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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Wade graveyard:
                  1937 Dec. 9
                  Research made by Howard Hiner

Cemetery Location:  2 miles south of Mill Gap, Virginia
                    Highland County, Virginia


DATE:

None.

OWNERS:

Harry Wade, present owner’s name. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

It is a private graveyard, and is in fair condition, being enclosed with a good 
fence, and the markers are in nice shape.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The Wade family first settled in this county in 1780, coming here from Maryland.  
Otho Wade was the first ordained minister of Highland which was in 1809.

This Graveyard is older than the markers it contains.

The inscriptions are:

Emma E. 
Daughter of A.D. & C. Wade
Born Dec. 18, 1853
Died Sept. 3, 1856


Matilda
Wife of John Wade, Sr.
Died Nov. 20, 1855
Aged 62 yrs. & 18 Days


Reuben A. Wade
Died Jan. 27, 1852
Aged 24 yrs. 4 m’s 26 d’s


Electa E.
Daughter of Charles and C. Wade
Born May 4, 1857
Died Apr. 21, 1859



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

This information was obtained from visit to the site, from H.A. Wade, E.A. Wade, 
and from study of the history of these families.

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