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)

Original Source: Jim Slusher, Floyd Co., VA Historical Society Aug 2021.

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Annotations – added by Barb Camery Reininger BootsWI@gmail.com

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[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]

Notes:

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NAME

BIRTH

DEATH

MARKER NOTES

ANNOTATIONS

(src: Jim Slusher, Floyd Co., VA Historical Society)

Lancaster, Sarah

22 May 1822

20 Sep 1839

In Memory Of

Sarah Lancaster, d/o Lewis Washington & Nancy (Wheeler) Lancaster. [Death Registers n/a] [Lancaster_John_Ellen]

 

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