Comments: The following cemeteries specifically mention the Shiflet/Shifflett/Shiplet family. More family cemteries listed by “name” are listed after the sources. For more information re: directions to those cemeteries, contact me, Kim Morris kimorris@gte.net
Created 16 May 1999
GREENE COUNTY
COLLIER/SHIFFLETT/WATSON: From South River Picnic Grounds, follow Appalachian Trail southward about 1 mi. and find on left Saddleback Mountain westward rise to 3,296-ft. elevation Down small incline to right is old home site on park-land tract 77, S.B. and C.F. Collier. Cross rise northeastward. Ahead is a flat, an old road, wagon hubs, a large multiple tree arrow-carved, and the cemetery with a giant oak. About 75 burials, a joining of what were once separate cemeteries, Watson and Shifflett. FRB, GD, NPS.
HANEY/SHIFFLETT: Sometimes called Fern Hill. About .3 mi. north of Swift Run Gap and about .1 mi. east of Appalachian Trail. Maintenance with hand tools. Old fence poor; small section enclosed by good chain-link fence. At least 35 burials. Oldest: Josie A. Dean, 1856-1917; latest: Lizzie J. Knighton, 1886-1945. Three Shifflett family burials inside chain-link fence, all 1932. LB
Or park at first (unnamed) overlook north of U.S. 33. Across from parking place, eastward, follow footpath that will cross the Appalachian Trail and continue to cemetery. JCR.
ROCKINGHAM COUNTY
JEREMIAH DEAN: About 50 ft. south of old Dean Mountain Road, very near the park boundary as road egresses toward Cedar Falls. Cemetery on knoll about 200 ft. west of massive standing chimney. A few stones. One or more graves may be "Shiplets". JCR, GD.
NANGUS SHIFLETT: From roadside table on US 33, Swift Run Gap, climb south bank to old Spotswood Trail and go about .5 mi. downhill (west). Cemetery on right slope, fenced (every post with inverted tin can on top to help prevent rot), no gate, some maintenance by hand tools. About 8-25 burials. Oldest : Selena V. Shiflett, 1883-84; latest: Myrtle L Shifflett 1903-1903. Cemetery probably named for Vernangus (Angus, Nanges) Shifflett. Shiflet Lam buried here. LB, JCR, FRB
MORRIS/ SHIFFLETT: Far up Sandy Bottom "under Swift Run Overlook on Skyline Drive", park-land tract 221, Samuel Morris, or park-land tract 132a, John Henry Shifflett. Overgrown. Five or more burials. Latest: Josie Shifflett, 1945, age 48. NPS
HENSLEY/SHIFFLETT/POWELL: Sometimes called Turner Shifflett or Hill Shifflett
(for Turner's son, Hilary). On west side of Roundtop Mountain, quite far down,
about 200 ft. short of (behind) old house site, on park-land tract 47a, Soloman
J. Hensley. Cemetery 50 by 50 ft., overgrown. Fifty or more burials. Native stone
markers, and a marble headstone for Angus J. Shifflett. Or find from Powell Gap,
starting northward on the Appalachian Trail, then following old wagon road that
diverges, about 1 mi. to house site. Inscriptions as far back as 1850. Honorias
Powell, who owned a thousand acres nearby (and for whom gap probably named) was
buried here, according to Billie Jo Monger. Turner Shifflett was a grandson of
Powell. NPS, JCR, LB, EDL. (ed. note: Turner Shiflet m. Milly Powell, d/o
Honorius and Mary Beasley Powell, and grandaughter of John and Ann Powell of Culpeper
Co. See Powell Chart. No evidence
has yet been found to support Turner having a Powell in his lineage.)
