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in may, me border ram ily gathered at the Amissville fire hall, coming from as far away as Florida, New York and Kansas. The reunion marked a revival of a family relationship that has existed in Rappahannock County for almost a century and a half.
In the early to mid 1800’s, John Corder, his wife Hannah (Way), and their 11 children lived in and around the villages of Flint Hill, Amissville, and Washington. Before moving to Rappahannock County, they lived just across the Rappahannock River (then called Hedgeman’s River) in Fauquier County near Fiery Run.
In 1840, four of John Corder’s sons (Martin, Nathan, Vincent, John, Jr.) and one daughter (Sarah), moved their families to Missouri in a covered wagon train with other Virginians and became pioneer settlers of the “new” west. This year was the first time since 1840 that descendants of these five children of John and Hannah Corder had united with descendants of the other four brothers and two sisters who remained in Rappahannock County.
One of the highlights of the visit for the Corder descendants was the old Corder cemetery near Amissville where John
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