CITY OF NEWPORT NEWS, VA - CEMETERIES – Warwick River Mennonite Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


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

Cemetery Location:  .6 mile west of Denbigh, Virginia, on Route #617, thence 1.3 
                    miles south on Route #103, thence .1 mile west on Route 
                    #251, on north side, directly on the highway.
                    City of Newport News, Virginia


DATE:

1816.

OWNERS:

Warwick River Mennonite Church.

DESCRIPTION:

The Mennonite Graveyard is located on the sloping side of a small ravine, 
extending into an open field.  There are several large oak trees in the 
cemetery.  This graveyard is quite large.  It is kept in excellent condition.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The following inscriptions were copied from the tombstones:


Father
Jacob W. Kraus
Aug. 1, 1844
June 20, 1915 
and
Mother
Elizabeth A. Kraus
Jan. 23, 1849
Nov. 30, 1925
Gone but not forgotten


Mother
Anna Brenneman
Born Oct. 7, 1858
Died Jan. 5, 1934
Aged 75 yrs
and
Father
Benjamin Brenneman
Born Sept. 27, 1855
Died Feb. 8, 1919
Aged 63 yrs


Grandfather
John Kempf
Mr. 18, 1816
Nov. 6, 1904


William L. Woodland
Born May 28, 1826
Died April 28, 1911


Mother
Fannie V. Shenk
Born Oct. 30, 1865
Died Oct. 3, 1904
Sorrow that heaven cannot heal


Joseph Hertzler
Jan. 7, 1849
May 13, 1920
and
Nancy J. Miller
his wife
Mar. 3, 1857
Jan. 19, 1915


Simon P. Yoder
1847 – 1926
O Glorious Thought
from Death to Rise
and be forever
with the Lord


Fannie
Wife of I.D. Hertzler
Born Aug. 14, 1855
Died Oct. 15, 1910
Aged 55 years
A loved one from us has gone
A voice we love is stilled
A place is vacant in our Home
Which never can be filled


Jacob Hahn
1839 – 1926
and
Anna Hahn
1849 – 1933


In Memory of
Martin B. Shenk
Sept. 7, 1854
Mar. 6, 1930
and
In Memory of
Catharine Shenk
Oct. 31, 1852
Aug. 12, 1921
At Rest



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

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