GEORGE SHIFFLETT: High in Beldor Hollow on south side of old Simmons road near lower park gate, on park-land tract 182, George Minor Shifflett. Overgrown, old wire fence 12 by 40 ft. Ten or more burials, with metal and slate markers. NPS
HAM SHIFFLETT: On small knoll north of state route 628, which becomes park fire road, near lower gate northwest of Simmons Gap, on park-land tract 178, Ambrose W. Shifflett. Now forest. Four or more burials. NPS, JCR
SOURCES:
Persons needing more information, or able to correct or improve information here, are invited to discuss cemeteries with searchers whose initials follow the entires above:
LB: Lois B. Bowman (540) 434-8208; parts of her informaiotn, as labeled, came to her quite complete from Dorothy and James Galloway of Ohio.
FRB: Fonda and Roy Breeden (540) 298-8292
GD: Gloria Dean (540) 298-8661
JRJ: James R. "Bob" Johnson (540) 743-5687
EDL: Eileen and Darwin Lambert (540) 743- 7246
DCL: David C. Lyne, a graduate student at the University of Virginia in mid- 1970's.
Additional facts in his l7;Preliminary Survey of the Cemeteries in the Rappahannock Portion of Shenandoah National Park: in Michael A. Hoffman, 'Man in the Blue Ridge'”, pp. 354-89, SNP archives, Luray, VA. (Page Co.)
NPS: “Information on Known Cemeteries within Shenandoah National Park”, 14 p. report issued by Duane Jacobs, Chief Ranger, Jan. 27, 1954, SNP ranger files, Luray, VA.
JCR: Jack and Carolyn Reeder (202) 244-3224.
CR: Clinton Runyon (540) 743-4116; might be able to help with any cemetery in north and central districts.
Look-ups/directions to these cemeteries by Kim Morris kimorris@gte.net
ALBEMARLE COUNTY
HOWARD
VIA
MOORMAN/TURK
McCRAIG
AUGUSTA COUNTY
INDIAN MOUNDS
GREENE COUNTY
BOOTEN/McDANIEL
DEVILS DITCH
LAM
LEWIS CLUSTER/ROACH
SHILOH
SHILOH/LAM
POCOSIN
POCOSIN MISSION
MEADOWS/SOUTH RIVER
SOUTH RIVER
DEAN/MEADOWS
LAM'S MILL
CALVIN MORRIS
MORRIS
SIMMONS GRAVE
SIMMONS GAP 2
SIMMONS GAP 3
MADISON COUNTY
NICHOLSON
CORBIN/NICHOLSON
CORBIN HOLLOW
DYER
WEAKLEY
TAYLOR
SISK
SOURS
DALLAS ANDERSON
BERRY
CAVE/BREEDEN/BURACKER
SHEDFIELD
MEADOWS/ANDERSON
ALGER/SMITH/GRAYSON
WEAKLEY
WILHOITE
BUSH/JENKINS
JONES/TAYLOR
NICHOLS
ESTES/STANTON
PAGE COUNTY
FORSYTH
MORGAN
BAILEY
WATERS
JUDD/SHENK
SANFORD
FOX
SHENK
BEAHM
BARBEE
INDIAN MOUND
SKYLAND
BURACKER
BIG MEADOWS
THOMAS/MEADOWS
GRAY
BLOSE
SLAUGHTER
RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY
CLARK/KELLY
JENKINS/KEYSER
BAILEY/CLATTERBUCK
BOLEN
BEAHM
DWYER
BOWEN
BOWEN
BOWEN/WATERS
ARMENTROUT
JENKINS
PULLEN
MENEFEE
DARNELL
BROWN
BRUCE
CLARK
CLISER
WILLIS/PULLEN/MENEFEE
ATKINS/DODSON
ATKINS
DODSON/HAZEL
JENKINS/ATKINS/WHARTON
ATKINS/DODSON/HAZEL
ROCKINGHAM COUNTY
DEAN
HENSLEY
SHIPP/BAUGHER
LEE
MAIDEN
BAUGHER
LAWRENCE WILLIAMS
LINSEY WILLIAMS
SLAVE BURIALS
SMITH ROACH
OTHER ROACH
HERRING
JAMES WILLIAMS
