AUGUSTA:  CEMETERY RECORDS – JOHN STERRETT 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, John Sterrett graveyard:
                  1936 Aug. 11
                  Research made by Scioto M. Herndon

Cemetery Location:  On the Augusta side of the Augusta-Rockbridge County line, 1 
                    mile west of Craigsville, Va., on Route #5
                    Augusta County




This is both a family and community plot and the tennant thinks it does not 
belong to the farm.  He says someone comes once in a while and clears some of 
it.  It is very bad condition.  There are many briars and the old barbed wire 
was thrown into the lot when new wire was put in the fence.  It appears that 
groundhogs have also been in the lot.  It is on the side and top of a low hill.  
Many stones have disappeared; many inscriptions are obliterated and the river 
stones and wooden markers appear not to have been marked.

It is known that Samuel and Polly Craig, early settlers of this section, are 
buried here but no stones are marked to indicate it.  Two stones are deeply 
sunken and many graves are sunken.  The earliest stone is dated 1816 or 1826.  
Here is also the grave of another Irish immigrant, John Sterrett, whose stone is 
new, probably replacing an old one.


Margaret Craig
Born Decr. 2, 1783
Died. Aug. 1835


Virginia E.
Daughter of A. & E. Armstrong
Born April 24, 1848
Died Dec. 27, 1859


John Sterrett
1748 – 1830


Ann Reid Sterrett
1752 – 1836
Born in Ireland


In Memory of 
Archibald Armstrong
Son of William Armstrong Decd.
who died Jan. 19th 1853
Aged 55 Years
_ months and 22 days



Nancy Sterrett
Departed this life in
May 3 1816(or 1826)
Age 17 Years 3 Months
12 Day


Sacred to the memory of
Sarah H. Johnson
Born the 8th of October 1787
and departed this life the
3 day of Novr. 1826, 39 Years 1 month & 22 days.
Death, thou hast conquered me
By thy dart I am slain
But Christ hath conquered thee
And I shall rise again


_____ Sterrett
This devoted Husband
Affectionate Father
Useful Citizen
Born Feb. 20th 1787
Died March 24, 1858
Mark the perfect man,
And behold the upright
for the end of that man
is peace.


Bettie A.
daughter of William Armstrong
(An old river stone deeply buried)


In Memory of
William Armstrong Senr.
who died Oct. 29th 1853
Aged 93 Years
10 Months and 17 Days