MADISON COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Andrew Gaar Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Andrew Gaar graveyard at Loronza:
                  1937 Mar. 25
                  Research made by Mrs. Evelyn W. Tunison

Cemetery Location:  5 miles east of Haywood, Virginia, on Route #609, at Gaar 
                    Run bridge on south side of Route #609.  300 yards northwest 
                    of the old house site.
                    Madison County, Virginia


DATE:

1824.

OWNERS:

(blank)

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is located on a hill 300 yards north of the house site.  The lot 
is possibly 50 foot square with large trees on the side.  The fence is of well 
formed rocks three feet thick, and three feet tall.  Bushes cover the entire 
lot.   There are about 30 graves, only two of these have stones with 
inscriptions, one of which has fallen with the inscription on bottom side and 
could not be lifted.  The remainder of the graves are only marked with rock 
slabs.

There originally was a rock wall around this, however, today it is down and many 
of the rocks have been hauled away for other purposes.  In other words this spot 
is in a neglected condition for an old graveyard, not even a fence around it, 
however the buttercup and periwinkle covers the outside edges of this lot.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inscription:

Departed this life on the 17th
day of October 1824
James Newman Field
In the 17th year of his age
The Lord hath taken away these seed, be the way
of the Lord.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscription

Visit by worker.

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