RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Griffin Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Tapp and Griffin graveyard:
                  1936 Sep. 18
                  Research made by Helen Gore

Cemetery Location:  From Amissville, Virginia on Route #211, thence 1 mile off 
                    Route #211 on Route #643
                    Rappahannock Co., Virginia


DATE:

1818.

OWNERS:

E. A. Tapp, Amissville, Virginia.  (1936)

DESCRIPTION:

This is a well kept graveyard.  The grass is trimmed and flowers and shrubbery 
are planted about it.  Its caretakers have great pride in keeping its appearance 
nice.  The following inscriptions were coped from markers:


Elizabeth Griffin
Wife of John S. Whitecarver
Born Feb. 11, 1811
Died Dec. 20, 1842


Wayne Whitecarver
Born Sept. 11, 1835
Died Oct. 1837


Henry Griffin
Captain in the Revolutionary War
Died in 1818


Nancy Baker
1859


Thos. Griffin
Born Oct. 1807
Died 1834


HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

One Revolutionary soldier is buried here, Captain Henry Griffin.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mr. E. A. Tapp, Amissville, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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