BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Chambers Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Chambers cemetery:
                  1936 Sept. 22
                  Research made by Garnett Agee Williams

Cemetery Location:  2.75 miles west of Ransons, Virginia on Route #659, thence 
                    20 yards north of Route #659
                    Buckingham County


DATE:

1805, date of oldest grave marker.

OWNERS:

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DESCRIPTION:

This is a very old cemetery in the midst of a corn field.  It is kept in fair 
condition by the renter of the old Chambers homestead.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inscriptions on tombstones:


Irene 
Daughter of J. Walter & Pattie Henson
Born Sept. 28th, 1860
Died Oct. 26th, 1862
I am going to my home in Heaven


Susan E. Chambers
Born 1830
Died 1837


Elizabeth Chambers
born 1805
Died 1836


Martha Chambers
Born 1763
Died 1805


John Chambers
Born 1760
Died 1815

The stone for Irene Henson is a small marble slab and in good condition.  The 
last four stones are very small, made of marble.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

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