Tombstone Inscriptions of Orange County Virginia Genealogy Book

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Tombstone Inscriptions of Orange County, Virginia
Margaret C. Klein
Volume totaling 132 pages in new condition.  Description per the publisher.
Carved out of Spotsylvania County in 1734, Orange County,  Virginia was one of those peculiar "feeder" counties, a conduit for migration to  points south and west, yet it also managed to attract a large number of  permanent settlers. There is, however, comparatively little published  genealogical material available on Orange County, though a good deal of  unrecorded information exists, especially in cemeteries. This simple discovery  led Dr. Klein to make a record of gravestone inscriptions and unmarked but known  burials throughout the county. The work in hand records tombstone inscriptions  in 150 cemeteries, thirty-three church cemeteries, and some half-dozen  proprietary cemeteries, resulting in the enumeration of perhaps as many as three  thousand Orange County inhabitants, giving dates of birth and death and  frequently specifying family relationships. To keep the data within practical  limits, the author recorded the inscriptions of persons who either died before  1900 or were born before 1850, including, where appropriate, data on wives,  husbands, and children who did not fit the criteria. In family cemeteries, of  course, every headstone was transcribed.
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