CARROLL COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Paupers Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Webb home:
                  1937 Oct. 21
                  Research made by Florida E. Rickman

Cemetery Location:  3 miles west of Hillsville, Virginia on Route #58, 100 yards 
                    on side road.
                    Carroll County


DATE:

1842

OWNERS:

Valentine Leonard       1842
John P. Webb            1869
Thuray Webb             1909         

DESCRIPTION:

This house was a six room log house and has been made into an eight room frame 
building.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

This tract of land contained one hundred and thirteen and one-half acres, and 
was the land on which the poor house for Carroll County was located.

The paupers and negroes are buried here on this farm. 

The deed was made between James N. Lindsey, Carroll B. Jackson and Valentine 
Leonard, overseers of the poor of Carroll County, Virginia and John P. Webb.  
The amount paid for said farm was $335.00.  It is located on Little Snake Creek.

Valentine Leonard married Elizabeth Edwards, 1883.
John P. Webb married Thursey Alderman, 1863.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  Lula Howlett, Hillsville, Virginia

Carroll County Court Records, Clerk’s Office.

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