ROANOKE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Blue Ridge Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Blue Ridge Cemetery:
                  1937 Aug. 20
                  Research made by Ernest H. Weaver

Cemetery Location:  At Blue Ridge Church, on Hardy Road, east of Vinton, 
                    Virginia.
                    Roanoke Co., Virginia


DATE:

None.

OWNERS:

August 4, 1802 Daniel James & Thomas Bandy to Mathew Pate, Charles Horn, Abner 
Howell, Stephan Ferris, Samuel James & James Howell, Trustees, 2 acres, 64 
poles, for Church and burial grounds to be known as the  Blue Ridge Meeting 
House.  Book 8, page 38, Fincastle, Virginia, and  Book 24, page 254, Salem, 
Virginia.

DESCRIPTION:

A public cemetery, fenced and well kept.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


Jonah James
1783 – 1843


Annie L.
Wife of Ewel Meadow
Born – Aug. 22, 1817
Died Jan. 25, 1853


Elizabeth
Consort of John H. Lemon
Died – July 3m 1851
Age – 23 yrs. 11 mo.


Thomas J. Bush
Born – Jan. 18, 1797
Died – Dec. 26, 1865


A. Bush
Age – 81 yrs.


T. J. Bush
Apr. 1, 1852
Jan. 1853


Mary Bush
Wife of Thomas J.
Died – 1893
Age – 93 yrs.


P.  Bush
Age – 78 yrs


John H. Vinyard
Nov. 11, 1819
June 21, 1865


Wm. Feather
Jan. 12, 1798
Aug. 2, 1863


Jane Feather
Feb. 17, 1812
July 11, 1866



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Eliza James, Vinton, Virginia

Deed of 1802, Book 8, page 38, Fincastle, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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