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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Frank McGraw graveyard:
                  1937 Feb. 3
                  Research made by Elizabeth McCraw

Cemetery Location:  .5 mile north of Andersonville on Route #638; thence .5 mile 
                    west in body of pine woods.
                    Buckingham County



OWNERS:

Now owned by the heirs of Richard Morgan. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

The McCraw burying ground at “Elysian Grove”, a pre-Revolutionary estate, now 
owned by the heirs of Richard Morgan, is back of the house in a dense body of 
pines.  There are eight or ten graves here, sunken and neglected.  Tho the grave 
is not marked, the one of Frank McCraw, pioneer settler of that name in 
Buckingham and teacher of Peter Francisco, is here.  A tree as large as a man’s 
body is growing in the center of this grave.  Only one marker could be found; 
that of a Confederate soldier who died of fever while with Jackson on his “March 
to Romney”.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inscription on tombstone:


In Memory of
R.M. McCraw
Born in Buckingham Co., Va.
Nov. 14, 1841
Died Jan. 15, 1862



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscription

Visit by worker.

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