Back On the Bookshelf – ‘In Loving Memory’ Frost to Dunmore, 2021

Frost to Dunmore, in the In Loving Memory series of cemetery books, first printed in 2010, has been updated and is available again for $12.

Within this updated book are 24 cemeteries and burial sites located along Rt. 84 near Frost and along State Route 92 from Frost to Dunmore – Congdon, Carpenter, Taylor-Townsend, Joseph Sharp, Curry, Abraham Sharp, Rachel Sharp, Austin Sharp, Bowers, Gilmer Sharp, Gragg, Ryder, Bannis Buzzard, Snowden Buzzard, Joseph Moore, Howard Buzzard, Warwick Shinabery, Lindsay, Shinaberry-Buzzard, Grimes, Cornelius Buzzard, Rev. Henry Arbogast History, Dilley, Baxter, McLaughlin.

In addition to updating active cemeteries, four new cemeteries are recorded in this book – Congdon Cremains, Carpenter Marker, Rachel Sharp Cemetery and Ryder Family Cemetery.

The Pocahontas County Genealogy Group continues its quest to find and record old cemeteries before the knowledge of those cemeteries is lost forever.

The current list of known cemeteries and burial sites within the county now totals 371. The Genealogy Group has inventoried and documented 252 cemeteries, 207 of which have been published in a series of nine books titled, In Loving Memory.

In Loving Memory cemetery books are available for sale at The Pocahontas Times office or by contacting Jan Orndorff at rjorndorff@htcnet.org or Gail Hyer at mountaincousins@gmail.com