Augusta County VA Archives Cemeteries....Payne's Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery
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Glenda Lambert-Gibson <LilMel459@aol.com> September 8, 2009

Payne's Chapel United Methodist Church
Stover Shop Rd.
Mt. Solon, Virginia 22843


This is a very old family/neighbor cemetery on a wooded hilltop heavily
overgrown, although with clearings created by a thick myrtle groundcover.

It is located about one mile by road from the church, reached by a private
drive on the west side of Jennings Gap Rd. a short distance south of Stover Shop Rd.

It evidently served as an early burying ground for the Hogshead family (Hogsett may
be a later variant of the name) and other early settlers. Many old stones are hand-
incised with Hogshead names, with birth dates ranging from the late 1700s and
death dates from the early to late 1800s. Unlettered fieldstones mark many graves,
and there are many unmarked declivities. 

Other names appearing in this cemetery are Fifer, Dudley, Richey, Bittle, Brown, and 
Kilpatrick (?), with death dates from 1812 to 1874.

The 1884 Hotchkiss map depicts Hogshead and Gilkeson as contiguous, and at
some point in time the Gilkesons acquired ownership of the graveyard.

The African- American sector is on the northwest side of this hilltop cemetery.
The few legible stones we could find are as follows:

Brown, Mabel M.		b 20 Apr 1897 - d 22 May 1914	d/o Robert & Cornelia Brown
Brown, Paul B.		b  4 Oct 1911 - d  7 Jan 1913	s/o M.G.& Gracie Brown
Peyton, Ashby		b (c) 1822 - d 20 Apr 1902	80 yr "Father"
Peyton, Edward		b (c) 1875 - d  1 Nov 189(?)	24 yr
Peyton, Silla		b (c) 1828 - d 15 Jul 1893	65 yr "Mother" w/o Ashby Peyton
Peyton, Arthur		b (c) 1865 - d 30 Oct 1892	27 yr
Rankin, Annie P.	b (c) 1870 - d 20 Jan 1896	26 yr
Peyton, _______		b 1911 - d --Apr 1911		2 da s/o O.R. & A.B. Peyton
Pleasant, Mattie	b 25 Sep 1887 - d 25 Apr 1912	d/0 Jeff & Hannah Pleasant

Mrs. Peyton Keller says that her great grandmother, Fanny Tyndale, and Fannie's son,
Morris, are buried in this cemetery. Mrs. Roy (Rosie Williams) Kincaid, a 
Staunton resident whose family attened Payne's Chapel, says that her twin sisters,
Martha and Mary Williams, were buried there in the early 1930s.

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