Glebe Burying Ground

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The vestry of Augusta Parish purchased 200 acres here in 1749 to serve as a glebe, farmland set aside to support the minister. Just to the southwest, on a portion of this property, the parish established the first public cemetery in the vicinity. Grave markers reflect English, German, and Scots-Irish funerary art traditions of the 18th and 19th centuries. Buried here are several Revolutionary War soldiers and Col. John Wilson, member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1748 to 1773. Also interred here are at least three settlers killed by Shawnee Indians in attacks during Pontiac's War (1763-1766). The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. NOTE: Among the Revolutionary War veterans buried at the Glebe are Capt. John Young, Thomas Young, Lewis Shuey, Capt. James Ewing, and Capt. Samuel McCutchan.

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

John Young, captain's commission, 14 November 1775 Katherine E. Bushman, comp., Register of Soldiers of the American Revolution who Died and Lie Buried in Augusta County, Virginia (1988) Burials in Augusta County, Virginia, Cemeteries, Part 1 (1979) Pension Roll of 1835, vol. 3, The Southern States Major W.A. Murphy and Mrs. W.W. King, comps., Glebe Burying Ground 1749 (1934) Glebe Burying Ground, NRHP Nomination (1985) DAR Genealogical Research Databases Joseph A. Waddell, Annals of Augusta County (1958) J. Lewis Peyton, History of Augusta County, Virginia (1953) D.B. Shuey, History of the Shuey Family in America (1919) Augusta County Deed Book 2 Nancy Sorrells, "The Augusta Parish Glebe," Augusta Historical Bulletin, vol. 29, no. 2 (Fall 1993).