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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, McKinney graveyard:
                  1937 May 4
                  Research made by Elizabeth McCraw

Cemetery Location:  4.6 miles west of Sheppards, Virginia, on Route #636, thence 
                    north 50 yards in a field.
                    Buckingham County


DATE:

1857.  The oldest grave marker.

OWNERS:

The McKinney family, 1857
Clint Jones, present owner of surrounding land. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

Located back of a tenant house on what was once the McKinney estate, just a 
short distance from the highway, are two graves.  This is a neglected spot, 
covered with periwinkle, and shaded by several trees.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

One grave is that of the wife of a former Governor of Virginia, P.W. McKinney of 
Buckingham County, and the other of his son.  The old McKinney home to which 
this graveyard belonged was burned some years ago and only a chimney remains of 
the home that reared an illustrous son of Buckingham.

On the tombstones are the following inscriptions:


Nannie Christian
wife of P.W. McKinney
Born February 5, 1833
Died November 5, 1857
She was faithful to her friends her family and her God.


Our Little Charlie
Charles Heath
Son of P.W. and Nannie C. McKinney
Born Sept. 29, 1857
Died Dec. 7, 1859



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:
Henry Chappell, Andersonville, Virginia, R.F.D., a life long friend of the 
McKinney family.  He cast his first vote at the age of 21 for McKinney for 
Governor of Virginia.

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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