"Mary Whitesel, widow of Peter Whitesel Sr. and her eight children came from Maryland to Virginia in 1778. In 1824 her son Peter Jr. donated the land on which a log church building was erected. The first United Brethren Church building in Virginia. The log structure was replaced in 1874 and in 1893 the second building was replaced by a frame building which was removed in 1976. Mother Mary Whitesel is buried in an unmarked grave."
Note by Brett & Judy Nordgren: The Widow Mary story is not correct. Peter Weitzel, Sr., his wife Anne and 6 or 7 of their children, who eventually numbered 9, came from Leitersburg, Maryland sometime around 1791.
Harrisonburg Rockingham Historical Society
Rockingham County Tombstones by Cemetery
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103302789/anna-weitzel
photo of monument; https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/872275...
NOTE* this does Not support the 1815 date of that Peter Whitesells death... it seems he passed in MD before they moved here...
