CITY OF NEWPORT NEWS, VA - CEMETERIES – Providence Ammish Church Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Providence Graveyard:
                  1937 Mar. 9
                  Research made by Dorothy Diffenderfer

Cemetery Location:  2 miles south of Warwick Court House, Virginia, on Route 
                    #60, on the west side, directly on the highway.
                    City of Newport News, Virginia


DATE:

1910, date of oldest grave (marker).

OWNERS:

Providence Ammish Church.

DESCRIPTION:

Providence Graveyard is situated in an open field.  There are a few small shrubs 
planted.  The graveyard is very small, having not over 10 tombstones.  It is 
kept in fair condition.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The following inscriptions were copied from the tombstones:


Father
Christian K. Miller
Born  Dec. 6 1859
At Maulbrum
Wurtenberg, Germany
Died April 19, 1910


Mother
Abbie M. Miller
March 12, 1840
June 17, 1928
In that beautiful home
Will meet each other again


Father
Rev. Joseph Zook
Born May 28, 1845
Died Oct. 7, 1918


Mother
Sallie Zook
Born Feb. 14, 1851
Died Jan. 27, 1928


Abraham K. Kurts
Born Aug. 28, 1854
Died April 6, 1922


Husband
William D. Longreer
April 26, 1852
May 3, 1932


Samuel H. Glick
Oct. 12, 1862
May 17, 1920



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

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