AUGUSTA:  CEMETERY RECORDS –  LYTTON GRAVEYARD

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, Lytton graveyard:
                  1936 Aug. 12
                  Research made by Scioto M. Herndon

Cemetery Location:  On the farm of Mr. Sam Ruckman of Staunton, about 14 miles 
                    north of Staunton, Virginia on Route #613
                    Augusta County




This is an oblong plot surrounded by a low stone wall which in places has been 
breached and has fallen.  Sheep and ground hogs have torn it up rather badly and 
many stones have been over turned and some reset.   There are a number of river 
rocks and wooden markers too effaced to read but the remainder of the stones are 
of good quality and at one time this must have been a lovely place.  There is a 
growth of young timber scattered throughout the plot and a few graves have 
enclosing iron fences.  The earliest date here is 1852 and the only epitaph 
found has not been found elsewhere to date.


Joseph
Son of N. & E. Early
Died May 11, 1852
Age 7 Months


Jennie Lind
daughter of W. & M. Swink
Died Aug. 24, 1855
Aged 5 Mo. & 26 ds


Elizabeth
Wife of Noah Early
Died Feb. 14, 1853
Aged 28 Yrs. & 16 Ds.


Helen S.
Wife of Thomas Wright
Died Dec. 20, 1856
aged 38 Yrs. 6 Mo. & 26 da


Catherine F. Cole
Died Jan. 9, 1860
Aged 60 Yrs. 10 Mo. 7 ds


Malinda
wife of Washington Swink
Died July 2, 1858
Aged 38 Yrs. 6 mo. & 2 ds


Sacred to the memory of
Mary Grist
Born August 26th 1814
and died February 12th 1852
Aged 37 years 5 months and 16 days
Beneath the poplar tree you sleep
The lonely partner here will weep
A tender mother there will mourn
In silence O’er thy mouldering urn
Sleep, Mary sleep, but you will rise
To the bright world above the skies
Where you will swell and happy be
Throughout a vast eternity.