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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.

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Bennetts Run, Bergton Area, Rockingham County, Virginia. Located in the field behind the present Bennetts Run School house.

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