ROANOKE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – St. Clair Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The St. Clair graveyard:
                  1936 Sep. 30
                  Research made by William C. Sponaugle

Cemetery Location:  A few hundred yards southeast of the present Norfolk and 
                    Western Railroad Station in Bonsack, Virginia, on a knoll 
                    over-looking the little town.
                    Roanoke Co., Virginia


DATE:

Unknown.

OWNERS:

It is owned by Dr. J. S. St. Clair, a direct descendant of Mr. George St. Clair, 
who purchased part of an earlier grant in 1792.  It has continued in the direct 
family name to the present time. (1926)

DESCRIPTION:

It is well kept, surrounded by an iron fence, and owned as a private graveyard.  
It is more than a hundred years old (1936).  Some graves have no markers with 
inscriptions.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inscriptions:


J. F.
Son of Palmer and Missoura St. Clair
Born March 1859
Died Feb. 29, 1860


Palmer St. Clair
1819 – 1885


Missoura Tynes
Wife of Palmer St. Clair
1831 – 1896


R. F. McNeal, Fincastle Rifles C.S.A., who came from Pennsylvania and espoused 
the Southern Cause became a devoted friend to the St. Clair family, was buried 
by them in their own graveyard, and honored as a member of their own family.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

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

Tombstone Inscriptions

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