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By WAYNE F. BALDWIN
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
Let it never be said that they were not a determined, courageous trio. Faced with obstacles of growing things such as vines, trees, briars, etc., resembling that of some tropical rain forest, perhaps in Brazil, they trudged on and on, yelping out with individual agonies now and then.
Dot Payne Grove, Sally Dwyer Keyser and Wayne Baldwin in painstakingly sought out and documented for posterity and personal interest data from three old cemeteries in Old Hollow this Friday, afternoon, Jan. 26.
The first stop was at “Breidablikk” the Havstad estate which formerly was Taylor and before that Bry an, the ancestral home of our illustrious relative and politician, the famed William Jennings Bryan. The generous Mrs. Sally Havstad went with us and pointed out the cemetery, now very much in need of repair and cleaning. Which, we found, is in near future plans. Here are resting members of the Taylor family and perhaps others. Those interred here are: Harold Havstad 1907-1970; Ray, son of R. Lee and Ida Taylor, Hugh, son of George W. and Margaret Taylor; Walter T. son of G.W. and M.C. Taylor, Lucie A., wife of Silas J. Monroe; George W. Taylor, Lizzie A. wife of George W. Taylor; a child whose stone we could not read; and it is thought another wife of G.W. Taylor, Nanny Butler.
Our next cemetery, located on the same side of the range, but closer to U.S. 211 about 1/2 miles distance from the first, was the Hambrick/Hamrick cemetery. Guided by Dot Grove, we came upon a immaculately well built free standing stone wall, with magnificent iron gate and gatepost.
Heavily overgrown and very difficult to maneuver through, we took our punishment valiantly and extruded ourselves having accomplished what we’d set out to do. Here interred within the enclosures are, viz: Wade Hamrick, son of W.H. and M.L. Carter; Pattie P. daughter of W.P. and M.E, Hamrick; W.P. and Martha E. Hamrick; Margaret Lavinia Carter, daughter of Pendleton B. and Susan Hamrick; and William Hamilton, son of John F. and Frances Carter.
Outside the wall, but whose plain fieldstone markers had long since been removed are: Esther Jenkins, a
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