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DOUGANS CEMETERYRoad 629Cavetown, Page County, Virginia South of Luray, Page Co. snap on smiles ct . Va. ford dealership locator . while on Road 340, take Road 629 east to Road 611 and then keep on 629 East, past a ‘closed store’ on the left to the second dwelling, the residence of Dallas Foster. The cemetery is not on his land, but is contiguous with his back property line. The cemetery area is a triangular shape with an old cedar tree in the northwest corner. lawsuit settlements . It is very overgrown with brush, briars, and brambles. Most of the numerous graves were marked with uninscribed fieldstone markers. The compilers talked with many people of that area but no one seemed to know who was buried there, except that it was a ‘Colored Cemetery’. On 26 May 1988, a Blainesville resident contacted compiler RITENOUR and stated “I have always heard that JULIA SLOAN’S mother was buried there. The Page County News & Courier published the death of Mrs. Julia E. (Ellen) Sloan who died 3 Feb 1951, age 85. Her parents were John and Ellen Hughes Dougans.This cemetery site was examined on 11 April 1988, by Jeanette Conner Ritenour, HC 60, Box 1081, Seven Fountains, Virginia, 22652, and Mazie Cullers, HC 60, Box 1090, Seven Fountains, Virginia, 22652. Mr. Dallas Foster accompanied the compilers to this cemetery site. He resides in the proximity of this cemetery and Cavetown, Page Co. Va.Ellen Hughes Dougans (Wife/of John Dougans, and the mother of Julia Ellen Sloan, who is buried in the ‘Mason’ cemetery on Road 680, at Blainesville, Page Co., Va. Therefore Ellen Hughes Dougans, may or may not have been buried in this Dougans cemetery)