ROANOKE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Wertz Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Wertz graveyard:
                  1937 July 21
                  Research made by William Clay Sponaugle

Cemetery Location:  1007 Warrenton Rd., Ral. Ct. Annex (Removed to Evergreen)
                    Roanoke Co., Virginia


DATE:

Unknown.

OWNERS:

Is owned by The Evergreen Cemetery Corporation. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

Is a beautiful well kept perpetual care public cemetery of many acres.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The inscriptions are as follows:

Mary Wertz
Born June 25th, 1832
Died March 20th, 1847


Katherine Wanger
Born June 4th, 1770
Died 1837


Sarah Wertz
Born Jan. 5th, 1840
Died 1872


Hannah Kern
Born Apr. 23d. 1805
Died 1839
and buried in a Casket of Iron.


The bodies of twelve Children were removed but nothing is known just whom they 
were.

The Wertz family were known to have been very wealthy, and owners of numerous 
slaves.   Several of them were soldiers in the War between the States, with the 
Confederate Cause.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  This information has been secured from City Engineer Office and the 
            Manage of Evergreen Cemetery.

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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