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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Claiborne cemetery:
                  1937 June 1
                  Research made by Rosa G. Williams

Cemetery Location:  1.2 miles north of Dillwyn, Virginia on Route #15; thence 2 
                    miles east on Route #650; thence 1 mile south by woods path.
                    Buckingham County


DATE:

1851, date of oldest grave marker.

OWNERS:

This cemetery was reserved by the Claiborne family when the place was sold to 
J.C. Blackwell many years ago.

DESCRIPTION:

This old cemetery is located in a large body of pine woods, in a cow pasture, 
about 1 mile from a dwelling.  I found only one marker, if there were others 
they have been destroyed, there are no more graves visible, but I have been told 
by old inhabitants that there were others.

This marker was very large.  It was of granite rock with a beveled edge, with a 
hand carved near the top, with a finger pointing upward, with the following 
inscription over it.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inscription on tombstone:

There is rest in Heaven     (over finger)
John Claiborne 
was born May 11, 1764
Died August 3, 1851



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:
Mr. P. Claiborne, Dillwyn, Virginia, great-great-nephew of John Claiborne.
J.C. Blackwell, Dillwyn, Virginia, present owner of farm.

Tombstone Inscription



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