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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Gum graveyard:
                  1936 Oct. 6
                  Research made by Howard Hiner

Cemetery Location:  On the land of Isaac Gum, near Mill Gap, Virginia
                    Highland County, Virginia


DATE:

1804, date of oldest inscription.

OWNERS:

Abraham Gum and his descendants.

DESCRIPTION:

This is a private burying ground and it is enclosed with a board fence.  Brush 
and briars have been allowed to grow up and it is in very bad condition.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

There is a marker in the graveyard dated 1804, which is the oldest inscription 
found in Highland County, although there are probably older graves which are not 
marked.

Abraham Gum, who is buried here, was a son of John Gum, who came to Highland 
County in 1766.  He had a brother, Isaac Gum, who was a soldier in the War of 
the Revolution and was at Yorktown when the British surrendered.

Inscriptions:


Grandfather
Abraham Gum
died 1804
Aged 50 yrs.


His wife,
Priscilla
Died July 7, 1842
Aged 84 yrs.


Otho
son of A. & P. Gum
Died Feb. 17, 1840
aged 49 yrs.


William
son of O & E Gum
Died Dec. 1827
Aged 6 yrs.


Sarah E. McLaughlin
Died Apr. 3, 1853
Aged 23 yrs.


William H.
son of A.W. & Margaret A. Gum
Born June 30, 1856
Died Jan. 17, 1858




SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  Isaac Gum
             James Gum
             Mrs. Kate Gum
             All of Mill Gap, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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