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Rocktown History Cemetery Report For
Evelyn Wayre
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Cemetery Name:
St. Hebron Baptist Church Cemetery (*)
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Cemetery Type:
Church
Cemetery is known as an African American cemetery which may have slave burials.
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Tombstone
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No visible marker-recorded by WPA 1936 burial pre-1860
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Source Date Remarks :
15-Aug-04
St. Hebron Baptist Church Cemetery (Negro). D.A.R. did not record this cemetery. Compared against W.P.A. record of 11 December 1936.
Cemetery Notes
Cemetery is in fair condition. It is located on Earby G. Good farm. Numerous unmarked graves and fieldstones. St. Hebron Baptist Church is located on the corner of Rt. 602 (East Point Road) and Rt. 940 (Greenwood Road). The church is about 140 years old and is an active congregation. On December 11, 1936, C. C. Morris of Shenandoah, Virginia, recorded the following on this cemetery as given to him by F. E. Brown and Earl Wayre.
"This is an old colored cemetery that goes back to the slavery times. There are quite a few old slaves buried here, but no inscriptions on stones. Some of the old slaves who were buried here before 1860 were Harvey Wayre and his wife, Evelyn Wayre; John Brown and wife, Sarah Brown; and Caroline Beck; also the Rev. John Wood, the colored missionary Baptist preacher."
2023 Rocktown History. For personal use only.
Greenwood area, Rockingham County, Virginia. From Courthouse in Harrisonburg, Virginia, take Route 33 East. Go 12.4 miles and turn left onto Route 602 (East Point Road). Go 4.8 miles and turn left into dirt driveway to the Earby G. Good farm, just before Route 940 (Greenwood Road). Need permission to visit cemetery.
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