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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Shepard graveyard:
                  1937 Feb. 17
                  Research made by Elizabeth McCraw

Cemetery Location:  6.3 miles east of Dillwyn, Virginia, on Route #60, thence 1 
                    mile south on Route #628, thence .5 mile on private road.
                    Buckingham County



DATE:

1865.  The oldest grave.

DESCRIPTION:

The family burying ground of the Burwell Shepard family at the ancestral home 
“Pine Forest” is on the brow of a hill about 500 yards from the house.  There 
are a number of large pine trees shading the plot, and small boxwood and other 
evergreen shrubs are here and there among the graves.  While the ground is 
covered with periwinkle, every thing is clean and well kept.  A splendid rock 
wall encloses the graves.  An expensive monument stands in the center of the 
yard as a memorial to the members of the family buried here.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

A copy of the tombstones follow:


In Memory of
Burwell Shepard
Born Aug. 3, 1804
Died Oct. 4, 1865


Elizabeth Guthrie Shepard
Born June 9, 1813
Died July 23, 1879


In Memory of
Burwell Shepard and Elizabeth Guthrie Shepard his wife
And their children.
T.R.S.
P.H.S.
F.L.S.
P.V.S.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions



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