BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Wood Cemetery
			----¤¤¤----

Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Edmund Wood grave:
                  1937 June 9
                  Research made by Elizabeth McCraw

Cemetery Location:  4.6 miles west of Sheppards, Virginia, on Route #636, thence 
                    south 1.3 miles on Route #609, thence west .6 mile through a 
                    field.
                    Buckingham County


DATE:

1783

OWNERS:

Edmund Wood, prior to 1783
Peter Hales, present owner. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

At the foot of Wood’s Mountain is a deserted neglected graveyard of several 
graves.  Only one grave is marked and this one with a soap stone slab about 6 
inches wide and 10 inches high.  This little slab is placed in front of a flat 
rock, the kind of rock usually seen as a marker for a grave.  It seems that all 
through the years people have taken care of this unusual tombstone, for it is 
necessary to take it up from its resting place beside the rock to read the name 
and date, and to this day it has always been put back in its resting place.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Wood’s Mountain was named after this family of Woods.

The tombstone inscription follows:

EDMd E
WOod
1783


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:
Peter Hales, Sheppards, Virginia, present owner. (1937)

Tombstone Inscription

Visit by worker.

___________________________________________________________________

	Copyright.  All rights reserved.
	http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm

	This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives 
	by:  Joan Renfrow

	NOTICE:  I have no relationship or further information in 
	regards to this family.
___________________________________________________________________