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By WAYNE F. BALDWIN
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
David M. Dwyer, Daniel and Sally Dwyer Keyser of Old Hollow, Deborah Keyser of Winchester, daughter of Daniel and Sally, Annie Dwyer of Culpeper and Wayne Baldwin (three of us for a second time that month) again embarked upon the trails. Our route from Skyline Drive to the chain across the road in Thronton Hollow was 4.9 miles, with another half mile or so added before we reached our parked vehicle.
Our trail this day, Saturday, April 17,1993, we believed to be less strenuous, it being all downhill. We anticipated no great obsticles but found that the Thornton River might prove to be one. However, I’m ahead of the story.
I had hiked this old trail more than twenty years ago, alone, and unlearned of the acquaintances who once thrived here. It was at Sally’s request I came along today, as she had acquired here brother to “show us” where folks had lived and things had once been.
Our first stop was at the Armentrout Cemetery. This is about one to one and a half miles down the trail and about 300 yards to the left. There are the graves of at least six persons, three of which have inscribed stones, i.e., (David Benton) Armentrout, Ida Belle Armentrout Johnson, and Mrs. L.E. (Louise Judd) Armentrout. Not too far from the cemetery on the other side of the road is the foundation of either a house or barn and the remains of a walled spring, all of which in early
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