PAGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Graves Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Graves Methodist Episcopal Church cemetery:
                  1935 Oct. 8
                  Research made by Cannie C. Morris

Cemetery Location:  .25 mile north of Stanley, Virginia, on Route #12.
                    Page County, Virginia


DATE:

1860.

OWNERS:

The Trustees of Graves Methodist Episcopal Church. (1936)

DESCRIPTION:

The older graves do not have tombstones.  The cemetery is in very good 
condition.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Here we have an old cemetery, The Graves Chapel, as it is called, and at one
time was called the old Oakum Church and cemetery when it was located on the 
Hawkskill Creek, but is was moved about 1860 and now is called Graves Chapel.

There are some very old graves here, but no inscriptions on the older graves.

General Hampton used this old church in the winter of 1863 as his headquarters, 
and during his stay here two of his men died and was buried in this old 
cemetery.

The following inscriptions are to be seen on two of the tombstones:

Francis A.
Wife of Peter Long
Born March 15, 1833
Died March 8, 1863
Aged 29 years
11 months & 23 days


Paschal Graves
Departed this life
August 28, 1860
Aged 64 years
& 2 months




SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  Mr. William Price
             Mr. S.C. Jenkins

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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