PAGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES –  Abshire Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Abshire graveyard:
                  1937 Feb 3
                  Research made by Cannie C. Morris

Cemetery Location:  2 miles south of Stanley, Virginia, north of Route #628.
                    Page County, Virginia


DATE:  Unknown



OWNERS:  The present owner is Mr. Will Painter. (1937)



DESCRIPTION:  This was a public burying ground at one time; although it was 
              always privately owned, it was used by the community in which it 
              was located.  It is in very bad condition, all grown up in trees 
              and bushes, and it could not be told that there ever was a 
              graveyard here.



HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Here we find a very old graveyard back on the hillside of Mr. Will Painter’s 
farm.  No one know how old it is.  The older generations of the Abshires, 
Pences, and Campbells are buried here.  Campbells were the last ones to be 
buried here in 1887 and I am informed that it was a very old graveyard then, and 
all indications bear out this statement.  There are no names or dates on any of 
the markers.




SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mr. Jim Good, whose father owned this old place through most of the 
            1800’s, and it has been in possession of the Good relatives ever 
            since.  Stanley, Virginia.

Visit by worker.

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