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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Guthria cemetery:
                  1936 Aug. 4
                  Research made by Rosa G. Williams

Cemetery Location:  5 miles east of Sprouses Corner on Route #60; thence .1 of a 
                    mile south on Route #623; thence east 2.3 miles on Route 
                    #634; thence .25 mile north on private road to cemetery.
                    Buckingham County


DATE:

1837, land acquired by Guthria family.

OWNERS:

This cemetery has remained in the same branch of the Guthria family for over 100 
years; heirs of Thomas Guthria being the owners at present. (1936)

DESCRIPTION:

This cemetery is in a terrible state of preservation.  Woods, brush, and 
brambles of every description have grown up in the cemetery, and the one marker 
found there was down flat on the ground.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The marker reads:


Memory of
Bettie G.
Wife of J.J. Spencer
Born December 25, 1837
Died November 16, 1867
Mother
Mother Dear we miss you since to Heaven you have gone, you
prayed God bless your children, and bring them to the throne,
We know that you are happy, and God answers prayers, We mourn
our loss Dear Mother and will try and meet you there.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:
Courtney Foster, Guinea Mills, Virginia, present renter of the Guthria farm.

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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