PAGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Foltz Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Foltz graveyard:
                  1936 Sep. 25
                  Research made by Cannie C. Morris

Cemetery Location:  1.5 miles southwest of Newport, Virginia
                    Page County, Virginia


DATE:

Earliest inscription, 1798.

OWNERS:

Raymond Foltz, present owner. (1936)

DESCRIPTION:

Only two of the many graves in this cemetery have any inscriptions on the 
markers, and these are in German.  E.F.A. Folse (now spelled Foltz) was the 
first of the name to settle here.  He is the ancestor of the present Mayor of 
Shenandoan, Virginia, Mr. J.L. Foltz.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


The inscriptions on the graves are as follows:

E.F.A. Folse
GEBON BENIM JAH 1858
SEPTEMBER 29
DVOBGEN 51- 1
GERMOINI UND 20
TACI TCN 10 JUNI
US IMJI 1809


J.C. UCP 1798
D 16 DCN


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  John Raymond and J.L. Foltz, Shenandoah, Virginia
             J.E. Malers, Shenandoah, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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