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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Humanity Hall graveyard:
                  1937 Feb. 18
                  Research made by Elizabeth McCraw

Cemetery Location:  3.8 miles north of Dillwyn, Virginia, on Route #15, thence 3 
                    miles west on Route #617, thence north on private road 1 
                    mile.
                    Buckingham County


DATE:

1841.  Oldest grave marker.

OWNERS:

Fords, the original owners.
Col. E. G. Hanes
Hunting Club, the present owner. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

By the side of the road in what was once the garden is found two very 
interesting grave stones, which are large flat marble slabs.  This graveyard is 
unusual in that it is in an open field and clean of vines, undergrowth and even 
trees, which is not characteristic of old graveyards.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

On the slabs are the following inscriptions:


Sacred to the Memory of
William Wesley Clark
Son of George W. Clark of Madison Co., Va.
Born Sept. 4, 1832
Died June 19, 1853
The grave hath won thee, we shall hear the gush
Of music and the voices of the Young
And life will pass us in the mantling blush
And the dark tresses to the soft wind flung,
But thou no more with they sweet face shall
Come to meet us, Wesley
Scholastici H.H. Academy


Sacred to the Memory of
Elizabeth Hales
Wife of Ambrose Ford
And daughter of William and Jane Holman
born August 7, 1814
Died October 16, 1841
Married February 18, 1835
Faithful
In the holy relations of wife, child, mother,
True to her Savior and herself.
She fulfilled her short mission and died in the
Sure and certain hope of the resurrection unto life.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions



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