ALLEGHANY COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – King-Fisher Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, King-Fisher cemetery:
                  1937 Sept. 15
                  Research made by L. Blanche Bess

Cemetery Location:  19 miles southwest of Covington, Routes #60, #18, and #610.  
                    It is located off Route #610 about 200 yards back of Mr. 
                    King’s House.
                    Alleghany County



Owners:

This is a private cemetery held in trust by each successive owner.  We have been 
unable to learn of any trustees.

The “trust” has not been kept sacred by the present owner; the plot has been 
allowed to grow up in brush until it is almost impossible to locate the burial 
ground.

Description:

There are a number of graves discernable, many of them unmarked, while some of 
them are marked by a head and foot stone of native mountain stone.  Some bear 
the name and date but many inscriptions have been erased by the hand of time.

Historical Significance:

Some of the very early settlers are buried here, but we were unable to read the 
dates out on the mountain stones.  The following two inscriptions are the only 
legible ones in this cemetery.  These two are:

George Persinger
Died June 8th 1889


Amy Bell Crowder
Sep. 10, 1886


We were told by an elderly lady who accompanied us on our recent visit, that 
some of the very early settlers were buried at this place.  Some of the old 
Fridley family, the Kings, Heplers, Tuckers, and Persingers, were laid to rest 
here.  At that time the plot was nicely kept.  The location is good, being upon 
a hill high enough to be dry and to be seen from the highway if the under growth 
was cut away.  The burial ground which is very well known, is no longer used.

Some very fine people are buried here and their memory should be honored by 
cleaning this place.

At some time not far distant some one has hauled logs through the cemetery, 
moving from their places several head stones.  This is a private burial ground, 
the site designated in the deed, and each successive owner receives it as a 
“trust”.

Informant:

Mrs. Paulina Crowder, Potts Creek Virginia


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