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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Eldridge graveyard:
                  1937 Feb. 4
                  Research made by Garnett Agee Williams

Cemetery Location:  1 mile north of Buckingham, Virginia on Route #631, in the 
                    forks of the North and Slate Rivers.
                    Buckingham County


DATE:

1799.  The oldest grave marker.

OWNERS:

The Eldridge family.

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is nicely kept by the descendants of the Eldridge family.  All 
markers are medium size marble slabs.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Following are the tombstone inscriptions:


Benjamin Mosely
Born 1760
Died 1799
Served as First Lieutenant in the First
Battalion of Artillery Revolutionary War


Mary Branch Moseley
Born 1764
Died 1848


Mary Eldridge
Born 1810


Elizabeth Eldridge Austin
Born 1816
Died 1863


William Moseley Eldridge
Born 1825
Died 1863


Martha Bolling Eldridge
Born 1829
Died 1865


Rolfe Eldridge, Jr.
Born 1740
Died 1861


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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