Tombstone Inscriptions of Orange County, Virginia
Margaret C. Klein
Volume totaling 132 pages in new condition. 
Description per the publisher.
Carved out of Spotsylvania County in 1734, Orange County, 
Virginia was one of those peculiar “feeder” counties, a conduit for migration to 
points south and west, yet it also managed to attract a large number of 
permanent settlers. There is, however, comparatively little published 
genealogical material available on Orange County, though a good deal of 
unrecorded information exists, especially in cemeteries. This simple discovery 
led Dr. Klein to make a record of gravestone inscriptions and unmarked but known 
burials throughout the county. The work in hand records tombstone inscriptions 
in 150 cemeteries, thirty-three church cemeteries, and some half-dozen 
proprietary cemeteries, resulting in the enumeration of perhaps as many as three 
thousand Orange County inhabitants, giving dates of birth and death and 
frequently specifying family relationships. To keep the data within practical 
limits, the author recorded the inscriptions of persons who either died before 
1900 or were born before 1850, including, where appropriate, data on wives, 
husbands, and children who did not fit the criteria. In family cemeteries, of 
course, every headstone was transcribed.
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