Harrisonburg Rockingham Historical Society
Rockingham County Tombstones by Cemetery
Cemetery |
Harrison & Effinger Family Cemetery |
Location |
Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Virginia. It was
located on Federal Street in Harrisonburg and the graves moved to Woodbine Cemetery. |
Notes |
Sixteen graves/names were listed in Maria G. Carr's
book "My Recollections of Rocktown now Known as Harrisonburg" which she wrote in
1892 and was reprinted in 1984. From the book "Landmarks and Personage of Old
Harrisonburg" by Tommy Bassford in 1944, he mentions "William C. and Lelia
Harrison along with Jacob and Hester Effinger and a number of others. Through a Court
Order all were exhumed and reinterred in Woodbine by John Mitchell and Piner Landis."
The five persons shown in this cemetery listing were not found in Woodbine Cemetery. The
rest of the names were found in Woodbine in 2003 and the 15 listed below are shown in that
cemetery: Maria Graham Koontz, John Graham, Elizabeth F. Graham, Mary Fanella Effinger,
Margaret Boyd (Graham) Morris, Francis Catherine Effinger, Peter Effinger, Harriet
Effinger, Jacob Effinger, Hester Effinger, Samuel Cootes, Emily Cootes, Maria Louisa
Cootes, Maria Francis Cootes, and William (Willie) Cootes. |
| Survey Date and Recorder | 1892 & 1944 - typed up 20 July 2003 |
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 |
| Graham | John, Jr. | Didn't find in Woodbine Cemetery | |||
| Johnson or Johnston | 1832 | nee Boyd; Maria Graham Koontz Carr's Grandmother-didn't find in Woodbine Cemetery | |||
| Effinger | Child | 1820 | ch/Peter & Harriet | Didn't find in Woodbine Cemetery | |
| Harrison | William C. | 1782 | Didn't find in Woodbine Cemetery | ||
| Harrison | Lelia | 1784 | Didn't find in Woodbine Cemetery |
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