Death record states "Barney"

son of Lewis Bernard and Jane Kyle Pitzer of Covington, VA.

In 1868, Bernard Pitzer purchased land to establish East Hill Cemetery North for African American gravesites.

Below is from the following website:

http://www.hmdb.ort/marker.asp?marker=4873

Regarding East Hill Cemetery North. In 1868, this plot was purchased by Bernard Pitzer from the estate of Nathaniel Burwell to establish an African American burial ground. It soon became the most prominent black cemetery in town. It is still active but seldom used today. The city maintains it, but many gravestones are toppled or displaced. More than a hundred others are unmarked entirely. Among prominent citizens buried here are the Reverend B. F. Fox, pastor of First Baptist and Shiloh Baptist Churches.

See the link regarding further information on this cemetery.

from the Salem Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 13, dated 24 May 1898

FUNERAL OF MRS. PITZER.

Some Interesting Facts in Regard to Her Life.

The remains of Mrs. Fannie Pitzer, formerly of this place, who died last Saturday morning at the home of her son, Dr. A. W. Pitzer, pastor Central Presbyterian church of Washington, D. C. were brought here for burial, arriving on the early train Sunday morning.

The very impressive funeral service was conducted by Rev. J. M. Holladay, of Blacksburg, in the Presbyterian church at 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon, after which the interment was made in East Hill Cemetery. The active pall-beaaers [sic] were: Dr. R. M. Wiley, Messrs. Wm. Simpson, Wm. Johnston, D. C. Stover, W. B. Bowles and J. H. Palmer and Dr. O. Wiley, Judge H. E. Blair, Dr. S. C. Wells and W. D. F. Duval acted as honorary pall-bearers.

The maiden name of the deceased was Frances Louisa White, daughter of Samuel White and Fanny Penn, and a sister of Mr. Alex White, of Fort Lewis, near Salem, at which place she was born, March 5, 1816.

Her father, Col. White, was one of the early settlers of this region, and purchased the magnificent estate, named Fort Lewis from the fort built by Gen. Andrew Lewis, and her mother was a descendant of the famous William Penn.

Only two members of her large family survive her, a brother, Mr. Alex White, and a sister, Mrs. Paulina Stratton, of Chicago, now in her ninetieth year.

Her son, Rev. A. W. Pitzer, has been pastor of Central Church, Washington, for 31 years, of which he was the founder and organizer. He has been President of the City Bible Society for 23 years, is President of the Evangelical Alliance, and Stated clerk of the Presbytery of Chesapeake. He was for fifteen years Professor of Biblical Theology in Howard University and is now a trustee of Hampden Sidney College, as well as the author of a number of books of large circulation.

Miss White, at the age of 17, was married to Bernard Pitzer (Aug. 1, 1833) and they lived in Salem until the death of her husband about three years ago.

She had joined the church when a little girl, having been converted (at a Methodist revival in Lynchburg, while attending school there. For more than sixty years, she was a member of the Salem Presbyterian church, was a regular attendant at its meetings, kept the communion services, entertained the preachers, and aided in every good work.
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