ALLEGHANY COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Johnson-Hellmintoller Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Johnson-Hellmintoller cemetery:
                  1937 Mar. 26
                  Research made by Robert L. Stover

Cemetery Location:  8 miles southwest of Covington, Virginia.  Take Route #60 to 
                    intersection with Route #18.  The cemetery is on the right 
                    going south.
                    Alleghany County



OWNERS:

Ezekiel Johnson
William Johnson (son of Ezekiel)
Bernard Johnson (son of William)
Henry & Julia Ann Johnson (son of Bernard)
H.J. Hellmintoller
J.B. Helms

DESCRIPTION:

This is a public burying ground, enclosed by a fence of part wood and part wire, 
with an iron gate.  There are some lilies planted and the condition of the 
cemetery is fairly good.  Many of the graves are not marked and some have 
unlettered, crude markers.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The Johnson family seems to have been an industrious family; they were millers 
and blacksmiths.  This cemetery was on the old Johnson place, and is one of the 
oldest, if not the oldest, in this part of the county.  It is debatable whether 
the Johnson or the Bowyer cemetery is the oldest.

The following names and inscriptions may be seen in this cemetery:


Philip Johnson
b. Feb. 1, 1834
d. Aug. 25, 1880
Thou art gone but not forgotten


Catherine E. Johnson
b. May 29th, 1837
d. July 16, 1912


The local informants said that there were several of the Johnson family whose 
graves were without stones.  They mentioned William Johnson, and his son, 
Bernard, who ran the mill and was the blacksmith, and his son.


William Helmintoller
b. Mch 12, 1829
d. Aug. 18, 1909


Bethiar R. Helmintoller
wife of Wm.
b. Apr. 7, 1828
d. Mch. 7, 1900


Robert Madison Hellmintoller
b. Aug. 30, 1859
d. Oct. 25, 1931


Nellie
wife of J.O. Fridley
b. Nov. 29, 1852
d. Mch. 5, 1890


R.L. Terry
1862 – 1925


Elizabeth A.
wife of James Craft
b. July 26th, 1851
d. June 15th, 1894
At Rest


Mary Jane McDavitt
b. Jan. 5, 1843
d. Apr. 22, 1901
(Over this grave is a monument about 5 feet high, and it and the grave, enclosed 
by an iron fence about 3 feet high)


Some 400 or 500 hundred yards away Elias Hepler, an officer in the War Between 
the  States, was shot from ambush from a bluff on the other side of the Creek.  
It is not certainly known who shot him as it was from ambush.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:

Allen Persinger, Blue Springs Run, Va.
G.O. Plymale, Blue Springs Run, Va.


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