ALLEGHANY COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Dew Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Dew cemetery:
                  1937 June 8
                  Research made by L. Blanche Bess
                  combined with:
                  Survey Report, Dew cemetery
                  1937 Apr. 20
                  Research made by Robert Stover

Cemetery Location:  Go 18 miles southwest of Covington, Routes #60 and #18, on 
                    Absolom Dew’s lands.
                    Alleghany County



Description:

This is a private burying ground and was established in the early days when the 
Dew family settled in what is now Alleghany County.  The location is good.  It 
is on a rise above Potts Creek, in a very peaceful place.

When this land has been transferred from time to time, the graveyard has been 
held in trust.

It has been woefully neglected for years.  The fence has long since fallen away 
and only the rocks where the corners rested, remain.

The graves are out in the open field.  There are a number of stones that bear no 
inscription and there are sunken places where there are no stones, but we feel 
sure that they were graves.

Historical Significance:

The Dews were large land owners and came here in the early days from their 
plantation called “Dewsville” in King and Queen County.

There are a few stones, bearing inscriptions.  Some are dim, while others are 
quite legible.  This was a fine piece of hand-work.  Some of the inscriptions 
are beautifully done in a fine Spencerian hand-writing, as fine as if done with 
a quill pen.  It hardly seems possible that such lovely work could have been 
done on mountain stones and to have remained legible for such a long period of 
time.

Following Inscriptions:


Unfenced – A row of five graves, all Dews with hard black slate markers – two 
have inscriptions)

William Dew
Born 1827
Died Aug 27
on the side of this stone if April 12, 1846
Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord
Age 68 yrs.
(This writing was cut by William’s son, Absolom and “April 12, 1846” is probably 
the date of the death of William’s wife Mary.)


Joe Terry was buried here about 1885


Samuel Dew
Aged 23 yrs, 11 days
Died June A.D. 1841 (or 1844)
(This is another son of William)


It is thought that Absolom and Charles are the other two buried in the same row 
– Authority Mrs. H.D. Robinson, Mr. Lee Scott.


Fenced in (wire fence) 7 visible graves.


With stone:
Sarah
wife of A.P. Jamison
b. 1870


A slate headstone with writing:
Victoria A. Wolfe
age 24 years 9 mo. 10 da.
departed from this life Oct. 30
(This woman was a daughter of Absolom Dew and married Liberty Wolfe says Mrs. 
H.P. Robinson.  She died approx. 1880)


Other known graves within:


John Tunnil
Died 1790
(no marker)


Liberty Wolfe
and
Daniel Wolfe
(both died of diphtheria, only few years difference in their births and few days 
in death.) d. about 1888 age approx. 50 years

Daniel Wolfe married Taylor Dew, a sister to Victoria and is also buried within 
the fence.


Sources of Information:

Informants:  Mr. W.G. Wright, Jordan Mines, Virginia
             Mrs. Jackson Hepler
             Mrs. Lee Scott
             Mr. Mose Wright
             Mrs. H.P. Robinson

Court Records, Clerk’s Office,
Alleghany County, Covington, Virginia

Alleghany County Records.


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