PAGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Jones Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


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

Cemetery Location:  9.5 miles north of Luray, Virginia. 7.5 miles north on Route 
                    #12, thence 1.75 miles right, on Route #615, thence .25 mile 
                    left on Route #611, thence east 500 years on private road.  
                    South side of road.
                    Page County, Virginia


DATE:

About 1800.

OWNERS:

1816, Margaret Jones deeded to Wharton Jones
1837, Commissioners of Wharton Jones deeded to Nancy Jones, wife of Wharton 
            Jones.
1868, Commissioners for Nancy Jones deeded to George M. Jones.
1869, George M. Jones deeded to Thomas Menefee.
1889, Thomas Menefee deeded to John W. Vaughan Sr., except the graveyard.

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is located in the woods, and could not be discovered unless 
attention had been called to it.  It has evidently been many years since there 
was any care given it.  It lies at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and 
must be very old.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

It is probable that many of the Woods family who first owned he place are buried 
in unmarked graves here.  Nancy, the wife of Wharton Jones was Nancy Woods 
before her marriage.  It is thought that Wharton Jones was buried here about 
1840.  Nancy Jones was also buried here, but Solan Bell had the Jones bodies 
moved to Luray cemetery about 1890.  There are now a few stone markers left 
without any inscriptions which are supposed to be members of the Woods family.  
The tombstones marked are members of the Strickler family who perhaps have no 
relatives in the County or the graves would receive some attention.

The following are the inscriptions:


Mary Jane
daughter of Emanuel H. & E. Strickler
Died Jan 3, 1863


In Memory of
Elizabeth H.
Wife of Emanuel H. Strickler
Died Aug. 12, 1862
In the 20th year of her age.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mrs. John Bailey, Rileyville, Virginia

Page County Court Records:
Deed Book C, page 438
Deed Book N, page 212
Deed Book O, page 115
Deed Book 13, page 354

Tombstone Inscriptions

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