AUGUSTA:  CEMETERY RECORDS – BETHANY CHURCH CEMETERY

Contributed by:  Joan Renfrow

NOTICE:  I have no relationship or further information in regards to this 
family.  

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Bethany Cemetery:
                  1937 July 19
                  Research made by Scioto M. Herndon

Cemetery Location:  10 miles north of Waynesboro, Va., at Bethany Church
                    Augusta County




In memory of
Mary Elizabeth
daughter of Peter & Julia Ann Shirley
who departed this life March the 10th
A.D. 1841 aged 4 months and 12 days
“Sweet lovely child, this silent grave
Love and respect shall always have.
Here Jesus slept, God’s dying son
Passed thro the grave & blessed the bed;
Rest here, blest babe till from his throne
The morning break and pierce the shade”


In Memory of
Daniel Keiser
who was born Sept. 21st
A.D. 1782
and departed this life
Aug. 30th 1842
Aged 59 years 11 months
and 9 days


Margaret E.A.
wife of Jacob Keiser
Died March 28, 1855
Aged 32 Yrs 6 Mo.
“Precious in the sight of the
Lord is the death of his
saints”


In Memory of
Daniel M. Coiner
who died January 10th, 1851
Aged 6 Years 11 Mo. 
and 12 Days
“Happy child early blest
Rest in peaceful slumbers rest
Early resu’d from the cares
Which increase with growing years”


In Memory of
John F.
Son of J.J. & Susan Cullen
Born July 6th, 1829
Died July 31,, 1851


J.S. Cullen
Died Feb. 18, 1845
7 mo. 24 dys


Mary Ann Cullen
Died 31 Jan. 1845
Aged 14 Years 8 Mo. 2 dys


In Memory of
Mary Ann Keiser
Wife of Daniel Keiser Decd.
who departed this life
Oct. 4th 1841
Aged 68 Years 6 Months
and 19 Days
“Blessed are the dead that die
in the Lord”


George M.
Son of M.A. & E. Coiner
Died June 25, 1858
Aged 8 Mo. & 24 ds
“Of such is the kingdom of heaven”


In Memory of
Virginia M. Coiner
who died Januy 6th 1851
Aged 2 Years 10 Months & 5 Days
“The Lord he call’d he thought it best
That I should be in eternal rest”


(In one grave with one stone)
In Memory of                        In Memory of
Daniel M. Keiser                    James B. Keiser
Born Sep. 6th 1832                   Born March 22nd 1835
Died Nov. 22nd 1836                  Died Nov. 24th 1836


Nancy Cullen
wife of Jno. Cullen
Died 21 March 1831
Aged 23 years


Laura V.
Infant daughter of W. & M.A. Watts
Died May 12, 1859
Aged 1 month


Sarah Rader
Born July 4, 1822
Died Feb. 15, 1853


Henry
Son of P. & C. Towberman
Died Nov. 16, 1837
aged 24 yrs 4 mo. 20 ds


In Memory of
Abraham Aughe
who departed this life
April 7th 1842
Aged 63 Years 2 Months
and 3 Days
“For me to live is Christ,
And to die is gain”


In Memory of
Mary E. Keiser
Born March 2nd 1837
Died Sep. 2nd 1849


Julia B.
daughter of J.G. & S. Palmer
Born Feb. 6, 1841
Died Sep. 6, 1841
Aged 7 Mo.


Jno Cullen
Died 17 Augt 1827
Aged 79 Years
“Scotland a cradle, America a grave”


Our Father and Mother
Daniel Miller
Born Aug. 11, 1798
Died June 13, 1861
Polly Miller
Born June 3, 1805
Died Dec. 13, 1847


Wm Layman
Born in Frederick Co., MD.
April 1823
Died Jan. 29, 1853


Margaret A. Fifer
Born Dec. 22, 1835
Died Jan. 2, 1857


Archibald H.
Son of S.& S. Dalhouse
Born Jan. 10, 1832
Died July 11, 1846


M. C. H.
“Blessed are they which die
in the Lord.  Though after
this body yet in my flesh
shall I see God.”
Mary Catherine
daughter of D.J. & J. Hyden
Born Nov. 23, 1852
Died June 10th 1858
Aged 6 Months and 17 Days
“Weep not for me but
weep for your selves, for
what I know now you
know not but ye shall
know hereafter”


In memory of
Catherine Womeldorf
was born March the 2
in the year 1776 and
departed this life the
27 June 1827 Aged 31 Years
22 Months & 27 Days
(foot stone)
“Go home dear friends and do not weep
I am not dead but here to sleep
As I am now so you must be
Prepare for death and follow me”


Joshua H. Evans
Died March 10, 1860
Aged 48 Yrs. 6 mos. & 11 days


To the memory of
Samuel Dalhouse
who departed this life
November 6th 1847
Aged 50 Years & 
6 Months
“Husband, Father, Friend”


Martha C. Dalhouse
wife of B.F. Weade
Died March 11, 1851


Juliette
Daughter of S. & S. Dalhouse
Born Aug. 31, 1830
Died Dec. 1, 1848


Mary Louisa
daughter of H. & H. Weade
Died Dec. 23, 1857
Aged 27 Yrs. 6 Mo. 23 ds
“Blessed are the dead which die
in the Lord”


Hetty
wife of Henry Weade
Died Aug. 19, 1858
Aged 53 Yrs. & 15 ds.
“Sleep on, sleep on, then mother dear,
And take thy peaceful rest
Soon we again thy voice shall hear
With Christ amid the blest”


Willie Lee
Son of S. & F.S. Kennerly
and
Robert E. Lee
Son of S. & F.C. Kennerly
(no date but very old)


Here rest the remains of
William W. Stuart
infant son of
John & Mary Hanger
who departed this life
October 12, 1831
Aged 19 months & 21 days


Edgar W. Hanger
Died July 22, 1855
Aged 16 Yrs. 11 Mo. 7 ds
“Farewell, though thy form in the dark grave is lying
We fear’d not to lay thee beneath the cold clay
No shadow of doubt, O’er thy prospects are flying
We will see thee no more, what availeth our weeping
Thou passed from the earth like the oceans calm wave
And in thy lone tomb, thou art silently sleeping
Where the winds nightly wail O’er thy dark dreary grave”


In Memory of
George G. Hanger
Born July 22, 1821
Died Aug. 23, 1845
“He lived beloved and died lamented
His labor’s done, securely laid;
In this, his last retreat,
Unheeded o’er his silent dust
The storm of life shall beat”


William George
Son of P. & M. Hanger
Died June 20, 1860
Aged 7 Yrs. 9 Mo. & 10 ds


Peter Hanger
Son of P. & M. Hanger
Died June 19, 1860
Aged 5 Yrs. 9 Mo. 11 ds


Mary Bourland
daughter of P. & M. Hanger
Died June 8, 1860
Aged 2 Yrs. 9 Mo. & 22 ds


Edgar W.
Son of P. & M. Hanger
Oct. 19, 1855
Died Oct. 1, 1858