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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Perkins graveyard:
                  1937 Oct. 19
                  Research made by Elizabeth McCraw

Cemetery Location:  Go west from Buckingham Court House, Virginia 1.5 miles on 
                    Route #60; thence north (right) on Route #56 for 2.6 miles; 
                    thence west (left) on private road through woods .6 mile.  
                    Graveyard about 300 yards from R.A. Hall’s house.
                    Buckingham County


DATE:

1803, date of marker.

OWNERS:

Owned by R.A. Hall and descendants, 1803 to present date. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

Under two very large oak trees a short distance from the home of R.A. Hall is 
the Perkin’s graveyard.  How many graves were here, if any, other than the grave 
of John W. Perkins, is not known.  The grave of John W. Perkins is covered with 
the most unusual looking memorial.  The rock vault over the grave is ten feet 
long, seven feet wide and five feet high.  It is built of various sized hard 
black rocks, some large and some small, these are cemented together with some 
kind of black mortar which seems to be as perfect as when put here.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Tombstone inscription:

This a Memorial to
John W. Perkins
Born May 31, 1752
Died March 17, 1803
Aged 50 years 9 months and 17 days

This Memorial to John W. Perkins was erected by his fellow Masons on the land 
granted his father William Perkins by James II, in 1746.  As John W. Perkins 
lived and died an old bachelor, his estate reverted to his sister, Mrs. Sally 
Perkins Moseley, whose descendants “yet own the land”.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:
R.A. Hall, Buckingham, Virginia, descendant of William Perkins

Tombstone Inscription

Visit by worker.

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