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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Gum graveyard:
                  1937 Jan. 11
                  Research made by Howard Hiner

Cemetery Location:  On Little Back Creek near Fairview Ch.
                    Highland County, Virginia


DATE:

None.

OWNERS:

Present owner (1937) John Briscoe

DESCRIPTION:

It is a private graveyard and is in fair condition being enclosed with a good 
fence.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Many of the older graves here are not marked except with native stones with no 
inscriptions.  As history records this to be one of last sections of county to 
be settled, this graveyard is perhaps not as old as most of those on Back Creek 
proper.

The only inscription is:

Margaret Gum
Born in 1814
Died May 18, 1848
Aged 34 years


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Information was obtained from visit to the site, from Elza Terry of the 
community, and from Oliver Gum of Hightown, Va., age 86 and relative of people 
buried here.

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