ALLEGHANY COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Humphries Graves
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Humphries lone graves:
                  1937 July 15
                  Research made by Robert Stover

Cemetery Location:  Go 11 miles southwest of Covington, Virginia, leaving Route 
                    #60, go Route #18 to Hayes Gap 5 miles, take Route #619 up 
                    Hayes Gap to Richpatch 3 miles, turn west on Route #616, go 2 
                    or 3 miles to west, at junction take Route #618, go 1 mile 
                    to south of V.B. Humphries farm on southeast of road.
                    Alleghany County



DESCRIPTION:

A private burial ground of William Humphries and his family , situated on the 
west side of a hill some 200 yards in a hollow above C.B. Humphries saw mill 
site.  The exact location of the graves are difficult to locate, they have grown 
up in grass and locust trees, but Mr. O.B. Humphries, a distant relative who 
owns the land, states that they are on the south side of an old road, some 200 
yards up the hill from his saw mill site.


The Humphries were the first settlers in the Richpatch (as far back as I have 
yet ascertained).  John Humphries, the grandfather of William Humphries, who is 
said to be buried here, by O. B. Humphries the land owner, who is a great-
grandson of said William Humphries, was in the Richpatch in 1766.  The said 
William Humphries lived in the west end of the Humphries settlement.  Jesse 
Humphries, his brother, lived in the east end of settlement.

Ruth Persinger, a daughter of Henry Persinger and Greselda, married William 
Humphries.

Henry Persinger died 1824

William Humphries reared a large family and was named after his father.  Mr. 
R.R. Humphries, a merchant of Covington, Virginia has the family tree.  Some of 
the children of William Humphries and Ruth, his wife, are buried in the Jamison 
Simmons graveyard in Richpatch.  William Humphries, Sr. d. 1827 in Richpatch, 79 
years old.  Mr. L.L. Humphries is the authority for saying he is buried in 
Jamison-Simmons graveyard.

There are no tombstones or inscriptions in this cemetery.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:

Mr. O.B. Humphries
Mrs. Molly Humphries
Mr. O.L. Humphries
Mr. R.R. Humphries
L.L. Humphries


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