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| The Virginia Genealogist, April-June 1983 |
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Preface for Book 1
TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS
Toms Brook and Vicinity Shenandoah County, Virginia |
This compilation is being published as another tool for family-historians, genealogists, and others, who have a sincere interest in their ancestors, and a deep respect for the memory of our deceased and their final resting places, as it is all too common for individuals to forget their ancestors, and the memory dulls with each succeeding generation.
Each year many family bibles and other family records are destroyed by fire and water, and inexorable elements and forces each year obliterate many tombstone inscriptions.
I pray that my hands have correctly recorded what my eyes have perceived on the tombstones and markers, and that my perception of the inscriptions was not faulty, and if there are errors herein, they are not intentional, but represent the frailties of man.
The inscriptions were copied in September of 1980 by this researcher, and two simple symbols are used throughout - (ss) refers to plural inscriptions on a tombstone or marker, and (s) as a separate stone and inscription. The inscriptions were recorded from the back property lines toward the Churches and the ingress to the burial ground, unless otherwise stated herein.
The index herein represents some 400 plus family surnames, and some 3,500 plus individuals. The seventeen cemeteries represented herein are to be found in the lower Shenandoah Valley of Virginia between Woodstock, Virginia on the Southwest, and Fishers Hill on the Northeast, encompassing a fifteen mile stretch.
There are many minor spelling variations in the surnames in this valley, such as "Beydler" and "Beidler"; "Hamman", "Hammon", and "Hammond"j "Ritenour" and "Ridenour"; "Spiggle", "Spigle", and "Spiegel"1; "Windle", "Wendel", "Wendle", and "Wendell"; and it can be found that one variation of a name represented one community, wh-eras another variation of the same name represented yet another com munity.
Edmund Burke has written - "He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasurers up and preserves the history of his ancestors."
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