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Historical Cemetery
Dates to the early 1800's
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The Brucetown cemetery has been part of the community since close to the time a post office was first established for the village Nov. 1, 1819. Burials began in the early 1820s and perhaps sooner. At least one tombstone bears the date 1822. Others are so old as to make identification of their precise date uncertain.

 The cemetery, which once contained the church preceding this one, has been extended westward twice. The first time, in 1910, saw the addition of 35 feet, six inches. The second was in 1975 and added about 3,900 square feet, running for 20 feet along the Brucetown Road, Rt. 672, and 30 feet along the tract’s northern boundary.Old church records indicate the iron fence in front of the church and along the cemetery was installed in 1912, replacing one of wood.  

A numbered list of tombstone inscriptions from the cemetery was compiled in 1984 by Ben Hitter of Winchester and Jerry Reid of Brucetown. It listed 464 identifiable graves, pointing out that many unlettered fieldstones and unmarked graves existed. A number of these were marked by depressions in the earth. In the summer of 1987, these and other uneven spaces that made mowing difficult were filled in with 18 loads of topsoil. Grass seed was planted. 

The cemetery today is cared for by a community organization called the Brucetown Memorial Association. This church-sanctioned group began in the 1940s and was reorganized with new officers March 14 of this year. Some of the earliest recorded writings of  appear below.

 Many founders of the Brucetown church are buried in the cemetery: Among them are William Timberlake, William Tanquary Sr., A.J. Ridgeway, Benjamin F. Loce, and J. Lee Grant. As we remember these and others, the association hopes that as funds are available through activities and donations; work can go beyond maintenance and include the cleaning and repairing of the weathered stones. They hold a wealth of history, roughly 170 years of it.

....Cemetery Restoration News....
Phase II Continues	Historic Cemetery - Surveying of Head Stomes at, Brucetown (Va) United Methodist Church. January 2007 marks another milestone in this restoration project.
The Winchester Star	Historic Cemetery Restored, Brucetown (Va) United Methodist Church. The Winchester Star article written by Linda McCarty, describes the restoration project.

....Brucetown Memorial Association....
Early Meeting Notes	The cemetery today is cared for by a community organization called the Brucetown Memorial Association. Some of the earliest recorded writings of  this church-sanctioned group began in the 1940s and appear at this link.

....Internments....
	The project to document Internments at the Brucetown United Methodist Church cemetery is still underway. Each site is being recorded with digital images, and GPS markers as surveying continues. At the completion of this project, all resources will be made available on this site.