Cemetery

 Messick Family Cemetery

Location

West of Timberville, Rockingham County, Virginia. From downtown Harrisonburg, take Route 42 North. In Broadway, Route 42 turns right and then left. (Names for Route 42 are Harpine Highway, E. Lee St., Timber Way, S. Main St., & N. Main St.) Travel 15.7 miles and turn left onto Route 881 (Orchard Drive). Go 2.3 miles and turn right onto Route 614 (Mechanicsville Road). Go 1.0 mile & you will see a sign "Sonny Side Poultry" on the right side of the road. Turn into drive and cemetery is on the left side.
 

Notes

Cemetery is not well maintained & enclosed by a wire fence. In 1967 J. Robert Swank noted "Cemetery is located on the G. W. Cullers farm on the east side of 614,NW of Road 881 & Byrd Storage. There are, perhaps, ten more graves, unmarked. Property formerly Hingardner & Orbaugh place." In 2002 owned by Sonny Side. Comments in the remarks were recorded by Mr. Swank.

Survey Date and Recorder

21 March 2002
Bennie Getz & Walter Mason

Photos

Lois Emswiler

Row

Surname

Given Name & MI

Birth Date

Death Date

Headstone Notes

Remarks

Images

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Messick

William Harvey

15 Sep 1880

12 Oct 1906

Aged 26y 27d; s/Alfred & Elizabeth

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Messick

John Henry

30 Apr 1877

14 Nov 1881

Aged 4y 7m 14d; s/Alfred & Elizabeth

Image

001

Messick

James N.

28 Aug 1817

18 Jul 1887

2/w of James N. buried at Orkney Springs

Image

001

Messick

Elizabeth

17 Jan 1823

6 Feb 1905

1/w of James N.

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Messick

Nathaniel

abt 1850

abt 1924

No visible marker-record by Swank in 1967; aged 74yr; father of Stanley, Carl & others)

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Messick

Herman V.

18 Aug 1893 

23 Dec 1968

No visible marker; data from Brown funeral home memorial card, burial 27 Dec 1968, interment at Old Messick Cemetery, Rockingham County, VA; son of Nathaniel & Margaret Elizabeth (Basye) Messick-per Steve Pence 22 Apr 2003