ALBEMARLE:  CEMETERY RECORDS –  “EDGEMONT” CEMETERY

Contributed by:  Joan Renfrow

NOTICE:  I have no relationship or further information in regards to this 
family.  

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Edgemont, home of Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Johnson:
                  1937 Mar. 24
                  Research made by R. E. Hannum

Cemetery Location:  4 miles north of Keene, Va., on Route #712, .4 mile west of 
                    highway.
                    Albemarle County



The plans for “Edgemont” were designed by Thomas Jefferson in 1806, being 
founded upon the  Villa Rotunda design of Palladic.  These plans and designs are 
in the Jefferson Collection at the University of Virginia.

The cemetery is said to have been well kept but honeysuckle, poison ivy, grape 
vines, etc., have completely over-run it.  The cemetery and garden walks were 
lined with English box.  It is said that there is a rook wall around the lot but 
even this is now hidden from view by the growth of vines, which has pulled down 
a marble shaft and completely covered marble slabs.  Some of the inscriptions in 
the cemetery are:


James Powell Cooke
Born at Malvern Hills on James River
Died January 13, 1829


James Powell Cooke, Jr.
Died January 20, 1812


Sarah W. Taylor
Wife of Charles Cooke
Died November 26, 1834