Augusta County VA Archives Cemeteries....Payne's Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Glenda Lambert-Gibson September 8, 2009 Payne's Chapel United Methodist Church Stover Shop Rd. Mt. Solon, Virginia 22843 This is a very old family/neighbor cemetery on a wooded hilltop heavily overgrown, although with clearings created by a thick myrtle groundcover. It is located about one mile by road from the church, reached by a private drive on the west side of Jennings Gap Rd. a short distance south of Stover Shop Rd. It evidently served as an early burying ground for the Hogshead family (Hogsett may be a later variant of the name) and other early settlers. Many old stones are hand- incised with Hogshead names, with birth dates ranging from the late 1700s and death dates from the early to late 1800s. Unlettered fieldstones mark many graves, and there are many unmarked declivities. Other names appearing in this cemetery are Fifer, Dudley, Richey, Bittle, Brown, and Kilpatrick (?), with death dates from 1812 to 1874. The 1884 Hotchkiss map depicts Hogshead and Gilkeson as contiguous, and at some point in time the Gilkesons acquired ownership of the graveyard. The African- American sector is on the northwest side of this hilltop cemetery. The few legible stones we could find are as follows: Brown, Mabel M. b 20 Apr 1897 - d 22 May 1914 d/o Robert & Cornelia Brown Brown, Paul B. b 4 Oct 1911 - d 7 Jan 1913 s/o M.G.& Gracie Brown Peyton, Ashby b (c) 1822 - d 20 Apr 1902 80 yr "Father" Peyton, Edward b (c) 1875 - d 1 Nov 189(?) 24 yr Peyton, Silla b (c) 1828 - d 15 Jul 1893 65 yr "Mother" w/o Ashby Peyton Peyton, Arthur b (c) 1865 - d 30 Oct 1892 27 yr Rankin, Annie P. b (c) 1870 - d 20 Jan 1896 26 yr Peyton, _______ b 1911 - d --Apr 1911 2 da s/o O.R. & A.B. Peyton Pleasant, Mattie b 25 Sep 1887 - d 25 Apr 1912 d/0 Jeff & Hannah Pleasant Mrs. Peyton Keller says that her great grandmother, Fanny Tyndale, and Fannie's son, Morris, are buried in this cemetery. Mrs. Roy (Rosie Williams) Kincaid, a Staunton resident whose family attened Payne's Chapel, says that her twin sisters, Martha and Mary Williams, were buried there in the early 1930s. END