Harrisonburg Rockingham Historical Society
Rockingham County Tombstones by Cemetery
Cemetery |
Silas Dove Cemetery |
Location |
Bergton Area, Rockingham County, Virginia. Located
at the top of the Shenandoah Mountain on Overly Hollow Road (Route 823). On the farm of
the late Silas Sylvester Dove, later the Harvey Dove farm. |
Notes |
Cemetery records compiled by Shirley Cullers Miller
using headstones, field/river rocks, papers of Warren Souder and Lewis Yankey, J. Robert
Swank’s 1967 records, and through interviews with area residents. This is a new
cemetery and not previously recorded.
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| Survey Date and Recorder | 22 Nov 2002 Shirley Cullers Miller |
Cemetery Index
Surnames are sorted by section /
plot / row / grave - only rows are shown
| Surname | Given Name & MI | Birth Date | Death Date | Headstone Notes | Remarks |
| Combs | James Franklin | 2 Aug 1907 | 10 Jul 1970 | child of Isaac Levi Combs & Phoebe Catherine Cullers, and husband of (1) Dessie Gertrude Dove and (2) Goldie Dove | |
| Dove | Mary Susan (Crider) | Feb 1869 | 1900 - 1910 | died between 1900 and 1910, child of Noah Crider & Louise Marie Whetzel Crider, and wife of Silas Sylvester Dove | |
| Dove | Charles William | 15 Jan 1874 | 11 Jan 1948 | child of Siram Dove & Sarah "Jane" Dove Dove, and husband of Mary Catherine Whetzel | |
| Dove | Mary Catherine (Whetzel) | 25 Jul 1874 | Apr 1942 | child of Morgan Whetzel & Sarah Jane Stultz, and wife of Charles William Dove | |
| Dove | William L. | 15 Dec 1906 | 7 Aug 1908 | child of Charles William Dove & Mary Catherine Whetzel Dove | |
| Dove | Oscar Lee | 10 Feb 1892 | 27 Oct 1918 | child of Charles William Dove & Mary Catherine Whetzel Dove | |
| Dove | Eliza Catherine (Turner) | 13 Aug 1890 | 15 Jan 1933 | child of William A. Turner & Ida Frances Dove, and wife of (1) Oscar Lee Dove and (2) Jacob Grover Dove | |
| Dove | Beebie May | 28 Sep 1913 | 28 Jun 1914 | child of Oscar Lee Dove & Eliza Catherine Turner | |
| Dove | Jessie William | 4 Jul 1893 | 12 Apr 1973 | child of Silas Sylvester Dove & Mary Susan Crider | |
| Dove | Blanche Catherine (May) | 26 May 1899 | 29 Apr 1986 | child of William "Riley" May & Anna Belle Mongold, and wife of Jesse William Dove | |
| Dove | Silas Sylvester | 15 Sep 1859 | 1940 | child of Jonas Jonah Dove & Frances Smith, and husband of Mary Susan Crider | |
| Dove | Evelyn Dove | 2 Sep 1929 | 22 Apr 1951 | child of Jesse William Dove & Blanche Catherine May | |
| Dove | Junior Elwood | died at age 4 months, child of Harvey Webster & Bessie Lee Siever Dove | |||
| Combs | Dessie Gertrude (Dove) | 23 Dec 1914 | 4 Jun 1950 | child of Oscar Lee Dove & Eliza Catherine Turner, and 1st wife of James Franklin Combs | |
| Combs | Carl Lee | 8 Jul 1944 | 20 Feb 2002 | child of James Franklin Combs & Dessie Gertrude Dove | |
| Ritchie | Willard Lee | 18 Apr 1919 | 8 Apr 1985 | child of Jacob "Frank" Ritchie & Ada Belle Dove, and husband of Norma Esther Dove | |
| Ritchie | Norma Esther (Dove) | 11 Dec 1924 | child of Jesse William Dove & Blanche Catherine May, and wife of Willard Lee Ritchie | ||
| Dove | William Ray | 28 Oct 1940 | died 3 weeks old, child of Jason Marvin Dove & Lucy Virginia Whetzel | ||
| Dove | Barbara Ellen | 12 May 1950 | 12 May 1950 | Stillborn | child of Jason Marvin Dove & Lucy Virginia Dove |
| Dove | Infant Son | son of Benjamin Albert Dove & Ada Ethel Dove Dove | |||
| Dove | Infant Son | son of Benjamin Albert Dove & Ada Ethel Dove Dove | |||
| Dove | Infant Daughter | daughter of Benjamin Albert Dove & Ada Ethel Dove Dove | |||
| Dove | Lukey Dorman | 13 Nov 1922 | 4 Mar 1924 | child of Jesse William Dove & Blanche Catherine May |
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