History of the Restoration Movement


Grave Locations Of Restoration Movement Leaders In Virginia

Below Is An Incomplete List Of Leaders In The Restoration Movement Now Deceased Whose Remains Have Been Located And Kept On Record For Future Restoration Study. Photos And The Locations Are Sketchy. As Further Investigation Comes To Light, Updates Of Photos And Directions To Locations Will Be Made. Some Of The Names Listed Below Represent A "Wish-List" Of Graves I Hope To Visit Someday. If You Would Care To Assist In Producing Pages For Any Listed Below, Contact Me And Ask How You Can Help! For A Complete Listing Of Pages That Have Been Produced See The Master Index

Sorted By Name

Abell, George W. (12.11.1818-12.27.1874) Snowville, Pulaski County, Snowville Cemetery (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.131)
Abbott, Byrdine Akers (01.26.1866-06.24.1936) Roanoke, Roanoke City, Fair View Cemetery, GPS: 37.290798,-79.989607 (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.116)
Ainslie, Peter - Virginia Preacher who drowned in the Pamunky River on his way to a preaching appointment.
Anderson, Albert - Virginia preacher, brother of H.T. Anderson.
Allemong, Casper (d. 01.11.1872) Whitacre, Frederick County, Heironimus Family Cemetery, 39.33081,-78.32739 (Find-A-Grave) -bio in Memoirs of Deceased Ministers, E.W. Humphreys, c.1880, p.17
Austin, Daniel Myles (01.27.1873-10.16.1931) Victoria, Lunenburg County, Lakeview Cemetery, GPS: 36.9925,-78.2158 (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.146)

Bagby, James M. (03.26.1800-05.14.1856) Louisa County, Turner's Mill Cemetery, (Find-A-Grave)
Barnett, William (06.08.1842-12.02.1930) Hayter, Washington County, Barnett Cemetery, GPS: 36.83833,-81.93626, (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches Of Our Mountain Preachers, p.78)
Barrett, Burwell (04.03.1769-09.05.1836) Hampton (bio in Memoirs of Deceased Ministers, E.W. Humphreys, c.1880, p.51)
Barrett, Mills (12.25.1788-04.02.1865) Isle of Wight County, (bio in Memoirs of Deceased Ministers, E.W. Humphreys, c.1880, p.51)
Book, William Henry - (07.04.1863-1946) Roanoke, Roanoke County, Fair View Cemetery, GPS: 37.290799,-79.989576, (Find-A-Grave)
Buck, Cephas Shelburne (11.02.1857-08.12.1924), Brumley Gap, Washington County, Buck Cemetery, GPS: 36.804408,-82.019698 (Find-A-Grave) (Son of David M. Buck and son-in-law of Samuel Shelburne).
Buck, David Mason (05.22.1823-01.10.1863) Washington County, Davis Cemetery/Mongle Cemetery, GPS: 36.78195,-82.05259, (Find-A-Grave)
Bullard, Dr. Chester (03.12.1809-02.27.1893) Snowville, Pulaski County, Chester's Hill (Snowville Cemetery) (Find-A-Grave)
Bullard, Frank Fontaine (01.25.1857-05.04.1909) Lynchburg, Lynchburg County, Spring Hill Cemetery, GPS: 37.3958,-79.1636 (Find-A-Grave)

Calfee, Henry (10.26.1828-06.26.1902) Woodland, Carroll County, Calfee Cemetery, GPS: 36.689171,-80.790872, (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.226)
Carter, Allen Jackson (09.17.1842-05.18.1928) Scott County, McKinney-Carter Family Cemetery, GPS: GPS: 36.7014,-82.8217, (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.237)
Coleman, Reuben Lindsay (05.13.1807-04.21.1880) Scottsville, Albemarle County, Scottsville Cemetery, GPS: 37.8119,-78.4944, (Find-A-Grave) Edited the Christian Intelligencer, first in Richmond, then in Charlottesville.
Cooley, William Rufus (07.13.1856-05.03.1938) Carroll County, Coal Creek Memorial Cemetery, GPS: 36.62739,-80.87637, (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.144)
Culter, L.A. (????-????)

