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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 in Blue – added May 2021 by Barb
Camery Reininger
Annotations in Red – correction to original
text by Barb Camery Reininger + indicates on same
tombstone
&
indicates a relationship
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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.