PAGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Rinehart Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Rinehart graveyard:
                  1936 Nov. 3
                  Research made by Cannie C. Morris

Cemetery Location:  2.5 miles north of Newport, Virginia.  Just west of the Old 
                    Gordonsville Newmarket Turnpike.
                    Page County, Virginia


DATE:

1857, date of the oldest inscription on tombstone.

OWNERS:

G. M. Painter, present owner. (1936)

DESCRIPTION:

This is a private family graveyard, but in very bad condition being overgrown 
with briars and bushes.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The old Ambrose Rinehart graveyard like other country graveyards has no
inscriptions on the oldest tombstones.  However, there are authentic reports 
that this is a very old graveyard which has long been a landmark in Page County.

The following are the inscriptions on the tombstones:


A. Rinehart
Died Dec. 7, 1857
Born 11 May, 1788


Andrew Rinehart
Born Nov. 5, 1828
Died Nov. 6, 1862


Elizabeth Rinehart
Born Nov. 26, 1827
Died Feb. 5, 1891



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  G. M. Painter and Thomas Alger
             Newport, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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