BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Mt. Zion Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Mt. Zion cemetery:
                  1937 Feb. 12
                  Research made by Garnett Agee Williams

Cemetery Location:  3.5 miles southeast of New Canton, Virginia on Route #670 
                    about 25 yards north of highway.
                    Buckingham County


DATE:

1815, date of oldest grave.

OWNERS:

(blank)

DESCRIPTION:

This is a very large cemetery and is well kept, but there are few early markers.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inscriptions on tombstones:


In Memory of our darling Sister Willie
Though gone yet not forgotten
S. William Dunkum
Born April 17th 1857
Died Jan. 6th, 1883
(This is a very large slate slab)


In memory of our dear
Annie C. Patterson
Born May 5th, 1817
Died Sept. 8th, 1899
(This is a large slate slab)


Little Bessie Ann Craig
Born April 1805
Died June 1815


In memory of Rev. W.H. Taylor
Born Aug. 4, 1811
Did Oct. 24, 1889
Prepare to meet thy God



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

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