WARREN:  CEMETERY RECORDS – EARLE 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, Earle graveyard: 1936 Oct. 9/ Research made by 
Josiah L. Dickinson.

Cemetery Location:  On the right side of the road (about 75 yards) and near
                    (about 150 yards) where Willow Brook or Muddy Run enters the 
                    Shenandoah River.
                    Warren County



It is said that there were two hundred graves here.  How there is nothing to 
indicate the site but the one headstone.  It may never have been other than the 
place of burial of the Earle family.  Not far away and across the creek, is the 
site referred to in Sam Earle’s Will as “The place called the old Church House”.  
There may have been a burial site there but even the exact site of the church is 
not known.  The diary of an English woman who travelled in America, at about 
this time referred to the quaint practice of the Colonists of burying their dead 
in their yards.  It is said that as late of 35 years ago there were a number of 
stones yet standing that seemed to mark the boundaries of the plot, but there 
was nothing to indicate that it had ever been an extensive burial ground.


Here Lies the Body
of Anna the Wife of
Samuel Earle of this County
Who Departed this Life the 30
day of December ADomini 1748
in the 41 year of Her Age

“She was a Religious Devout & Godly
Woman a Loving & Virtuous Wife
and Indulgent Mother, a Liberal Mistress
a kind Neighbor a true Patern of goodness
an Example to all her Followers
and by all much Lamented

I pray to God his Blessings and
All Mortals to make such an end”