GILES COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Wilburn Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Billy Wilburn house:
                  1937 Nov. 15
                  Research made by Lula V. White

Cemetery Location:  3 miles from Pearisburg, Virginia, on Route #100, then 4 
                    miles on Route #665 to north of road.
                    Giles County


DATE:

About 1818 (house)

OWNERS:

Billy Wilburn.
His children were:  Howard, Boston, Allen, Priscilla.
Howard was the only one of the children that married and he and his family were the next to own the place.
It now belongs to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stringer. (1937)

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The only thing of historiical interest is that during the war soldiers came here to enlist in the war.   Boston Wilburn wouldn’t go, but hid in a big cave in Long Hollow and lived mostly on wild parsnips until war broke.  This cave is now called Boston Cave.

Inscriptions found on stones in the Wilburn Cemetery:


Elizabeth Wilburn
born May 26, 1791
died April 10, 1856


Sarah M.
Dau. of E & M. Apple
died May 23, 1859


Inscriptions found on stones in Jernell Cemetery:

J. M. Jernell
born April 1, 1843
died Nov. 7, 1895
Farewell, my wife and children all,
From you a father Christ dost call.


Mary Jane Carper
born Feb. 6, 1832
died May 12, 1861


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  Mrs. Mary King Wilburn, Wilburns Valley, Virginia
             Mr. Elbeert Munsey, Wilburns Valley, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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