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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Heath graveyard:
                  1937 Mar. 19
                  Research made by Elizabeth McCraw

Cemetery Location:  5.6 miles southwest of Toga P.O. on Route 24; thence .2 mile 
                    west off Route #24 in a body of pines.
                    Buckingham County



OWNERS:

Heath family first.  Burruss Land and Lumber Co., present owner. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

Close to the Appomattox line, back in the remains of a body of pines, is a 
family burying ground, a bit different from the usual country graveyards.  The 
Heaths owned this acre and the surrounding territory years ago, but all signs of 
the house are gone and the land is now owned by the Burruss Land and Lumber 
Company.  The burying ground is neglected and is a tangled mass of undergrowth.  
The graves are covered with laps and limbs where the lumbermen have worked with 
ax and saw.  The tombstones have fallen, some are broken and others have been 
destroyed.  The markers are all of large, flat rocks and the names or initials 
are cut on the rocks with a chisel or some other crude instrument.  A number of 
the grave markers are intact and save for the devastating hand in industry the 
old burying ground with its home made headstones, remains a mute testimony of 
the Heath family.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inscriptions of tombstones:


M.J.H.
Dc. Sept. 13, 1839


A.H.
Dc. April 20, 1863


H. Heath
Died Mar. 28, 1908


M.M.
1807


L.A.H.
Dc. Oct. 27, 1905


W.J.H.
Died July 9, 1913


C.R.H.
Died July 13, 1888


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:
Mr. E.L. McCraw, Andersonville, Virginia
Mr. Frank Goin, Andersonville, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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