Harrisonburg Rockingham Historical Society
Rockingham County Tombstones by Cemetery
Cemetery |
Bible Cemetery |
Location |
Fulks Run area, Rockingham County, Virginia. From
Fulks Run Grocery, go west on Hwy 259 for 1 mile. Turn left at Valleyland store onto Route
818 (Little Dry River Road). Go a few miles and turn left onto Route 631 (Dull Hunt Road).
About 1 mile you will reach Kathleen & Tom Ritchie's home. You have to drive through
several gates of their farm to reach the cemetery which is at the edge of the woods next
to the farm pond. |
Notes |
There are no graves recorded in this cemetery. The
following notes were furnished by Patricia Turner Ritchie. "Tom Ritchie's brother,
Charles Ritchie of Rt. 2 Broadway, pointed out the cemetery to us about 1996. No carved
stones. There were 9 depressions and rock markers, but there could have been others. Once
Charles' father, Algernon 'Gem' Ritchie, was nearby and heard a sound like crying coming
from the graveyard. When he investigated, Susie Bible was in the cemetery crying. Some of
her people are buried there." (Pat Ritchie note: Susie Bible was an old lady who
walked the roads with a pack on her back. Little children found her scary. My grandmother
Ruth Turner & my aunt Lettie Albrite remember seeing her when they were children.
Sometimes the children would play "Susie Bible" by carrying a sack on their
backs. I have not found who Susie's parents were but I do have a picture of her from Nora
Trumbo Heatwole's collection. There is a ridge nearby which Gem & his children used to
call the "Susie Tea Ridge." Kathleen thinks it was named for Susie Bible but is
not sure. Donald Ritchie, Charles & Tom's nephew, has a log home past Kathleen's house
which is on the "Bible place." Bible Run flows out of this hollow. Adam &
Fannie Fawley Shickle used to live on the Bible place. He told Kathleen that he lived good
up there. He didn't have any problems until the hunting laws & seasons were put into
effect. He said that the hunting laws weren't God's laws, and he continued to hunt since
he wasn't breaking God's law.) |
| Survey Date and Recorder | 1999 Patricia Turner Ritchie |
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