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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Morris graveyard:
                  1937 Feb. 5
                  Research made by Elizabeth McCraw

Cemetery Location:  1.25 miles east of Curdsville, Virginia, on Route #633,
                    thence north 1.5 miles on Fitzpatrick Road, thence east 1 
                    mile on private road.
                    Buckingham County



OWNERS:

L. A. Fitzpatrick, the present owner. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

All of the tombstones anti-date 1845.  The headstones are all the upright kind, 
and are made of hewed rock, very beautifully and plainly inscribed.  They are 
all moss grown and weathered.  The plot of ground is a tangled mass of 
honeysuckle, briers and periwinkle.  There are no large trees here.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

One of the most interesting, historically, and the second largest family burying 
ground with marked graves found in Buckingham, is the one of the old Nathaniel 
Morris estate now owned by L.A. Fitzpatrick.

A copy of the tombstone inscriptions follow:


Sacred to the Memory of
Nath. Morris
Who died Jan. 21, 1813
Aged 68 years


Sacred to the Memory of
Ann B. Morris
Who died June 26, 1843
Aged 46 years


Sacred to the Memory of
Mary A. Morris
Who died July 30, 1821
In the 2nd Year of her age


Sacred to the Memory of
Annie Morris
Who died Jan. 21, 1833
Aged 78 years


Ellen W. Whitworth
Born Dec. 7, 1841
Died Oct. 9, 1842


H.G. Whitworth
Born March 8, 1844
Died June 4, 1845

The Whitworth children are the third or fourth generation of the Morris family.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions



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