Ditzler, Jacob (01.13.1831-03.29.1918) (Methodist) Bowling Green, Caroline County, Lakewood Cemetery (Find-A-Grave) Debated David Lipscomb in 1871; J.M. Pickens in 1873; Joe S. Warlick in 1905. Also, T.W. Brents, L.B. Wilkes, & G.S. Sweaney.
Duncan, Landon (03.26.1786-09.22.1867) Narrows, Giles County, Hare Cemetery, GPS: 37.3394,-80.8139 (Find-A-Grave)
DuVal, Dr. John

Goss, James W., (12.29.1812-11.26.1870) Stony Point, Albemarle County, Goss Family Cemetery, GPS: 38.12552,-78.33728 (Find-A-Grave)

Hamaker, John David (01.01.1847-10.10.1931) Strasburg, Shenandoah County, Riverview Cemetery, GPS: 38.9842,-78.3614 (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Pioneers, West, p.73)
Hansbrough, Elijah (06.16.1824-06.30.1896) Louisa County buried in a family cemetery on private property. (Find-A-Grave)
Harman, John Newton (06.10.1854-09.21.1934) Tazewell, Tazewell County, Maplewood Cemetery, GPS: 37.12803,-81.52104 (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches Of Our Mountain Preachers, p.95)
Henley, Thomas M. - Virginia preacher, regular respondant in the Millennial Harbinger.
Higgason, Uriah - Virginia preacher who died while going west.
Hughart, Dr. William H.
Huffman, William (1825-03.1891) Craig County, Sinking Creek area. (Sketches of our Mountain Preachers, p.70)

Larrowe, Heath (12.13.1852-06.30.1901) Woodlawn, Carroll County, Calfee Cemetery, GPS: 36.689171,-80.790872, (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.251)
Lee, Elijah Calvin (05.10.1810-11.02.1883) Abbott, Craig County, Lee Damewood Cemetery GPS: 37.4394,-80.1294, (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.228)
Lee, Jonathan Calvin (07.04.1835-12.23.1910) Abbott, Craig County, Lee Damewood Cemetery GPS: 37.4394,-80.1294, (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.228)
Lucas, Chapman S. (05.05.1849-06.20.1896) Maybrook, Giles County, Lucas Cemetery, GPS: 37.301582,-80.561881, (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.177)

Maddox, Charles (11.21.1859-07.27.1927) Wytheville, Wythe County, East End Cemetery, GPS: 36.9556,-81.0764, (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.151)
Meyer, Jack, Sr. (06.03.1902-07.15.1963) West Falls Church, Fairfax County, National Memorial Park, Plot# G-222-1, GPS: 38.8786011,-77.2031021 (Find-A-Grave)
Mitchell, Rutherford Benton (11.0-9.1876-08.29.1938) Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Cedarwood Cemetery, GPS: 38.82105,-78.57132 (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.259)
Montgomery, Charles William (07.07.1853-10.27.1931) Boones Mill, Franklin County, Montgomery Cemetery, GPS:37.07312,-79.96556, (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.154)
Motley, William H. "Billy" (08.07.1823-11.14.1913) Pittsylvania County ???, (Sketches Of Our Mountain Preachers, p.103)
Motley, Edwin L. (09.15.1880-05.26.1905) Chatham, Pittsylvania County, Chatham Burial Park, GPS: 36.819,-79.399, (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches Of Our Mountain Preachers, p.104)
Motley, Ernest Ballard (09.14.1880-12.02.1953) Chatham, Pittsylvania County, Chatham Burial Park, GPS: 36.819,-79.399, (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches Of Our Mountain Preachers, p.104)

Osborne, Joseph Kennedy (04.05.1860-01.31.1937) Lee County, Cedar Hill Morelocks Memorial Cemetery, GPS: 36.665361,-83.252477, (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.234)

Powell, E.L. (????-????)

