SHENANDOAH:  CEMETERY RECORDS – BOWMAN AND BURNER CEMETERY

Contributed by:  Joan Renfrow

NOTICE:  I have no relationship or further information in regards to this 
family.  

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Bowman and Burner Cemetery: 1937 Oct. 11
                  Research made by Zula Gochenour

Cemetery Location:  3 miles south of Detrick, Virginia, in Powell’s Fort Valley, 
                    1 mile on private road.
                    Shenandoah County




The Bowman graveyard is on top of a high hill, within sight of the home, a 
distance of one-half mile or more.  A tall pine tree guards this spot, and a 
fine view of the valley is had from this hill.  The graveyard is neglected – a 
fire fence is broken down, graves are sunken, stones fallen in, briars, weeds in 
profusion.  Old mountain rock without inscriptions mark some of the graves, 
while later ones have regular tombstones.

The  Burner Graveyard is in another field at the foot of a hill, in a bend of 
the road which is just outside this field.  This graveyard is in even worse 
condition than the Bowman one, and is evidently older, because there are no 
tombstones except low irregular moss covered mountain rock, most of them sunken 
in the ground.

George Bowman was buried in the Golladay Graveyard, about 2 miles away, while 
his wife, Rebecca Bowman, was buried on this farm of Nimrod Bowman.

Susan Bushong, who died March 23, 1865, is also buried here.

In the Burner cemetery, only one name could be deciphered crudely out in a black 
rock.

Mary Burner, 1805

Powell’s Fort Valley is full of such small graveyards, of a few families.  
During the War Between the States difficulties often arose in regards to 
burials.  It is said that the most accessible graveyard would be used, hence 
families were separated in their place of burial.