BATH COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Sitlington Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Sitlington cemetery:
                  1936 Nov. 17
                  Research made by Russell G. Wood

Cemetery Location:  2 miles south of Millboro Springs, Virginia on Route #42; 
                    turn west at top of hill on Dickinson road .5 mile on bank 
                    to left of road.
                    Bath County



DESCRIPTION:

This is known as the Sitlington private cemetery.  It has grown up and been 
neglected; has not been used for 35 years.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inscriptions on tombstones:


Capt. Andrew Sitlington
Born Dec. 10, 1785
Died Dec. 13, 1863

(other side of marker)

Nancy Carlisle
His wife
Born Oct. 31, 1797
Died Feb. 20, 1833


In Memory of
Mary Elizabeth Porter
Who departed this life
30th of March 1848
Aged 26 years 10 mo.
The devoted mother and fine companion
This is my commandment and that ye love one another
as I have loved you. John 15: 12
There lies the loveliest chief of all mine earthly joys.
J.P.P.


Capt. Andrew Sitlington was Justice of the peace of Bath County 30 years.  He 
was one of the soldiers from Bath in the 1812 War.  In this cemetery are buried 
Sitlingtons, Dickinsons, and Porters, some of the first settlers of Bath County.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mrs. J.A. Dickinson, Clifton Forge, Virginia, member of D.A.R.

Hardesty’s History of Bath

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker


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