ROANOKE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Woods Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Wood cemetery:
                  1937 Jan. 20
                  Research made by Ernest Weaver

Cemetery Location:  6 miles west of Catawba Sanatorium, Catawba, Virginia.
                    Roanoke Co., Virginia


DATE:

1800, date of oldest grave.

OWNERS:

Woods Family.

DESCRIPTION:

The Woods Cemetery is both private and public.  It contains many old graves and 
early settlers are buried here.  It is fenced but part of it is not well kept.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Joseph Woods by will of March 31, devises his property to Pricilla, his wife.

Christy Latimer married Martha Glen in 1820.

Jacob Doosing settled in Roanoke County in 1797, his son William was born in 
1800 and died 1863.

Inscriptions:


Joseph Woods
Died June 16, 1848
In 77th yr.


Isabella  Woods
Wife of Joseph Woods
Died June 18, 1836


William Doosing
June 26, 1800
Dec. 17, 1864


Jacob Doosing
D- Sept. 9, 1842
Age LXXIII y. 6 mo.


Catherine Doosing
D- July 2, 1800
Age XXXVII Y. 4M


Martha
Wife of Christopher Latimer
Aug. 8, 1799
Mar. 28, 1855




SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Roanoke County Court Records. (Will Book I)
Christiansburg Marriage records. (Book A, p. 172)

History of Virginia by McCauley. (Vol. 5, p. 567)

Tombstone Inscriptions

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