ROANOKE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Howbert Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Howbert cemetery:
                  1936 Nov. 16
                  Research made by William C. Sponaugle

Cemetery Location:  2 miles east of Salem, Virginia near the old Salem and
                    Lynchburg turnpike, and six miles from Roanoke Virginia, on 
                    the north side and about four hundred yards from Peters 
                    Creek bridge in a northwestern direction.
                    Roanoke Co., Virginia


DATE:

1853, date of earliest grave (marker).

OWNERS:

It has been a private graveyard but is now included in a farm owned by Dr. B. C. 
Moomaw. (1936)

DESCRIPTION:

Briars and a small clump of trees grow over the graves in an open field, and it 
will soon be obliterated for the plowing comes nearer each year.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Nothing is known about the early settlers other than that some of them who owned 
this estate which was granted to Methuselah Griffith in 1756 by George II, were 
buried here.

The following inscription is to be seen:


In Memory of
Elizabeth Howbert
Died July 24, 1853
Aged 84 years & 4 months



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mr. Abner Petty whose ancestors once owned the estate.

Tombstone Inscriptions

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