ROANOKE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Kefawver Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Kefawver Graveyard:
                  1937 Nov. 18
                  Research made by William C. Sponaugle

Cemetery Location:  On west side of Route #116, and north of Mount Pleasant 
                    about one mile, and three miles east of Roanoke, Virginia, 
                    opposite Silk Mill, south, and south of the  Roanoke River.
                    Roanoke Co., Virginia


DATE:

Peter Kefawver was buried here as early as 1814, but there is no marker or slab.

OWNERS:

Patented to Peter Kefawver and Samuel Seagraves a certain tract or parcel of 
land for 200 pounds...1804

Peter Kefawver deeded to his heirs...1823

Peter Kefawver Heirs and descendants deeded to Roanoke Gas & Water Company, 27 
acres for $20,000...1907

Roanoke Gas & Water Company, Salem, Virginia, present owners. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is enclosed by a cement wall, thirty by fifty feet and four feet 
high.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The following inscriptions are to be seen:


Philip Kefawver
Departed this life March 31, 1858
Aged 23 years, 6 days


In Memory of
Mrs. Eva C. Kefawver
Wife of Daniel Kefawver
Born July 2, 1835
Died April 8th, 1860


William Kefawver
Died 1887


Peter Kefawver, Jr.
Died 1874
Aged 96 years


Susan Kefawver
Wife of Peter Kefawver
Died September 1881

The Kefawvers were of German descent and settled in this part of the county 
about 1800 or earlier; they were farmers.

David Kefawver was preparing to enter college when the War Between the States 
broke out, and he enlisted in 1862, in Company I, 28th Regiment, Virginia 
Infantry Picketts Division, and served three years.  He participated in the raid 
into Maryland, and took part in all the battles around Richmond, and was in 
active service when the War ended.  He was elected Commissioner of Revenue of 
the second District, Roanoke County, and ably filled the Office.




SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Honorable J. A. Bear, Roanoke, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

Roanoke and Botetourt County Records:
Deed Book 8, page 492, Fincastle, Virginia
Deed Book 41, page 338, Salem, Virginia

History of Roanoke County by McCauley

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