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 |
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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Smith | Mary Elizabeth (Shaver) | 1811 | after 1880 | wife of Emanuel Smith, and child of Abraham Shaver I & Barbara Kepner Shaver | |||
Smith | Hannah G. | 7 Jan 1900 | 7 Jan 1900 | child of Ashby & Naomi May Smith | |||
Smith | Bessie | 30 Aug 1895 | 21 Sep 1896 | child of George & Martha Smith | |||
May | Andrew James | about 1794 | 1830 | husband of Margaret "Peggy" Smith, and child of George May I & Martha Magdaline Houghman May | |||
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 | |||
Smith | Jacob | died in infancy, son of Solomon Perry & Mary Ann Ritchie Smith | |||||
Smith | Noah | 1830 | Infant | 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 | |||
Smith | Susanna | 1842 | 1848 | died at age 6 years, child of Emanuel & Mary Shaver Smith | |||
Smith | Eve | died in infancy, daughter of Solomon Perry & Mary Ann Ritchie 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 | Cutlip Adam | 1836 | 1859 | died at age 23, child of George & Susannah "Susan" Hevener Smith | |||
Smith | Sarah | 1834 | 1855 | child of Henrich (Henry) Adam & Elizabeth Conrad Smith | |||
Smith | Mahala (Whetzel) | 2 Mar 1834 | 26 Sep 1888 | 1st wife of Jackson Smith, and child of George & Jemima Hevener Whetzel | |||
Nesselrodt | Magdaline "Maude" | 1829 | 1880 | child of Frederick Nesselrodt II & Lydia Yankey Nesselrodt | |||
Turner | Noah | 1855 | 17 Mar 1862 | died of diphteria at age 7, child of Magdaline "Maude" Nesselrodt & Thomas Marion Turner Sr. | |||
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 | Zachariah | 1846 | 1848 | died at age 2 years, child of Emanuel & Mary Shaver Smith |