HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Sproul and Doyle Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Sproul and Doyle graveyard:
                  1936
                  Research made by Howard Hiner

Cemetery Location:  3 miles south of Vanderpool, Va.
                    Highland County, Virginia


DATE:

None.

OWNERS:

S. D. Timberlake (1936)

DESCRIPTION:

It is a private graveyard and is in a bad condition.  It is near the center of a 
field, and no fence surrounds it, brush has grown up and rocks from the field 
have been thrown around the edge.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Quite a few of the early settlers of this section of the County were buried 
here.  They were mostly of Irish descent.  John Sproul of Ireland, one of the 
early school teachers of the county, who taught at the mouth of Dry Branch in 
1790, is said to be buried here.

This graveyard bears no inscriptions before 1860, but from the nearest estimate 
it was first used about 1800.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

This information was obtained from visit to the site, and from Mrs. Ewing Dever 
whose great grandfather was buried here.

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