Smith Cemetery. The graves (except for one) were marked with field and river rocks. During my research, I found names of people who are buried here. I am including the list for a record to be preserved. The Smith Cemetery is located in the field behind the present Bennetts Run School house. In the summer of 2000, Alonzo Earl 'Bill" Yankey and George Hottinger made white cement tombstones (no markings on them) and placed them at some of the grave sites. Bill also stated that he plans to build a fence around this Smith Cemetery. One monument was set in the Smith Cemetery in 1984. It marks the graves of more than fifty people." In 1967 J. Robert Swank noted-the space occupied would accommodate 70 to 90 graves.
2023 Rocktown History. For personal use only.
Bennetts Run, Bergton Area, Rockingham County, Virginia. Located in the field behind the present Bennetts Run School house.
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