ROANOKE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Bonsack Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Bonsack Cemetery:
                  1936 Sep. 30
                  Research made by William C. Sponaugle

Cemetery Location:  North of the town on Bonsack, Virginia, on a hill over-
                    looking the town and community.
                    Roanoke Co., Virginia


DATE:

About 1790.

OWNERS:

It is owned by the town and community of Bonsack, and is a perpetual reserve.

DESCRIPTION:

This is a very old cemetery and will date back to about 1790.  It is fenced off 
mostly in family sections by iron, some wood, some cement.  It contains about 
one half acre.  It is a public cemetery, and very poorly cared for. (1936)

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inscriptions:


Sarah
Wife of Jacob Bonsack
and daughter of Michael & Susan Whitmore
Died Oct. 15th, 1881
Aged 60 yrs., 8 mo., 22 da.


Susannah Harshbarger
Wife of John Bonsack, dec’d.
Died Apr. 24th, 1888
Aged 89 yrs.
Psa. 23:1 – “The Lord is my shepherd”.


John Bonsack
Born 1790
Aged 66 yrs.


John H. Berry
Died Feb. 6th, 1850
Age 63 yrs.


There are many other graves much older, but there are no inscriptions and have 
only rough stones for markers.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Dr. J. S. St. Clair, Roanoke, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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