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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Presbyterian cemetery:
                  1937 May 24
                  Research made by Rosa G. Williams

Cemetery Location:  .8 mile south of James River Bridge on Route #15; thence .2 
                    mile east on Route #668; thence .3 mile northeast on Route 
                    #670, church on north side of highway.
                    Buckingham County


DATE:

1855, date of oldest grave marker.

OWNERS:

Property has been owned by the Presbyterians of that section for 100 years 
(1937), no records before that date, as all records destroyed by fire.

DESCRIPTION:

This is a very large cemetery, not very well kept.  A few individuals have kept 
their sections in good condition.  There is no fence around this cemetery.  
There are a good many graves but only two have early dates on them, altho there 
are lots of graves there of people that were buried prior to 1860.  A good many 
very large oak, pine, and cedar trees still stand in this old cemetery.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


Inscriptions on tombstones:


James L. H. Gillispie
Born Nov. 7th 1828
Died July 16th 1862
In full hope of the Gospel


Sarah Francis
Daughter of  E.C. and J.M. Bumpass
Born March 14, 1848
Died July 5th, 1855



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:
Mrs. Baker Clark, old resident, New Canton, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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