APPOMATTOX COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Holland Grave
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Capt. Richard Holland’s grave:
                  1937 June 3
                  Research made by E. Lewis Paulette

Cemetery Location:  On “Old Walker Home” place.  5 miles north of Pamplin, Va., 
                    on Route #600; thence .4 mile west on Route #627; thence .4 
                    mile northwest on Route #628.  Grave 200 yards south of 
                    road.
                    Appomattox County



OWNERS:

Always owned by the Walkers and their descendants

DESCRIPTION:

This cemetery is well kept.  It contains many graves but with no markers except 
that of Capt. Holland.  In 1934 the Daughters of the Revolution placed a stone 
over the grave of Capt. Holland.  This stone is about 3 feet high and cut from 
gray Granite, with the following inscription:


Richard Holland
VA
Capt. Walkers Reg.
Rev. War.
1820


HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The Holland family came to this country in the early 1700’s from England and 
this family can be traced back as far as 1322.  Capt. Richard Holland was born 
in Prince Edward County in 1755, answering the call to arms at the outbreak of 
the Revolution he was appointed Ensign, later made a Lieutenant under Capt. 
Walker, who was killed in the battle of Guilford Court House, N.C. in 1779.  
Richard Holland was then made Captain, serving as such until the end of the War.  
It is said that before Capt. Walker died, he requested a pencil and paper, wrote 
a note to his young wife and had this wrapped and tied to the bridle of his 
horse.  The horse was then turned loose to come home.  One night the young wife, 
hearing a noise at the door, went out and found her husbands horse standing 
there with the note for her.

Capt. Holland evidently admired Mrs. Holland very much as he remarked to some of 
his brother officers, that if he lived to the end of the War, that he was going 
to marry the widow of his beloved Capt. Walker.  This he did after two years of 
courtship.  When death came to him, he was buried in the old Walker burying 
ground.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:

Mrs. J.L. Bugg, Historian of the D.A.R. Chapter, Farmville, Va.
Miss Maggie Hix, one of the owners of the old Walker farm.  Pamplin, Va.
Mr. Wilson Hix, also one of the owners of the old Walker farm.


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