Ramsey, Armistead Fuller (01.10.1856-05.05.1937) Chalk Level, Pittsylvania County, Ramsey Cemetery, (on Chalk Level Rd. near Hwy 40) (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.264)

Scott, David Mitchell (12.02.1886-12.24.1933) Tazewell County, Mullin Cemetery, GPS: 37.2617,-81.2978 (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.160)
Shelburne, James (11.29.1738-03.06.1820) Lunenburg, Lunenburg County (Baptist minister, and father of Silas Shelburne)
Shelburne, James (12.4.1819-04.08.1890) Pennington Gap, Lee County, Shelburne Cemetery, GPS: 36.70437,-82.97525, (Find-A-Grave)
Shelburne, Lucius Clarke (03.20.184808.09.1926) Pennington Gap, Lee County, Shelburne Cemetery, GPS: 36.70437,-82.97525, (Find-A-Grave)
Shelburne, Silas (06.04.1790-09.07.1871) Hanover, Hanover County, Virginia
Shelburne, Silas Ellison (04.30.1852-03.15.1920) Pennington Gap, Lee County, Shelburne Cemetery, GPS: 36.70437,-82.97525(Find-A-Grave)
Shelor, Thomas Goodson (12.17.1813-04.01.1872) Graysontown, Montgomery County, Graysontown United Methodist Church Cemetery; GPS: 37.037174,-80.560921, (Find-A-Grave) (brother-in-law of Chester Bullard)
Shinall, William Franklin (03.03.1864-11.08.1923) Blueridge, Botetourt County, Blue Ridge Church of The Brethren Cemetery, GPS: 37.3841,-79.79505 (Find-A-Grave)
Showalter, Edward Thomas (1872-1968) Christiansburg Cemetery Sect. G Square 15, D1 (Find-A-Grave) *lp
Showalter, Josiah Thomas (07.24.1839-09.22.1915) Snowville, Pulaski County, Showalter Cemetery GPS:37.02216,-80.59187 (Find-A-Grave) *lp (Father of G.H.P. Showalter)
Snow, Asiel (1797-1884) Snowville, Pulaski County, Snowville Cemetery (Find-A-Grave)
Spencer, John A. (1855-1919) Christiansburg, Montgomery County, Sunset Cemetery, GPS: 37.1239,-80.4042, (Find-A-Grave) (Bio, Indiana Pulpit, p.162; Sketches Of Our Mountain Preachers, p.93)
St. Clair, Virgil M. (09.10.1841-11.09.1898) Blue Ridge, Botetourt County, Old Glade Creek Cemetery, GPS: 37.35989,-79.81828, (Find-A-Grave)
Stocks, Guilford Bonds (06.09.1913-04.21.1967) West Falls Church, Fairfax County, National Memorial Park, GPS: 38.87860,-77.20310 (Find-A-Grave)

Walthall, Alexander Branch (08.28.1797-05.30.1892) Ballsville, Powhatan County, Mount Moriah Church Cemetery, GPS: 37.50076,-78.06351, (Find-A-Grave)
Wingo, James H. (1847-1894) Maybrook, Giles County, Lucas Cemetery, GPS: 37.3014,-80.56198, (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.185)
Worrell, Ernest Randolph (05.18.1914-02.1985) Galax, Galax County, Felts Memorial Cemetery, GPS:36.68043,-80.90888, (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.253) Grandson of Heath Larrowe.

Sorted By City

Abbott, Craig County
Lee Damewood Cemetery GPS: 37.4394,-80.1294,
Elijah Calvin Lee (05.10.1810-11.02.1883) (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.228)
Jonathan Calvin Lee (07.04.1835-12.23.1910) (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.228)

Ballsville, Powhatan County
Mount Moriah Church Cemetery GPS: 37.50076,-78.06351,
Alexander Branch Walthall (08.28.1797-05.30.1892) (Find-A-Grave)

Blue Ridge, Botetourt County
Blue Ridge Church of The Brethren Cemetery, GPS: 37.3841,-79.79505
William Franklin Shinall (03.03.1864-11.08.1923) (Find-A-Grave)

Old Glade Creek Cemetery, GPS: 37.35989,-79.81828
Virgil M. St.Clair (09.10.1841-11.09.1898) (Find-A-Grave)

Boones Mill, Franklin County
Montgomery Cemetery GPS:37.07312,-79.96556,
Charles William Montgomery (07.07.1853-10.27.1931) (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.154)

Bowling Green, Caroline County
Jacob Ditzler (01.13.1831-03.29.1918) (Methodist) Lakewood Cemetery GPS: 38.0630989,-77.3463974 (Find-A-Grave) Debated J.M. Pickens in 1873; Joe S. Warlick in 1905.

