BATH COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Porter Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Porter cemetery:
                  1936 Nov. 11
                  Research made by Russell G. Wood

Cemetery Location:  1 mile west of McClung, Virginia on Route #301.  Turn south 
                    at Guy Hall’s home 7 miles to Bear Loop Hunt Club, Mill 
                    Creek road.  1 mile west to cleared field on hill.
                    Bath County



OWNERS:

(1936) On Lowman’s Estate

DESCRIPTION:

This cemetery has a 4.5 foot stone wall 20 x 14 feet all around it.  It has 
grown up inside and no markers.  There are five graves inside of the stone wall 
and four with rock markers on the outside.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

This was known as Porters Mill Creek farm.  Adam Porter settled on Porter’s Mill 
Creek shortly after the Revolution.  He had three sons Robert, Reese, and Adams.

There are no inscriptions we can make out.  On the stone wall there is sign of 
something being carved there but it cannot be made out.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Information from Annals of Bath by Morton and Mr. Dave McClung of McClung, 
Virginia.




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