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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Evans graveyard:
                  1937 Feb. 22
                  Research made by Elizabeth McCraw

Cemetery Location:  1.3 miles east Curdsville, Virginia on Route #633; thence 
                    south .6 mile on private road; thence east .5 mile through 
                    field.
                    Buckingham County



Off the old Dobson Bridge road; east of Curdsville, Virginia close to Willis 
Creek, is a very large old graveyard, which from all  indications was once the 
property of wealth.  A high broad rock wall enclose the graves but this has 
fallen in several places.  There are five vaults with large marble slab tops, 
and eight upright tombstones, also a number of unmarked graves.  This graveyard 
is one a part of the o ld Colonel William Evans estate known as “Merioneth”.  
“Merioneth” was said to be a duplicate of his ancestral home in Ireland.  
William Evans was under the command of Washington during the Revolution, and was 
later a Colonel in the Virginia Militia.  Colonel William Evans was born in 
Bucks County Pennsylvania.

The old place seems to be gone and almost forgotten.  No one in the community 
seems to know who owns the graveyard or the surrounding land.  there was a 
dispute about the property, which has never been settled.  Following are the 
names and the inscriptions on the vaults:


Sacred
To the Memory of
Edith Irene Hendrick
Born May 7, 1781
Died March 11, 1840


In Memory of
Harriet H. Grigg
Who died April 3, 1837
In the 36 year of her age.


Sacred to the Memory of
Eliza Y. Baker
Who departed this life Sept. 9, 1830
In the 24 year of her age


In Memory of
John Gannaway
Born October 1, 1778
Died Sept. 9, 1836
In the 57 year of his age


In Memory of Peter S. Grigg
Who was born June 23, 1823
And departed this life
November 25, 1855


Following are the names and the inscriptions on the tombstones.


In Memory of
Martha Evans
Who died the 6th of March 1810
In the 45 year of her age


In Memory of
Capt. L. Brown
Died Nov. 8, 1850
Erected by his widow


Thomas H. Evans
Born 10th Octr. 1825
Departed this life
7th Octr. 1829


In Memory of
Catherine Gannaway
Who was born the 12th of October 1797
And died the 29th of January 1827
In the 50th year of her age.


In Memory of
Martha H. Gannaway
Who was born 9th of March 1920
And died the 5th of March 1825
In the 5th year of her age


In Memory of
Elijah H. Hendrick
Born the 4th of August 1779
And died the 9th of August 1820
In the 41st year of his age


In Memory of
Mary J. Glover
Born  Aug. 15, 1795
Died June 25, 1839


In Memory of 
Mrs. Mary Evans
Born Feb. 2, 1765
Died Aug. 28, 1840



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Tombstone Inscriptions

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