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This cemetery is located on 280 Green Hill Lane, Churchville, Augusta County, Virginia. Find a Grave
From 1750, all burials in Staunton took place in the 2 ½ acre plot of Augusta Parish Church. By the late 1840’s this cemetery in the center of town was so crowded that it was nearly impossible to dig a new grave without unearthing an old one. A new cemetery was needed. A committee was formed in 1848 to pursue the creation of a new burial ground, and on February 24, 1849, Thornrose Cemetery Com...
Official Web Site This project is a table of contents for all projects relating to this County of Virginia. Please feel free to add profiles of anyone who was born, lived or died in this county. County formation Augusta County formed from Orange County in 1738 Botetourt County was formed from Augusta in 1769; Fincastle County created in 1772 from Botetourt abolished in 1776 later divide...
Borden Land Grant in Rockbridge County, Virginia, November 6, 1739 Introduction This is a preliminary listing of persons believed to be among the original settlers of Borden's Grant. No contemporary list of these settlers seems to have survived, and we are forced to build the list more or less from scratch based on early court records. HIldebrand's 1960 map shows the land ownership of p...
The Battle of Piedmont was fought June 5, 1864, in the village of Piedmont, Augusta County, Virginia. Union Maj. Gen. David Hunter engaged Confederates under Brig. Gen. William E. "Grumble" Jones north of Piedmont. After severe fighting, Jones was killed and the Confederates were routed. Hunter occupied Staunton on June 6 and soon began to advance on Lynchburg, destroying military stores and pu...
The cemetery is located on 63 Bethel Green Road, Middlebrook, Augusta County, Virginia. Mailing address in Staunton. Find a Grave
The Battle of Piedmont was fought June 5, 1864, in the village of Piedmont, Augusta County, Virginia. Union Maj. Gen. David Hunter engaged Confederates under Brig. Gen. William E. "Grumble" Jones north of Piedmont. After severe fighting, Jones was killed and the Confederates were routed. Hunter occupied Staunton on June 6 and soon began to advance on Lynchburg, destroying military stores and pu...
Founded in 1740, this is the oldest Presbyterian house of worship in continuous use in Virginia It is located on U.S. Rt. 11, 7 miles north of Staunton in the community of Fort Defiance, VA. We're 1/4-mile south of the traffic signal in Fort Defiance, Augusta County, Virginia. It is also known as Old Stone Church Cemetery and Old Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery . Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Craigsville Cemetery, Craigsville, Augusta County, Georgia. Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Hebron Cemetery, Hebron, Augusta County, Virginia. It is also known as Hebron Presbyterian Church Cemetery . Find a Grave
Wikipedia Staunton National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the Shenandoah Valley, in Staunton, Virginia. Find a Grave
UPDATED 2015-06-30, 3:14 PM:PRIMARY PA SOURCES SHOWING A POAGE-RENICK CONNECTION:There are multiple primary sources from the 1700s suggesting that Robert Poage's wife Elizabeth was actually a Renick. Here is a list of those from Pennsylvania:1711 – The earliest record of George Renick comes from a document signed by members of a new Presbyterian community in the town of Abington, PA in 1711:“We...