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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Windy Cove cemetery:
                  1936 Nov. 6
                  Research made by Russell G. Wood

Cemetery Location:  .75 of a mile west of Millboro Springs, Virginia on Route 
                    #501, by the Windy Cove Church.
                    Bath County




DESCRIPTION:

Private and kept in good condition.  The Windy Cove Cemetery adjoining the 
church yard has been filled some 25 years ago.  On account of being low, and so 
near the river it has been abandoned.  The new cemetery is east of the church .5 
mile on a hill.  There is one marker in this old cemetery 136 years old at this 
date, 1936.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inscriptions on tombstones:


Sacred in Memory of
Susan R.S.
Daughter of John V. & Ann M. Dickinson
Who died Jan. 24, 1848
Aged 9 years


_. J. McCurdy
born Feb. 5, 1844
Died June 9, 1846


R.F. McCurdy
Born Nov. 7, 1838
Died Jan. 19, 1845


Memory of
Archibald Withrow
Who departed this life Aug. 5, 1845
Aged 64 years
The tender father & the generous friend.


Sacred in Memory of
Joseph G.W. Bell
Who departed this life June 9, 1848
Aged 31 years, 2 mo. 19 days


Sacred to the Memory of
Mary Elizabeth
Wife of Alex. D. Campbell &
daughter of John V. and Ann M. Dickinson
Born May 15, 1830
Died May 15, 1854


John McClung
Born April 25, 1785
Died Nov. 8, 1827


Rebecca McClung
Born 1797
Died Sept. 25, 1827


In Memory of
Rodney B. Henderson
Consort of R.A. Henderson
born Aug. 22, 1821
Died March 12, 1850


Harriet B.
Wife of John V. McDonnald
Died Aug. 1, 1855


Memory of
John
Infant son of A.J. & M. Wilson
Died April 14, 1854
Aged 11 days


Sacred to the memory of
John W. Frazur
Rockbridge Alum Springs
Died April 9, 1858
Aged 40 years 6 mo. 20 days


Sacred to the memory of
John S. Kelso
Born Oct. 25, 1790
Died July 4, 1850
Aged 59 years 9 months


William Sitlington
Born Nov. 24, 1779
Died Oct. 18, 1826
Aged 46 yrs. 10 mo. 24 days


Joseph Payne
1758 – 1826
Soldier of the American Revolution
Placed by Rainbow Ridge Chapter D.A.R. 1927


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

History of Windy Cove Presbyterian Church, compiled by Rev. A.J. Ponton, and 
published by the congregation.

Tombstone Inscriptions


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