Cemetery | John Grattan Family Cemetery |
Location | Mt. Crawford area, Rockingham County, Virginia. From Harrisonburg, Virginia, take Route 11 south (Valley Pike). Cemetery is one mile south of Mt. Crawford. Known in Colonial days as Contentment. |
Notes | In 2011 no attempt was made to locate this cemetery. In the 1960s the D.A.R. wrote; This cemetery has been almost obliterated from neglect. These records were taken before cemetery was in such bad state. Dr. John W. Wayland notes and records from 22 Dec 1925 from his visit to cemetery along with Mr. Kaylor; The Grattan house (tall brick) stands about 1/3 of a mile east of the Valley Pike (Route 11), above the river. The old graveyard is in a field about halfway between the house and the Pike on the southwest side of the lane leading in from the Pike. The wall around the graveyard is falling. The old stage road, Mr. Kaylor says, used to pass farther east, near the house. Notes in the Remarks Column are from John W. Wayland records. |
Survey Date and Recorder | 1960s D.A.R. |
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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Grattan | Robert | 27 Dec 1769 | 23 Feb 1841 | Large flat slab | |||
Gilmer | Lucy | 30 Nov or Dec 1774 | __ Jan 1850 | d/Peachy Ridgway Gilmer | Large flat slab; Sister of Elizabeth Grattan | ||
Grattan, Jr. | Robert | 31 Mar 1800 | 6 Aug 1855 | s/Robert Grattan & Elizabeth Gilmer Grattan | Large flat slab; He married Martha D. Minor 9 August 1832-died at home-survived by wife and 8 children who erected this frail monument to His Many Virtues: The memory of which will live in their hearts after this stone crumbles into dust. | ||
Grattan | Martha D. | 30 Nov 1810 | 17 Jun 1869 | w/Robert Jr. | |||
Grattan | Mary Peachy | 23 Mar 1809 | 25 Jan 1828 | Large flat slab | |||
Grattan | Robert R. | 28 Jan 1841 | 27 Dec 1862 |