ROANOKE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Thrasher Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Trasher graveyard:
                  1936 Nov. 26
                  Research made by William C. Sponaugle

Cemetery Location:  6 miles northwest of Roanoke, Virginia, and about one mile 
                    north of Vinton, near the Vinton Road, east side of the 
                    hill, and south of the Lynchburg and Salem Turnpike about 
                    one half mile and on the east side of the hill.
                    Roanoke Co., Virginia


DATE:

The old graveyard may have been started as early as 1775.

OWNERS:

S. S. Vinyard. (1936)

DESCRIPTION:

The graveyard is a perpetual reserve, and is private.  The condition is very 
poor (1936).  Tombstones are broken down, some scattered, others are leaning, 
and some lying out in the field.  There must be a hundred graves with no markers 
other than bare stones and others with none.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The Trasher families were among the earliest founders of Methodism in Roanoke 
County.

Inscriptions:


In Memory of 
Frederick Trasher
Born September 16, 1779
Departed this life June 25, 1852
Aged 82 years, 9 months, 9 days


In Memory of
Paul Thrasher
Born September 16, 1772
Departed this life December 21, 1848
Aged 75 years, 3 months and 5 days


In Memory of
Sallie
Wife of Paul Thrasher
Died July 5, 1881
Aged 105


In Memory of our Father
Maston James
Died January 5, 1858
In the 55th year
At Rest


In Memory of our Mother
Della James
Died December 11, 1889
In her 79th year
Rest in peace


In Memory of
Miss Galaspy
April 26, 1883


And 
Lorence E
Viola A.
Children of J.E. and F. F. Gates



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

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