FREDERICK COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Battlefield Inn Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Grave yard at Battlefield Inn:
                  1936 Dec. 3
                  Research made by Robert G. VanMeter

Cemetery Location:  Very near the Mansion, Battlefield Inn, Kernstown, Virginia.
                    Frederick County


DATE:

1836, date of oldest grave.

OWNERS:

S. M. Chiles. (1936)

DESCRIPTION:

This was a private burying place and is not kept up; the fence is down and 
graves sunken.  Many stones are sunk in the ground so far that the lettering can 
not be read.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


In memory of
Nicholas Kern
born May 8th 1768
died October 16th 1842
Aged 75 years 5 months & 2 days


In memory of
Elizabeth Beemer
who departed this life
May 22nd 1836
Aged 39 years
She is not dead but sleepeth


In memory of
John Beemer
who departed this life
July 9th 1847


Sacred to the memory of
Susannah Beemer
who departed this life
August 28th 1847
in the 65th year of her age
Happy spirit thou hast fled
where no greif can entrance find
Lulled to rest thy aching head
sooth the anguish of thy mind.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  S. M. Chiles

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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