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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Gordon graveyard:
                  1937 Feb. 5
                  Research made by Elizabeth McCraw

Cemetery Location:  3.5 miles southeast of Andersonville, Virginia, on Route 
                    #637, thence 50 yards north of the highway.
                    Buckingham County


DATE:

1847.  The oldest grave marker.

OWNERS:

The estate is now owned by W.M. Trent, but originally owned by a Dr. Gordon, who 
settled in Buckingham about the beginning of the 19th century.

DESCRIPTION:

There are a number of graves scattered around in this half acre of land, but 
only the grave of one is marked.  This grave is enclosed by an iron fence and a 
flat marble slab covers the entire grave, and contains the inscription.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The tombstone inscription follows:


Robert Dunbar Gordon, M.D.
Born at Bermuda Hundred
April 26, 1785
and died at his residence in
Buckingham County
June 4, 1847
Aged 62 years, one month and nine days


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

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