Brumley Gap, Washington County
Cephas Shelburne Buck (11.02.1857-08.12.1924), Buck Cemetery, GPS: 36.804408,-82.019698, (Find-A-Grave) (Son-in-law of Samuel Shelburne).

Carroll County
Coal Creek Memorial Cemetery, GPS: 36.62739,-80.87637,
William Rufus Cooley (07.13.1856-05.03.1938) (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.144)

Chalk Level, Pittsylvania County
Ramsey Cemetery
Armistead Fuller Ramsey (01.10.1856-05.05.1937) (on Chalk Level Rd. near Hwy 40) GPS: 36.9252000,-79.2738300 (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.264)

Chatham, Pittsylvania County
Chatham Burial Park, GPS: 36.819,-79.399
Edwin L. Motley (09.15.1880-05.26.1905) (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches Of Our Mountain Preachers, p.104)
Ernest Ballard Motley (09.14.1880-12.02.1953) (Sketches Of Our Mountain Preachers, p.104)

Christiansburg
Showalter, Edward Thomas (1872-1968) Christiansburg Cemetery Sect. G Square 15, D1, GPS: 37.1239014,-80.4041977, (Find-A-Grave) *lp

John A. Spencer (1855-1919) Christiansburg, Montgomery County, Sunset Cemetery, GPS: 37.1239,-80.4042, (Find-A-Grave) (Bio, Indiana Pulpit, p.162; Sketches Of Our Mountain Preachers, p.93)

Craig County
William Huffman (1825-03.1891) Sinking Creek area. (Sketches of our Mountain Preachers, p.70)

Edinburg, Shenandoah County
Cedarwood Cemetery, GPS: 38.82105,-78.57132
Rutherford Benton Mitchell (11.0-9.1876-08.29.1938) (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.259)

Galax, Galax County
Felts Memorial Cemetery, GPS:36.68043,-80.90888,
Ernest Randolph Worrell (05.18.1914-02.1985) (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.253) Grandson of Heath Larrowe.

Hampton
Burwell Barrett (04.03.1769-09.05.1836) (bio in Memoirs of Deceased Ministers, E.W. Humphreys, c.1880, p.51)

Hanover, Hanover County
Silas Shelburne (06.04.1790-09.07.1871)

Hayter, Washington County
Barnett Cemetery, GPS: 36.83833,-81.93626,
William G. Barnett (06.08.1842-12.02.1930) (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches Of Our Mountain Preachers, p.78)

Isle of Wight County
Mills Barrett (12.25.1788-04.02.1865) (bio in Memoirs of Deceased Ministers, E.W. Humphreys, c.1880, p.51)

Lee County
Cedar Hill Morelocks Memorial Cemetery, GPS: 36.665361,-83.252477
Joseph Kennedy Osborne (04.05.1860-01.31.1937) (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.234)

Louisa County
Elijah Hansbrough (06.16.1824-06.30.1896)

Turner's Mill Cemetery
James M. Bagby (03.26.1800-05.14.1856) (Find-A-Grave)

Lunenburg, Lunenburg County
James Shelburne (11.29.1738-03.06.1820) (Baptist minister, and father of Silas Shelburne)

Lynchburg, Lynchburg County
Spring Hill Cemetery, GPS: 37.3958,-79.1636
Frank Fontaine Bullard (01.25.1857-05.04.1909) (Find-A-Grave)

Maybrook, Giles County
Lucas Cemetery, GPS: 37.301582,-80.561881
Chapman S. Lucas (05.05.1849-06.20.1896) (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.177)
James H. Wingo (1847-1894) (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.185)

Narrows, Giles County
Hare Cemetery GPS: 37.3394,-80.8139
Landon Duncan (03.26.1786-09.22.1867) (Find-A-Grave)

