Cemetery | Lawson May Cemetery |
Location | Bennetts Run, Bergton Area, Rockingham County, Virginia. |
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 written record of the burials in the Lawson May Cemetery. During my research I have made a list of the people that I have found to be buried in this cemetery. I am including the list for a record to be preserved." |
Survey Date and Recorder | 2002 Shirley Cullers Miller |
Surnames are sorted by section / plot / row / grave - only sections and rows are shown
Section | Row | Surname | Given Name & MI | Birth Date | Death Date | Headstone Notes | Remarks |
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May | David F. | 30 Aug 1864 | child of Silas & Mary Catherine Souder May | ||||
May | Mary Catherine (Souder) | Recorded by J. Robert Swank in 1967; wife of Silas May | |||||
May | Silas | Recorded by J. Robert Swank in 1967 | |||||
May | Mary Shaver | 1862 | wife of David F. May, and child of Abraham Shaver II & Dorothy "Dolly" Turner Shaver | ||||
May | Tallie | 7 Feb 1940 | 13 Feb 1940 | child of Lawson Boyd May & Iscie Sharon Smith May | |||
May | Winnie Virginia | 9 Jun 1924 | 28 Feb 1925 | child of Lawson Boyd May & Iscie Sharon Smith | |||
May | Lawson Boyd | 22 Feb 1893 | 17 May 1973 | child of Priscella May, and husband of Iscie Sharon Smith | |||
May | Priscella | 11 Mar 1866 | 10 Jan 1957 | child of Silas & Mary Catherine Souder May | |||
May | Aaron | 13 Jun 1870 | 13 Jun 1872 | child of Silas & Mary Catherine Souder May | |||
May | Andrew | 12 May 1875 | 21 Jun 1876 | child of Silas & Mary Catherine Souder May | |||
May | Christian C. | 22 Dec 1876 | 7 Jan 1877 | child of Silas & Mary Catherine Souder May |