WARREN:  CEMETERY RECORDS – DRUID HILL GRAVEYARD

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, Druid Hill graveyard: 1936 Oct. 5/ Research 
made by Edith Jackson.

Cemetery Location:  .25 mile north from Page County Line on Route #12
                    Warren County



A history of the lower Shenandoah Valley says: Among the early settlers of 
Warren County, Virginia was Colonel Thomas Allen, son of Robert Allen and 
Deborah Montgomery his wife.  He served as a soldier in the Revolution and for 
gallantry was presented by his state with a sword.  He left an estate comprising 
over six thousand acres of land stretching for miles along the south fork of the 
Shenandoah river.  Colonel Allen died in Shenandoah County, Virginia July 15, 
1822 and is buried in the Millar-Allen graveyard situated upon the home part of 
the old plantation, across the creek and within sight from “Stone House” where 
also lies Abigail, his wife, who died September 1, 1823.  The land on which 
“Druid Hill” stands, is a part of this larger tract belonging to Colonel Thomas 
Allen, having been kept in the family for give generations.  “Druid Hill” was 
built in 1873 after the marriage of  Roberta Gardner, a great-granddaughter of 
Colonel Thomas Allen to Samuel E. Macatee of Hardford County, Maryland.  The 
house stands on a high hill amid century old oaks and commands an extended view 
of the Massanutten Mountains and the Shenandoah River.