Pennington Gap, Lee County GPS: 36.70437,-82.97525
Shelburne Cemetery
James Shelburne (12.4.1819-04.08.1890) (Find-A-Grave)
Lucius Clarke Shelburne (03.20.184808.09.1926) (Find-A-Grave)
Silas Ellison Shelburne (04.30.1852-03.15.1920) (Find-A-Grave)

Pittsylvania County
William H. Motley "Billy" (08.07.1823-11.14.1913) ???, (Sketches Of Our Mountain Preachers, p.103)

Roanoke, Roanoke County
Fair View Cemetery, GPS: 37.290798,-79.989607
Byrdine Akers Abbott (01.26.1866-06.24.1936) (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.116)
William Henry Book (07.04.1863-1946) (Find-A-Grave)

Scott County
McKinney-Carter Family Cemetery GPS: 36.7014,-82.8217
Allen Jackson Carter (09.17.1842-05.18.1928) (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.237)

Scottsville, Albemarle County
Scottsville Cemetery, GPS: 37.8119,-78.4944
Reuben Lindsay Coleman (05.13.1807-04.21.1880) (Find-A-Grave) Edited the Christian Intelligencer, first in Richmond, then in Charlottesville.

Snowville, Pulaski County
Snowville Cemetery
George W. Abell (12.11.1818-12.27.1874) (Find-A-Grave)
Dr. Chester Bullard (03.12.1809-02.27.1893) (Find-A-Grave)
Asiel Snow (1797-1884) (Find-A-Grave)

Showalter Cemetery GPS: 37.02216,-80.59187
Josiah Thomas Showalter (7.24.1839-9.22.1915) (Behind Snowville Elementary School - In yard of Thornton Family) (Find-A-Grave) *lp

Strasburg, Shenandoah County
Riverview Cemetery, GPS: 38.9842,-78.3614
John David Hamaker (01.01.1847-10.10.1931) (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Pioneers, West, p.73)

Stony Point, Albemarle County
Goss Family Cemetery GPS: 38.12552,-78.33728
James W. Goss (12.29.1812-11.26.1870) (Find-A-Grave)

Tazewell, Tazewell County,
Maplewood Cemetery, GPS: 37.12803,-81.52104
John Newton Harman (06.10.1854-09.21.1934) (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches Of Our Mountain Preachers, p.95)

Mullin Cemetery, GPS: 37.2617,-81.2978
David Mitchell Scott (12.02.1886-12.24.1933) (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.160)

Victoria, Lunenburg County
Lakeview Cemetery, GPS: 36.9925,-78.2158
Daniel Myles Austin (01.27.1873-10.16.1931) (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.146)

Washington County
Davis Cemetery/Mongle Cemetery GPS: 36.78195,-82.05259,
David Mason Buck (05.22.1823-01.10.1863) (Find-A-Grave)

West Falls Church, Fairfax County
National Memorial Park: GPS: 38.8786011,-77.2031021
Jack Meyer, Sr. (06.03.1902-07.15.1963) Plot# G-222-1, (Find-A-Grave)
Guilford Bonds Stocks (06.09.1913-04.21.1967) (Find-A-Grave)

Whitacre, Frederick County
Heironimus Family Cemetery - 39.33081,-78.32739
Casper Allemong (d. 01.11.1872) (Find-A-Grave) -bio in Memoirs of Deceased Ministers, E.W. Humphreys, c.1880, p.17

Woodland, Carroll County
Calfee Cemetery, GPS: 36.689171,-80.790872,
Henry Calfee (10.26.1828-06.26.1902) (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.226)
Heath Larrowe (12.13.1852-06.30.1901) (Find-A-Grave) (Sketches of Our Mountain Preachers, West, p.251)

Unknown Locations
Peter Ainslie- Drowned in the Pamunky River on his way to a preaching appointment.
Albert Anderson - brother of H.T. Anderson
L.A. Culter (????-????)
Dr. John DuVal
R.Y. Henley
Thomas M. Henley, - Virginia preacher, regular respondant in the Millennial Harbinger.
Uriah Higgason - Virginia preacher who died while going west.
Dr. William H. Hughart
C.S. Lucas (????-????)
E.L. Powell (????-????)

*lp = Ligon Portraiture

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