MADISON COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – “Firner” Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Graveyard at Firner, the Conway place:
                  1936 Dec. 2
                  Research made by Evelyn Tunison

Cemetery Location:  On Route #612, going southwest to Stanardsville, Virginia.  
                    House on the left just before crossing line into Greene 
                    County.
                    Madison County, Virginia


DATE:

1852.

OWNERS:

Miss Julia Conway Clark, present owner. (1936)

DESCRIPTION:

The family graveyard is to the right of the old home on the Firner plantation, 
about fifty yards distant and enclosed with a rock wall about three feet and 
eighteen inches thick.  There are some boxwood in this old graveyard along with 
some trees.  The yard contains about fifteen graves, some having inscriptions 
which are readable and others which are not.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


Mary S. Conway
daughter of John and Mary F. Conway
Only sister of Mrs. Harriet Sims
Born Oct. 17th 1814
Died December 25th, 1852
The sisters were lovely in their lives and
undivided in death


G. S. Conway
Born December 25, 1817
Died March 20, 1894
At Rest


John F. Conway
Born December 9, 1783
Died April 5, 1859
Blessed are the dead who died in the Lord


Mary F. Conway
Born October 24, 1793
Died March 3, 1855
Blessed are the dead who died in the Lord


Virgin
daughter of A.S. and Julia Conway
Aged 5 months
Green grows the turf on the child of my best days.
None knew thee but loved thee.
None names thee but to pray.


Harriet Eliza Stuart
wife of Hiram Sins
daughter of John F. and Mary Conway
Born July 20, 1812
Died August 21, 1848
The hour is coming when all that are in 
their graves shall hear the voice of the
Son of God and come forth.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Miss Julia Conway Clark, Hood, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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