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

Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The William Word graveyard on Tall Oaks place:
                  1937 June 9
                  Research made by Elizabeth McCraw

Cemetery Location:  .5 mile south of Buckingham C.H., Virginia on Route #633; 
                    thence 300 yards east of public road in a grove of evergreen 
                    trees.
                    Buckingham County


DATE:

1862, date of oldest grave marker.

OWNERS:

William H. Word and heirs from 1862 to present day.

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is in the garden at the old Word place and is enclosed by large 
Boxwood trees, and dwarf box bushes, and also several cedar trees.  There are 
spring flowers here and a few rose bushes.  There are several unmarked graves.  
About the center of the plot is a four sided marble monument erected in memory 
of the members of the Word family buried here.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inscription on tombstone:

Our Beloved Ones

Father
William H. Word
Born Dec. 25, 1804
Died Nov. 25, 1885

Mother
Joanna B. Word
Born Aug. 3, 1813
Died June 17, 1896

Brother
Wiliam H. Word
Born Nov. 13, 1841
Died Nov. 12, 1862

AT REST


When the estate was sold to the Gilliams, the Word family reserved the 
graveyard.  The first date on the monument is 1862, though the older graves are 
not marked, they are certainly much older than this date.  William R. Word, who 
died in 1862, was a Confederate soldier and died in the Army.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:
Mrs. Ben Gilliam, present owner, Buckingham, Virginia (1937)

Tombstone Inscriptions

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.
___________________________________________________________________