Cemetery | Solomon Ritchie Family Cemetery |
Location | Fulks Run, Rockingham County, Virginia. From Fulks Run Grocery, continue west on Highway 259 for 1 mile. Turn left at the Valley Land store onto Highway 818 (Little Dry River Road). After crossing the bridge, turn at the first left onto Highway 817. The Ritchie Cemetery is unmarked, no fence, no rocks. It was originally on the Solomon Ritchie place, now owned by Clay Hinkle. As you face the Clay Hinkle home, cemetery is to the left on the corner of their front yard. |
Notes | Notes in "Remarks" column were taken from Patricia Turner Ritchie's book in 1999, "Fulks Run Cemeteries". In 1967 J. Robert Swank noted "There are probably 30 to 50 graves here." More information on the Ritchie family can be found in book "Descendants of Isaac Ritchie of Virginia" by Vergie Lantz, in 1983. |
Survey Date and Recorder | 1. 1967 2. 1999 1. J. Robert Swank 2. Patricia Turner Ritchie |
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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001 | Baker | Mrs. | Mother of Philip Baker | ||||
001 | Ritchie | Mrs. | Mother of Solomon Ritchie | ||||
001 | Ritchie | Solomon | 1780 | s/Isaac & Maria Catharena Wolfe Ritchie; buried here per Pat Ritchie's book | |||
001 | Ritchie | Elizabeth "Betsy" Baker | 1795 | 1869 | w/Solomon Ritchie; d/"Hessian John" & Elizabeth Turner Baker; buried here per Pat Ritchie's book | ||
001 | Ritchie | Elizabeth | 1924 | Died young | d/Solomon & Elizabeth Baker Ritchie; buried here per Pat Ritchie's book |