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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Hanes cemetery:
                  1938 Jan. 6
                  Research made by Rosa G. Williams

Cemetery Location:  1 mile northwest of Hanes Chapel, Virginia on Route #617; 
                    thence .1 mile right on private road leading to the cemetery.
                    Buckingham County



OWNERS:

Cemetery rites reserved by the Hanes family and their descendants.

DESCRIPTION:

There are many graves but only two have markers that are marked, these are old 
flat stones and are very large.  A good many of the Hanes family are buried 
there but there are no markers to show just where the Hanes are buried.

William Wesley Clarks was a student at Humanity Hall Academy, a school conducted 
by Elijah Garland Hanes.  He died while in school and was buried in the old 
Hanes Cemetery.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Sacred to the memory of
William Wesley Clarke
Son of George W. Clarke of Madison County
Born September 4, 1832
Died June 19, 1853
21 years old


Sacred to the memory of
Elizabeth Hale
Wife of Ambrose Ford
and daughter of William and Jane Holman
Born August 2, 1814
Married February 16, 1835
Died October 16, 1841
Faithful in the Holy relations of wife, child and mother
True to her saviour and herself.
She fulfilled short mission and died in the assurance of hope of the 
resurrection unto life.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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