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 2024 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 2024 | |||||
Unknown | Fieldstone-no markings | ||||||
Unknown | Illegible headstone-in vines | ||||||
Bryant | Lester Lee | 16 Mar 2024 | 15 Mar 2024 | Virginia Cpl U.S. Army WWI | |||
Bryant | Cecilia Frye | 12 Nov 2024 | 9 Mar 2024 | ||||
Williams | Everett | 21 Feb 2025 | 29 Jul 2024 | Father | |||
Williams | Delia | 31 Mar 2024 | 12 May 2024 | Mother | w/Everett | ||
Williams | Curry R. | 11 Nov 2024 | 30 May 2024 | Pvt U.S. Army WWII | |||
Williams | Beulah M. | 26 Apr 2024 | 27 Feb 2025 | ||||
Williams | Clyde | 28 Nov 2024 | 19 Feb 2025 | PFC U.S. Army WWII | |||
Anderson | Frances Mary | 19 Feb 2025 | 13 Aug 2024 | ||||
Williams | John E. | 1922 | 1998 | Kyger Trobaugh funeral home marker only | |||
Williams | Thomas E. | 4 Jul 2024 | 18 Mar 2024 | Dad; Our children-Becky, Ricky, Paul; Our great-grandchildren-Chris, Likishia | |||
Williams | Edith M. | 14 Sep 2024 | 3 May 2024 | 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 |