Smith Cemetery

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Cemetery	Smith Cemetery
Location	Bennetts Run, Bergton Area, Rockingham County, Virginia. Located in the field behind the present Bennetts Run School house.
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. Shirley Cullers Miller noted the following; "There has never been a record of the burials in the Smith Cemetery. The graves (except for one) were marked with field and river rocks. During my research, I found names of people who are buried here. I am including the list for a record to be preserved. The Smith Cemetery is located in the field behind the present Bennetts Run School house. In the summer of 2000, Alonzo Earl 'Bill" Yankey and George Hottinger made white cement tombstones (no markings on them) and placed them at some of the grave sites. Bill also stated that he plans to build a fence around this Smith Cemetery. One monument was set in the Smith Cemetery in 1984. It marks the graves of more than fifty people." In 1967 J. Robert Swank noted-the space occupied would accommodate 70 to 90 graves.
Survey Date and Recorder	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
Turner	Noah	1855	17 Mar 1862		died of diphteria at age 7, child of Magdaline "Maude" Nesselrodt & Thomas Marion Turner Sr.
Smith	Mary Elizabeth (Shaver)	1811	after 1880		wife of Emanuel Smith, and child of Abraham Shaver I & Barbara Kepner Shaver
Smith	Susanna	1842	1848		died at age 6 years, child of Emanuel & Mary Shaver Smith
Smith	Zachariah	1846	1848		died at age 2 years, child of Emanuel & Mary Shaver Smith
Smith	Elizabeth	1851	1859		died at age 8 years, child of Emanuel & Mary Shaver Smith
Smith	Louisa	1847	1858		died at age 11 years, child of Emanuel & Mary Shaver Smith
Smith, II	Lorenzo Frederick	28 Oct 1838	1 Aug 1880		child of Emanuel & Mary Shaver Smith, and husband of Mary Catherine "Kettle" Dove
Smith	Noah	1830		Infant	child of Henrich (Henry) Adam & Elizabeth Conrad Smith
Smith	Sarah	1834	1855		child of Henrich (Henry) Adam & Elizabeth Conrad Smith
Smith	Emanuel	1810	1880		husband of Mary Elizabeth Shaver, and child of Lorenzo Frederick Smith I & Christina Agatha Sunifrank Smith
Nesselrodt	Magdaline "Maude"	1829	1880		child of Frederick Nesselrodt II & Lydia Yankey Nesselrodt
Smith	Hannah G.	7 Jan 1900	7 Jan 1900		child of Ashby & Naomi May Smith Recorded by J. Robert Swank in 1967 as Hannah G. Smith died 7 Jan 1900 about 6 months old, sister to Loy
Turner	William Washington	1858	1 Apr 1862		died of diphteria, child of Magdaline "Maude" Nesselrodt & Thomas Marion Turner Sr.
Smith	Susan Rebecca Jane (Turner)	14 May 1862			1st wife of Joseph Adam "Joe Hog" Smith, and child of Magdaline "Maude" Nesselrodt & Thomas Marion Turner Sr.
Smith	Cutlip Adam	1836	1859		died at age 23, child of George & Susannah "Susan" Hevener Smith
Smith	Eve				died in infancy, daughter of Solomon Perry & Mary Ann Ritchie Smith
Smith	Jacob				died in infancy, son of Solomon Perry & Mary Ann Ritchie Smith
May	Margaret "Peggy" (Smith)	21 Apr 1799	after 1850		2nd wife of Andrew James May, and child of Lorenzo Frederick Smith I & Christina Agatha Sunifrank Smith
May	Andrew James	about 1794	1830		husband of Margaret "Peggy" Smith, and child of George May I & Martha Magdaline Houghman May
Smith	Bessie	30 Aug 1895	21 Sep 1896		child of George & Martha Smith
Smith	Mahala (Whetzel)	2 Mar 1834	26 Sep 1888		1st wife of Jackson Smith, and child of George & Jemima Hevener Whetzel
Wasbor	Sasm	25 May 1841	16 Sept 1951		Recorded by J. Robert Swank in 1967.
Smith	Leonard F.	23 Oct 1837	1 Aug 1880		Recorded by J. Robert Swank in 1967.
Smith	G.	7 Mar 1807	11 Dec 1892		Recorded by J. Robert Swank in 1967.

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