HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Gilmor Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Gilmor graveyard:
                  1936 Nov. 28
                  Research made by Howard Hiner

Cemetery Location:  1 mile south of Mill Gap, Virginia
                    Highland County, Virginia


DATE:

1758

OWNERS:

E. J. Crummet, present owner. (1936)

DESCRIPTION:

It is a private graveyard and is no longer used for burying purposes.  It is 
enclosed with a wire fence which is partly down.  Bushes have grown up, but were 
cut and burned recently.  The condition of this graveyard is only fair.

This is a very old graveyard, having been used as far back as 1812.

Samuel Gilmor buried here in 1848 came to this county and purchased land here in 
1827.  He was a Revolutionary soldier and was severely wounded in the Waxhow 
massacre in 1780, having received severe saber cuts on the head.  It is said 
this wound left a mark two inches wide, and that a man could place two fingers 
in the groove on his head.  He lived to be very old and was blind the last years 
of his life.  He was a native of Pennsylvania, but came here from Rockingham 
County.  He had two grandsons who served in the Confederate service, one being a 
captain.

The Ruckmans buried here were of English descent, the pioneer coming to this 
county from New Jersey in 1784.  The pioneer settler himself was buried 
elsewhere, but at least two of his sons were buried here.

The inscriptions are:


Samuel Gilmor
Mar. 25, 1760
Jan. 25, 1848
Revolutionary Soldier


Elenor Gilmor
Jan. 1758
July 18, 1832


Jesse S. Gilmor
Mar. 13, 1838
Sept. 26, 1861
A Confederate soldier


In Memory of 
Samuel Ruckman
Born November 17, 1783
Died September 24th, 1853


In Memory of
James Ruckman
who departed this life May 16th, 1812
Age 20 years, 5 months and 6 Days



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

This information was obtained from visit to the site, from Mr. and Mrs. E.A. 
Wade residents of the community and descendants of the Ruckmans, and from 
written records in their possession, also from Local History concerning the 
early settlers.

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