PAGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Kite Cemetery ----¤¤¤---- Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Kite graveyard: 1938 Feb. 17 Research made by Cannie C. Morris Cemetery Location: .5 mile south of Alma Ridge Bridge, on Route #258. Page County, Virginia DATE: Unknown OWNERS: Noah Kite Sr. Noah Kite Jr. George L. Kite W.E. Martin, present owner. (1938) DESCRIPTION: This is a very old graveyard, just how old no one can say as there are no tombstones. The only stones are of limestone and the graves are in bad condition, grown up in trees and bushes and the graves sunken. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Noah Kite Sr., Noah Kite Jr. and George L. Kite are buried in this cemetery. George L. Kite built the house now owned and occupied by Mr. W.E. Martin. Noah Kite Jr. owned and operated the Columbia Mill which was located on the Shenandoah River at this place. He and his wife and four of his children were drowned here in the terrible flood of 1870. The descendants of Noah Kite Jr. have recently erected a monument here hearing the following inscription: Noah Kite, Born March 14, 1815 Isabell V. his wife, Born Nov. 9, 1822 Their children: Elenora Catharine, Born July 8, 1845 Eudora Angelene, Born Dec. 7, 1853 Abraham Jackson, Born Jan. 8, 1862 Howard Lee, Born March 25, 1865 During the great flood of the Shenandoah River all of the Kite family named above were drowned near this place on Sept. 29, 1870. The hours part us but they bring us together again. SOURCES OF INFORMATION: Informant: Jasper Kite, Otto Kite, John Short All of Shenandoah, Virginia ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Joan Renfrow NOTICE: I have no relationship or further information in regards to this family. ___________________________________________________________________