AMHERST COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Mahone Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The old Mahone cemetery:
                  1936 Mar. 19
                  Research made by Hettie Snead Nelson

Cemetery Location:  Madison Heights, Virginia, Go out Main Street to Fifth 
                    Street, thence one square to Church and Fifth Streets.
                    Amherst County




DESCRIPTION:

It is unkept with old sunken graves.  It has more than one hundred graves.  The 
one with the oldest inscription is seven feet tall, and sixteen inches square, 
of gray granite.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The inscription which follows:


In memory of Father & Mother
Chiswell D. Mahone
Died Nov. 28, 1873
and
Mary A. Gruber
Wife of Chiswell Mahone
Born March 20, 1830
Died Oct. 23, 1869


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:

Mrs. W.W. Spivey, Madison Heights, Virginia


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