PITTSYLVANIA CO., VA - CEMETERIES – Rorer Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Rorer graveyard:
                  1936 Oct. 8
                  Research made by Mamie M. Ritter

Cemetery Location:  Pullens, Virginia on Route $605
                    Pittsylvania Co., Virginia


DATE:

1894.

OWNERS:

Rorer and descendants.

DESCRIPTION:

There are a great many old graves in this graveyard, but only this one stone 
with name of Rorer.  The older members of this family are buried here but do not 
have markers.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Among the settlers from Pennsylvania in 1774, was Harmon Cook who purchased 
large tracts of land in the northwestern part of the county.   Cook was a 
colonizer who brought in many families from Pennsylvania to Virginia.

Young Abram Rohrer, a native of Switzerland followed Cook from Pennsylvania to  
Virginia, and marrying Cook’s daughter founded the Rorer family of the county.  
It was he who had the H. dropped from the name Abram Rorer and his wife had four 
sons:
Rudolph
Charles
David
Abram


B. C. Rorer
Born June 8, 1828
Died Dec. 15, 1907
Asleep in Jesus
and
Emma Rorer
(wife)
Feb. 26, 1842
Oct. 25, 1894
Safe in the arms of Jesus



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Miss Maggie Rorer, Gretna, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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