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By Wayne F. Baldwin
Special to the Rappahannock New*
On Nov. 9 at 10 a.m., Leon Waters, Craig Waters, Shirley Waters Edillion, Robert Johnson, Rob Sherwood, Ruth Dwyer Kiger, Jean Dwyer Morris, Clay Gaunt and Wayne Baldwin met in Sperryville and drove up into Old Hollow, then hiked up Piney River Trail to the old Charlie Bowen cemetery.
Here, in a once thriving mountain farming community is the burial ground of several generations. The Bowen family name dominates the interments, but other names include Waters, Manuel, Clatterbuck, Brandon and Rolls.
Lying about two hundred feet to the right of Fork Mountain Trail just after the fork of the Jenny Grey Trail, in a flat overlooking the Piney River. The date this particular cemetery was established is unknown but definitely as early as 1878 which appears on one of the stones.
The land in this hollow, bordered on the east by the Pig Nut Mountain, on the west by Fork Mountain, and on the north by Little Hog Back and the head springs of the Piney, was granted by Lord Fairfax as far back as 1762 to John Strother. Later, Henry Menefee, Sr. was owner, followed by other Menefees, Waters, Bolens, and Bowens at the time of Shenandoah National Park’s creation. The Bowens at this time having a large producfiirn onnln onn/1
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