CAROLINE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Boutwell and Smith Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Boutwell and Smith graveyard:
                  1937 Mar. 22
                  Research made by Selma Farmer

Cemetery Location:  3.1 miles southeast of Port Royal, Virginia, on  Route #17, 
                    thence .8 mile north of Route #17, on private road.
                    Caroline County


DATE:

The first person to be buried here was William Boutwell, who died July 7, 1803

OWNERS:

This graveyard has always been the property of the Boutwells and Smiths and is 
still kept by descendants of those families.

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is located in a grove of trees and has an iron fence around it.  
It is a very difficult place to get to as the road has not been well kept and 
has been allowed to become partly overgrown with young trees.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The following are some inscriptions taken from the tombs:

William Boutwell
Died July 7, 1803
His Wife,
Sebrina Hawkins Boutwell
Children:
John Thomas
Livingston
William Hawkins
Sarah
Mary and
Elizabeth Mosley Boutwell


Birkenhead Hawkins Boutwell
June 9, 1777 – Sept. 19, 1833
His Wife
Catherine Harrison Smith Boutwell
June 12, 1787 – Feb. 15, 1873
Children:
William Smith Boutwell, Born Nov. 13, 1813
Birkenhead Hawkins Boutwell, July 9, 1819-Dec. 10, 1863
Joseph Walter Boutwell, Born April 10, 1821
Martha Smith Boutwell, Smith, June 19, 1825-Feb. 3, 1903

An old record book was taken from Caroline to Alexandria, which had been used 
for records of the Surveyor’s Office of Caroline County.  The 39th survey 
recorded here is for William Boutwell for eighteen acres on December 31, 1759.

Birkenhead Hawkins Boutwell, mentioned above, was a descendant of the original 
Boutwell settler who came to America in the very beginning of the eighteenth 
century.  He married Catherine Harrison Smith, daughter of William Smith of 
Revolutionary fame, granddaughter of Captain Joseph Smith and great-
granddaughter of Sir William Sidney Smith of England.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  Miss Lou Acree, Supply, Virginia, a very old lady who has known 
             this family for many years.


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