ROANOKE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Keagy Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Benjamin Keagy cemetery:
                  1937 Jan. 5
                  Research made by Ernest Weaver

Cemetery Location:  3 miles southeast of Salem, Virginia, south of Roanoke Run.
                    Roanoke Co., Virginia


DATE:

1872, date of the oldest grave (marker).

OWNERS:

Keagy Family. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

The Benjamin Keagy Cemetery is private. One part of it is fenced and is well 
kept.  The other part is not well kept and is not fenced.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

This cemetery is near the old Zion Lutheran Church on the Lee Highway between 
Roanoke and  Salem.  This church seems to have been built near 1826.


Benjamin Keagy
July 22, 1816
Mar. 26, 1872


Catherine Keagy
Feb. 19, 1815
Mar. 28, 1877

In all probability, several persons were buried here before 1860.  Many graves 
are to be found but not marked.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mr. J. W. Walace, Roanoke, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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