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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Saunders graveyard:
                  1937 Feb. 10
                  Research made by Elizabeth McCraw

Cemetery Location:  4 miles west of Washington’s Service Station at the 
                    intersection of  Route #15 and Route #600 on Route #600, 
                    thence .4 mile on private road.
                    Buckingham County


DATE:

1839.  The oldest grave marked.

OWNERS:

Dr. Saunders, the original owner.  1840
Mrs. Hubbard, the present owner. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

The old family graveyard is on a hill above the Cat Tail Creek, the place is a 
very wilderness of vines, briers and underbrush.  There are a number of graves 
here with only smooth black rocks showing the location of each.  Near the center 
of the place is a large Obelisk monument to the family.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

About 1840 a Doctor Saunders from Maryland moved into the Cat Tail Creek 
community and with his family lived and died there.  Only daughter remains, a 
Mrs. Hubbard, who is about eight five years old. (1937)

The tombstone inscription follows:


Beneath this monument repose the remains of Francis,
the son of Walter Saunders who was born on the
10th of Sept. 1839 and died on the 1st of Jan. 1842.
To the Memory of
Mrs. Mary Ragland Saunders
Who was born on the 24th of June 1774 and died on the
9th of Jan. 1839.
This monument erected by her affectionate son
Walter Gwynn Saunders.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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