Rockingham County Virginia Tombstones by Cemetery

Cemetery	Dovel-Stephens Family Cemetery
Location	Melrose area, Rockingham County, Virginia. Cemetery was located off of Route 11 north, on the west side, less than one mile south of Melrose Church of the Brethren.
Notes	Notes taken from the D.A.R. recording: This cemetery was moved in 1940 from "Stonewall Cottage", the Woolf-Dovel-Stevens home from 1783 to 1938, to the Woodbine Cemetery in Harrisonburg, Virginia. On the removal to Woodbine, the original marble tombstones were replaced by new granite monuments. Laura Belle Stephens and Sallie Georgiana Stephens, the two last remaining members of the family, had been interred in Woodbine Cemetery, prior to the removal from the family cemetery on Route 11.
Survey Date and Recorder	1960s DAR

Surnames are sorted by section / plot / row / grave - only sections and rows are shown

Surname	Given Name & MI	Birth Date	Death Date	Headstone Notes	Remarks
Dovel	James	2 Feb 1803	18 May 1849	s/Daniel & C. Dovel	Moved to Woobine Cemetery in 1940
Stevens	Mary Dovel		31 Aug 1902	Aged 72y 3m 4d; w/Richard A. Stevens	Moved to Woobine Cemetery in 1940
Dovel	Barbara Yount	1 Nov 1797	28 Jul 1863	Aged 65y 10m 29d; Our Mother	Moved to Woobine Cemetery in 1940
Dovel	Joseph M.	23 Dec 1840	13 Sep 1863	Aged 23y 9m 10d; Brother	Moved to Woobine Cemetery in 1940
Stephens	Richard A.	6 Jan 1831	5 Nov 1890	Aged 59y 9m 29d	Moved to Woobine Cemetery in 1940
Stephens	Martha J.		10 Jul 1899	Aged 43y 4m 2d	Moved to Woobine Cemetery in 1940
Stephens	Barbara V.	25 Jul 1854	12 Dec 1864		Moved to Woobine Cemetery in 1940
Stephens	Frances Rebecca	29 Jun 1859	21 Jan 1862		Moved to Woobine Cemetery in 1940
Stephens	Henrietta Vine	17 Nov 1860	29 Dec 1861		Moved to Woobine Cemetery in 1940
Stephens	Laura Belle	1862	27 Jan 1934		Buried at Woodbine & never in the family cemetery
Stephens	Sallie Georgiana	1870	19 May 1938		Buried at Woodbine & never in the family cemetery