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headstone (memorial)- Whitesel, Mary Eliz UB Church Rockingham VA.jpg

20190405HAv- pasted and re-organized from front Media Details, Whitesel memorial:

Cemetery-Whitesels-UB-Ch-marker Rockingham Co, Virginia RennaWarrenadded this on 17 Jul 2010
JoyceGayCrague originally submitted this to Gay - Crague Family Tree on 17 Jan 2010

Pleasant Valley area, Rockingham County, Virginia.
From the corner of Route 11 south (Main Street) and Route 659 (Port Republic Road) travel east 5.3 miles on Route 659.
Turn right onto Route 276 (Cross Keys Road). Go a short distance and turn right onto Route 679 (Battlefield Road).
Go to Route 681 (N Whitsel Church Road) and turn left.
Cemetery is on the left side of the road.

Notes Cemetery is well maintained with fence around it.
In 1987 Brett & Judy Nordgren provided the data and notes in the Remarks Column. They also noted;
The site is presently occupied by a small Mennonite Church, the original United Brethren Church building having been removed in 1976.

Inscription on historical monument:
WHITESELS
UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH
"Mary Whitesel, widow of Peter Whitesel Sr. and her eight children came from Maryland to Virginia in 1778.
In 1824, her son Peter Jr. donated this land on which a log church building was erected. The First United Brethren Church building in Virginia. The log structure was replaced in 1874 and in 1893 the second building was replaced by a frame building which was removed in 1976.
Mother Mary Whitesel is buried here in an unmarked grave.

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