Cemetery | St. Hebron Baptist Church Cemetery (*) |
Location | Greenwood area, Rockingham County, Virginia. From Courthouse in Harrisonburg, Virginia, take Route 33 East. Go 12.4 miles and turn left onto Route 602 (East Point Road). Go 4.8 miles and turn left into dirt driveway to the Earby G. Good farm, just before Route 940 (Greenwood Road). Need permission to visit cemetery. |
Notes | Cemetery is in fair condition. It is located on Earby G. Good farm. Numerous unmarked graves and fieldstones. St. Hebron Baptist Church is located on the corner of Rt. 602 (East Point Road) and Rt. 940 (Greenwood Road). The church is about 140 years old and is an active congregation. On December 11, 1936, C. C. Morris of Shenandoah, Virginia, recorded the following on this cemetery as given to him by F. E. Brown and Earl Wayre. "This is an old colored cemetery that goes back to the slavery times. There are quite a few old slaves buried here, but no inscriptions on stones. Some of the old slaves who were buried here before 1860 were Harvey Wayre and his wife, Evelyn Wayre; John Brown and wife, Sarah Brown; and Caroline Beck; also the Rev. John Wood, the colored missionary Baptist preacher." |
Survey Date and Recorder | 15 Aug 2004 Bob & Lois Emswiler |
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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Beck | Caroline | No visible marker-recorded by WPA 1936 burial pre-1860 | |||||
Brown | Sarah | No visible marker-recorded by WPA 1936 burial pre-1860 | |||||
Brown | John | No visible marker-recorded by WPA 1936 burial pre-1860 | |||||
Wayre | Evelyn | No visible marker-recorded by WPA 1936 burial pre-1860 | |||||
Wayre | Harvey | No visible marker-recorded by WPA 1936 burial pre-1860 | |||||
Wood | John, Rev. | No visible marker-recorded by WPA 1936 burial pre-1860-was missionary Baptist preacher | |||||
Jackson | Margaret L. | 1829 | 1987 | Erected by Bibleway Cogic | |||
Jackson | William | 1928 | 1985 | ||||
Tuckson | Raymond H. | 1907 | 1976 | In gratitude to God for Raymond | |||
Tuckson | Delia D. | 25 Apr 1960 | |||||
Unknown | Fieldstone-no markings | ||||||
Unknown | Illegible headstone-in vines | ||||||
Bryant | Lester Lee | 16 Mar 1895 | 15 Mar 1972 | Virginia Cpl U.S. Army WWI | |||
Bryant | Cecilia Frye | 12 Nov 1905 | 9 Mar 1981 | ||||
Williams | Everett | 21 Feb 1885 | 29 Jul 1963 | Father | |||
Williams | Delia | 31 Mar 1893 | 12 May 1967 | Mother | w/Everett | ||
Williams | Curry R. | 11 Nov 1919 | 30 May 1972 | Pvt U.S. Army WWII | |||
Williams | Beulah M. | 26 Apr 1907 | 27 Feb 1986 | ||||
Williams | Clyde | 28 Nov 1916 | 19 Feb 1991 | PFC U.S. Army WWII | |||
Anderson | Frances Mary | 19 Feb 1920 | 13 Aug 1993 | ||||
Williams | John E. | 1922 | 1998 | Kyger Trobaugh funeral home marker only | |||
Williams | Thomas E. | 4 Jul 1912 | 18 Mar 1999 | Dad; Our children-Becky, Ricky, Paul; Our great-grandchildren-Chris, Likishia | |||
Williams | Edith M. | 14 Sep 1912 | 3 May 2001 | Mom; 6 Grandchildren, 6 great-grandchildren; 6 foster childern; 15 fosther grandchildren | |||
Craig | Ella May | 1909 | 2001 | On backside of Williams headstone | |||
Brown | Fred E. | 1902 | 1964 | ||||
Brown | Maggie F. | 1907 | 1999 | Lindsey funeral home marker reads b.1906, d.1999 | |||
Unknown | 1986 | Illegible Lindsey funeral home marker only | |||||
Becks | Clifford | 1912 | 1987 | Lindsey funeral home marker only | |||
Becks | Conrad "Dude" | 1923 | 1996 | Kyger Trobaugh funeral home marker only | |||
Unknown | Illegible Funeral home marker |