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Sarah Lancaster Gravesite –
Little River District, Floyd Co., VA. 2021
location update: This grave has never been previously
documented. It is located in a well-maintained hay field 200 yards north of
Starbuck Rd SE on property owned by the Marvin Nolen Estate. N 36° 54.984’ W 80° 13.570’
(src: Jim Slusher, Floyd Co.,
VA Historical Society) |
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Original Source: Jim
Slusher, Floyd Co., VA Historical Society Aug 2021. |
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Annotations –
added by Barb Camery Reininger BootsWI@gmail.com
+ indicates on same tombstone
& indicates a relationship
FAG: Find a Grave [Death Registers
n/a] Floyd Co., VA Death Registers n/a 1863-1864 & parts of other years
seeming to be missing. [Death
Cert n/a] Virginia Death Records, with some exceptions, not available
1899-Jun 14, 1912. src: Virginia
Vital Records • FamilySearch]
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Barb,
This is
from Myra Nolen Adams. The grave is on her father’s
place. She’s a pretty good cemetery finder in her own right. She took us on our
first run down County Line Road.
I
found out some information concerning Sarah Lancaster.
My
source is Rev. Ron Young brother-in-law of Billy Brammer. Ron lives in
Fincastle but lived in Floyd County for many years. He is kin to the Lancaster family and has researched their
history.
Sarah
is the daughter of Lewis Washington Lancaster that is buried in old Brammer
cemetery on the Owl Hollow horse farm. He did not know the cause of
death.
Lewis
was, indeed, a Thompsonian doctor, perhaps, the first "doctor"
in Floyd County.
The
Richmond Historical Society has the journal that he kept, that was found on his person when he passed. In the journal were chemicals
to order, a political poem in favor of Thomas Jefferson, perhaps, a hymn, and
in the back of journal some sketches that perhaps his children
drew. It is
interesting to note that the Richmond Historical Society (we found out later)
knew about Sarah’s grave when very few in Floyd County were aware of it.
He
said he had intended to provide the Floyd County Historical Society a copy of
his transcription of the journal.
Ron
said he would be happy to talk to the Floyd County Historical Society and/or
Floyd Press concerning the Sarah Lancaster gravesite or Lewis Washington
Lancaster.
It is a small world, for sure. Ron rode with
my Dad to the Radford Arsenal in the 1950's
Jim Slusher, Floyd Co., VA Historical Society