CAROLINE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – DeJarnette Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, De Jarnette burying ground:
                  1937 June 4
                  Research made by Selma Farmer

Cemetery Location:  6.2 miles south from Bowling Green on Route #2, thence .1 
                    mile east across a field, in a clump of trees.
                    Caroline County


DATE:

1841

OWNERS:

The DeJarnettes

DESCRIPTION:


Following are inscriptions taken from stones found here:


Lelia Hawes DeJarnette
Born Dec. 9, 1853
Died May 28, 1858


In Memory of
Daniel
Son of Joseph and Mary Hampton DeJarnette
Born Oct. 9, 1783
Died Sept. 20, 1850


Also the following of the Tyler family:


In Memory of 
Janet G. Tyler
wife of George Tyler
and daughter of Daniel and Huldah DeJarnette
who was born Dec. 26, 1820
and Died Jan. 6, 1841


In Memory of Eliza H. Tyler
Wife of George Tyler and
only daughter of Gen. James and Eleanor Hoge
who was born Dec. 11, 1815 and
died Aug. 11, 1846
For some years a member of the Presbyterian Church
and we hope she had washed her robe and made it
white in the blood of the Lord


Julia Virginia Tyler
Wife of George Tyler
Daughter of Benjamin E. Magruder
Born Oct. 19, 1837
Died Feb. 4, 1873
I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever


The children:


Mary Jane
Daughter of George and J.T.C. Tyler
Born Dec. 25th, 1847
Died Jan. 14, 18__


Elizabeth
A daughter of George and Jane V. Tyler
Born Aug. 7, 1853
Died Nov. 29, 1854


HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Daniel DeJarnette was one of the most highly cultured men of his time.  He was a 
scholar of the first rank, and was prominent in political life.  He served in 
the House of Delegates and was afterward elected as an anti-Administration 
Democrat to the Thirty-sixth Congress.  He was re-elected to the Thirty=seventh 
Congress of the United States but declined to take his seat and was soon 
thereafter elected to represent Virginia in the Confederate States Congress.  He 
was re-elected a member of the Confederate Congress and served.

In this graveyard there are also tombs to show that the body of George Tyler and 
bodies of his three wives are buried here.

George Tyler was a representative of Caroline in the State Legislature, both 
before and during the War Between the States.  Mr. A.B. Chandler, in his history 
of Antioch Church of Bowling Green, which appeared in the Chesapeake Christian 
(Richmond, Va.) of June 15, 1920, says: “Brother George Tyler was a prince among 
men.  Of all of our brotherhood, during these fifty-two years, I think I am not 
departing from the truth when I say he was the most cultured of them all.  His 
field of vision was very large, his erudition profound and his judgements 
liberal and charitable.  Learned as he was he could discuss the Bible or the 
tariff with equal lucidity and hold his end of the discussion in either.  He was 
a Chesterfieldian in manners and gave you always a cordial grasp of the hand, 
while his heart overflowed with love for all men”.

Following is the inscription taken from his grave:


George Tyler
Dec. 15, 1817
Nov. 11, 1889
Asleep in Jesus
In loving remembrance by his son,
J. Hoge Tyler


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Personal Research

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