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| Cemetery | Cooper-May Cemetery |
| Location | Bergton Area, Rockingham County, Virginia. Cemetery is located on Crab Run Road (Route 820) near Bergton, Virginia. |
| Notes | Shirley Cullers Miller noted: Tradition says there were "old" Coopers buried here before May. Some people also call this the Whetzel Cemetery. Cemetery records compiled by Shirley Cullers Miller using headstones, field/river rocks, papers of Warren Souder and Lewis Yankey, J. Robert Swank’s 1967 records, and through interviews with area residents. |
| Survey Date and Recorder | 26 Nov 2002 Shirley Cullers Miller |
Surnames are sorted by section / plot / row / grave - only sections and rows are shown
| Section | Row | Surname | Given Name & MI | Birth Date | Death Date | Headstone Notes | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May | Clarinda | 1 Jan 1860 | died during infancy, child of Jacob W. May Sr. & Sarah E. "Sally" Snyder | ||||
| Stultz | Susenette "Susan" (May) | 5 Sep 1854 | 3 Jan 1903 | child of Jacob W. May Sr. & Sarah E. "Sally" Snyder, and wife of Benjamin Franklin Stultz | |||
| Cooper | Mary Ann "Annie" (Whetzel) | 31 Aug 1845 | 12 Oct 1930 | child of Jacob R. Whetzel Sr. & Mary Ann Lantz, and 1st wife of Cornelius "Neil" Cooper | |||
| May, Sr. | Jacob W. | 15 May 1819 | 13 Apr 1895 | child of Samuel & Eve Harless May, and husband of Sarah E. "Sally" Snyder | |||
| May | Mary Ann | 31 Jan 1848 | died during infancy, child of Jacob W. May Sr. & Sarah E. "Sally" Snyder | ||||
| May | Addison | 12 Apr 1843 | Feb 1863 | died during the Civil War from fever, child of Jacob W. May Sr. & Sarah E. "Sally" Snyder | |||
| May | Samuel L. | 15 Aug 1844 | 25 Oct 1864 | killed in Civil War, child of Jacob W. May Sr. & Sarah E. "Sally" Snyder | |||
| Whetzel | Grace Viola (Dove) | 11 Jun 1918 | 26 Jul 1937 | child of Jesse William Dove & Blanche Catherine May, and 1st wife of Hays "Ruse" Whetzel. Grace was a daughter-in-law of Lorenzo Dow Whetzel & Carrie Ellen Crider Whetzel | |||
| May | Catherine (Moyer) | 10 Jan 1832 | 18 Jun 1896 | child of Paulser Moyer & Sarah Whetzel, and wife of James M. May | |||
| May | Isaac Samuel | 27 Apr 1878 | 8 Dec 1896 | child of James M. May & Catherine Moyer | |||
| Whetzel | Lorenzo Dow | 6 Apr 1872 | 25 Oct 1952 | child of Jacob R. Whetzel Jr. & Mary Ann Nesselrodt/Nazelrod, and husband of (1) Frances May (2) Carrie Ellen Crider | |||
| Whetzel | Laymond | 1 Aug 1933 | 1 Aug 1933 | child of Loy Elmer Whetzel & Iva Hettie Siever, and grandson of Lorenzo Dow Whetzel & Carrie Ellen Crider | |||
| Whetzel | Cletus | 2 Jan 1909 | 23 Feb 1931 | died in logging accident at age 22, child of Lorenzo Dow Whetzel & his 2nd wife Carrie Ellen Crider | |||
| May | Sarah E. "Sally" (Snyder) | 25 Jun 1818 | 20 Jan 1879 | child of Charles & Catherine Halterman Snyder, and wife of Jacob W. May Sr. | |||
| May | James M., Capt. | 17 Jul 1833 | 26 Aug 1900 | child of Samuel May & Eve Harless, and husband of Catherine Moyer |
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