ALBEMARLE:  CEMETERY RECORDS –  “FOREST HILL” 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, Forest Hill:
                  1938 Mar. 4
                  Research made by R. E. Hannum

Cemetery Location:  2.9 miles south of Shadwell, Virginia, on Route #729; thence 
                    south .1 mile on private road; thence east .3 of a mile on 
                    private road.
                    Albemarle County



This property was once part of the large Carter tract, and was later the home of 
John Watson, who was a magistrate in 1800 and served as sheriff in 1825.  He 
purchased “Forest Hill” in 1813 and lived there until his death in 1841.  He 
married Jane, daughter of Richard Price, one of their sons, John W. C. Watson, 
was admitted to the Albemarle bar in 1830, but moved to Holly Springs, 
Mississippi, and represented that state during the  War Between the States. 
Another son, Egbert, was one of the leading lawyers of Charlottesville and Judge 
of the Circuit Court at the end of the war.  He died in 1887.

The small cemetery has three very large white oaks in it and there are at lest 
five other graves that are unmarked.

The cemetery is southwest of the house, only two graves are marked, as follows:


In memory of
Richard Watson Garrett
Who in the rich morning of youth
was taken from his bereaved and
sorrowing friends.  He was the
object of many hopes in life and
remains deeply and bitterly lamented
in death.
Born May 23rd 1831
Died Feb. 3rd, 1849


Here sleeps our little Douglas,
infant son of James C. and Virginia Watson
Born Oct. 5th 1860
Died May 16th 1862