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Posted: 9:03 AM - Aug 28, 2000
Dee Ann Burck
I would also like to know where that is. The map I have has listings of where cemeteries are located too. I'm not sure if this includes small farm plots or not.
Have you seen the page I have on other Churches and Cemeteries Relevant to the Robert Mackay Clan?
I have mentioned some of the places in the Frederick, Clarke, & Warren County areas that many of our McKay, Sowers & Kerfoot relatives were buried in addition to Bethel.
You can click here to go directly to it.
Some Other Churches and Cemeteries Relevant to the Robert Mackay Clan in the Shenandoah Valley
I forget the researcher's name she left a posting on Clarke Co. VA genforum. Stated that the house wherein Wm. Sowers had been lived removed and a new house built on the land.
No remains of a cemetery on the property.
Posted: 5:55 PM - Mar 08, 2012
Dee Ann Buck
Michael I did look for another place on your site to post messages about our Sowers family but wouldn't find another place.
Hope to find more information about our McKay, Sowers, Mitchell & Kerfoot in the future from another look at film dealing with Warren Co. VA & Frederick Co. VA through our local public library near in Fairfax. I can get free !! (as you) microfilm of original records delivered at Fairfax Public Library.
On State of VA reel #8 Clarke Co. VA Book "A" Circuit Court page 101-104. Found my gr-gr-gr-grandfather Wm. Sowers will, also contained on this same film his estate inventory and trustee reports for his daughters & family of his son Wm. B.C. Sowers.
The family tale I had heard from my grandmother Daisy Love (McKay) Shipp, wife of Walter Eugene Shipp, was that her mother Etta Double Sowers born on 15 September 1863, was born the day one of her grandparent had died.
Through graveyard records knew that it wasn't John W. Sowers or his wife Mary Emily Mitchell. Which left her other set of grandparents: Wm. Sowers & Catherine Jenkins. According to the Clarke Co. Historical Society the Federals burned down Wm. Sowers' home, where is widow lived at the time. So I concluded Catherine was out, which left only Wm. Sowers. Now the tale could be true except for the fact the date of his estate inventory was on 17 Feb 1863, before the birth of Etta. So I must state that the family tale is not correct.
Wm. died sometime after 3 Sep 1858 before 17 Feb 1863.
In his will he named the twelve children that I have listed in my Sowers book. The last daughter Matilda "Tillie" Sowers (named Mary Matilda in his will) was alive in 1858 but F.J. Kerfoot did not file a trustee report for her; so Hunter B. McKay must have been given the correct information about her dying young. Hunter wrote "Tillie died at the age of 16, typhoid fever, at the same time that her mother & father died of the same disease. From census information she should have been born in 1842, she & her father could have died shortly after the will was written. But her mother lived through the Civil War.
More important to me is the location of Wm. Sowers' farm. He allotted 200a to his wife, adjoined the lands of Col. Morgan & John Burchell and the farm road lead to Berryville Turnpike Road and a field containing a burying ground. I would love to be able to locate this grave yard. I alway felt that he was buried on his land.
Michael does a road Berryville Turnpike Road in 1858 still run the same way today ?
All for now.
#13630 filed in Clarke Co. VA Battletown, Berryville for Martha Ann Burchell female, white, widow, born 19 Apr 1827, age at the time of death 86 years, 2 months, house wife, born in Clarke Co. VA, father Wm. Sowers born in Frederick Co. VA, mother Catherine Jenkins MD, informant Mrs. J.E. Greiner of Baltimore, MD, date of death 19 Jun 1913, cause old age, place of burial Green Hill Cemetery of Clarke Co. VA, 22 Jun 1913"
One interesting piece of information her mother being born in MD. I do not think correct, but must be checked out.
Posted: 4:03 PM - Jul 05, 2012
Dee Ann Buck
State of VA #25899 filed Berryville, Clarke Co. VA death certificate for J. Albert Burchell male, white, single, age time of death 57 years, stock buyer, born in Clarke Co. VA, father John Foster Burchell born in Clarke Co. VA, mother Martha Sowers born in Clarke Co. VA, informate John T. Crow of Berryville, VA, date of death 26 Oct 1918 of "Arterie Solerosis", buried Green Hill Cemetery of VA on 29 Oct 1918"
He is on page 142 of my Sowers Book.
Posted: 11:38 AM - Feb 10, 2014
Dee Ann Buck
Michael I did look for another place on your site to post messages about our Sowers family but wouldn't find another place.
Hope to find more information about our McKay, Sowers, Mitchell & Kerfoot in the future from another look at film dealing with Warren Co. VA & Frederick Co. VA through our local public library near in Fairfax. I can get free !! (as you) microfilm of original records delivered at Fairfax Public Library.
On State of VA reel #8 Clarke Co. VA Book "A" Circuit Court page 101-104. Found my gr-gr-gr-grandfather Wm. Sowers will, also contained on this same film his estate inventory and trustee reports for his daughters & family of his son Wm. B.C. Sowers.
The family tale I had heard from my grandmother Daisy Love (McKay) Shipp, wife of Walter Eugene Shipp, was that her mother Etta Double Sowers born on 15 September 1863, was born the day one of her grandparent had died.
Through graveyard records knew that it wasn't John W. Sowers or his wife Mary Emily Mitchell. Which left her other set of grandparents: Wm. Sowers & Catherine Jenkins. According to the Clarke Co. Historical Society the Federals burned down Wm. Sowers' home, where is widow lived at the time. So I concluded Catherine was out, which left only Wm. Sowers. Now the tale could be true except for the fact the date of his estate inventory was on 17 Feb 1863, before the birth of Etta. So I must state that the family tale is not correct.
Wm. died sometime after 3 Sep 1858 before 17 Feb 1863.
In his will he named the twelve children that I have listed in my Sowers book. The last daughter Matilda "Tillie" Sowers (named Mary Matilda in his will) was alive in 1858 but F.J. Kerfoot did not file a trustee report for her; so Hunter B. McKay must have been given the correct information about her dying young. Hunter wrote "Tillie died at the age of 16, typhoid fever, at the same time that her mother & father died of the same disease. From census information she should have been born in 1842, she & her father could have died shortly after the will was written. But her mother lived through the Civil War.
More important to me is the location of Wm. Sowers' farm. He allotted 200a to his wife, adjoined the lands of Col. Morgan & John Burchell and the farm road lead to Berryville Turnpike Road and a field containing a burying ground. I would love to be able to locate this grave yard. I alway felt that he was buried on his land.
Michael does a road Berryville Turnpike Road in 1858 still run the same way today ?
All for now.
Found on Ancestry DNA site "Oldlyme29" DNA sample from another daughter Jane Jenkins from couple Wm. Jenkins & Elizabeth McKay.
This could be the break I have been looking for as far as finding the parentage of Elizabeth McKay wife of Wm. Jenkins.
I have other DNA samples which point the way to which Jenkins family I belong. Quakers from PA.