PAGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Sam Comer Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Sam Comer graveyard:
                  1936 Oct. 19
                  Research made by Cannie C. Morris

Cemetery Location:  .25 mile east of Ingham, Virginia, on the hill side east of 
                    Norfolk Western Railroad.
                    Page County, Virginia


DATE:

Oldest inscription, 1816.

OWNERS:

Mrs. S.P. Comer, present owner. (1936)

DESCRIPTION:

This is a privately owned graveyard, with many graves and few markers.  The 
graveyard is well over one hundred years old, but is in very good condition.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

This is a very large country graveyard, and like most of the old graves they 
have very few inscriptions on the markers.   The graves of W.H. Ory is the 
oldest, being well over one hundred years old.  Michael and Susannah Summers are 
the grandfather and grandmother of Captain George Summers who was executed at 
Rude’s Hill, near Newmarket by a Federal officer, June 27, 1865.

The following are the inscriptions on the tombstones:


In Memory of E.D. Doeeffmyer
Died March 20, 1855


W. H. Mayao
Died 1844


In Memory of 
W.M. Ory
Died May 21, 1816
Aged 73 years, 3 months, 22 days


Michael Summers
Died May 31, 1842
Aged 72 years


Susannah Summers
Died May 21, 1825
Aged 71 years, 11 months




SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mrs. S.P. Comer, Ingham, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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