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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Malcomb graveyard:
                  1936 Nov. 16
                  Research made by Howard Hiner

Cemetery Location:  3 miles north of McDowell, Virginia on public road, near 
                    home of Thomas Malcomb.
                    Highland County, Virginia


DATE:

1850.

OWNERS:

Joseph Malcomb and his descendants,
Thomas Malcomb, present owner. (1936)

DESCRIPTION:

The graveyard is in a corner of a meadow and is not enclosed.  It is in poor 
condition.   The only markers are common native stones placed in the ground.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

One marker shows there were people named Thorpe buried here.  Very little is 
known of these people.  They were of Scotch-Irish descent and came to this 
section about 1810.  A member of this family, without an education, acquired a 
practical knowledge of surveying, constructing his own instruments.

The Malcombs were pioneer settlers in this locality, having come to the county 
in 1752.  Joseph Malcomb was a miller.

The only inscription:

Mar. Thorp
Died 1850


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  Thomas Malcomb and Oscar Malcomb

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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