BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – “Locust Dale” Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Locust Dale:
                  1937 Oct. 6
                  Research made by Elizabeth McCraw

Cemetery Location:  1.2 miles west of Penlan, Virginia, on Route #671.  Thence 
                    .2 mile north (right) on private road to house.
                    Buckingham County



OWNERS:

Peter Guerrant, court records destroyed by fire            1799
James Ramsey, court records destroyed by fire      May 16, 1799
V.R. Brooks, court records destroyed by fire  December 22, 1804
V.R. Brooks, Jr. court records destroyed by fire           1842
Now owned by the heirs of V.R. Brooks, Jr.
Miss Emma Brooks, present owner. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

There is an old graveyard on the place about half a mile from the house.  This 
is overgrown with vines and periwinkle.  Four or five graves are marked with 
slate slabs.  Some of these are so weathered that it is impossible to read the 
inscriptions.  Only three could be read which are as follows:


Reid Brooks
Died July 7, 1842


Erected to the Memory of
Catherine Brooks Nuckols
Died June 16, 1847
Departed this life in the 30th year of her age


Emeline Ayers Brooks
Died Nov. 26, 1922
In the 78 year of her age




SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:
Miss Emma Brooks, Diana Mills, Virginia, owner and granddaughter of V.R. Brooks, who bought the place in 1804.

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