CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Archer Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Archer graveyard:
                  1936 Oct. 20
                  Research made by Craig Romaine

Cemetery Location:  2 miles north of Petersburg, Virginia, .9 mile east on 
                    Conduit Road.
                    Chesterfield County


DATE:

1774

OWNERS:

Archer family.

DESCRIPTION:

“Mount Pleasant”, the original seat of the Archer family in Chesterfield County, 
lies secluded now among old trees that sway and groan in the wind sweeping up 
from the Appomattox River, pining for the once happy days that have long ago 
forsaken the place.

Abandoned and left a helpless victim of time and neglect, the old house is 
rapidly falling away, and unless immediate steps are taken to preserve it, which 
is doubtful, it will soon become a thing of the past.

But even farther along the road to oblivion is the graveyard which lies in the 
woods, a short distance from the house.

Here are several tombstones, about three feet in height.  All of these stones 
are hidden in very heavy growth of honeysuckle through which one must wade knee-
deep to reach them.

Some of these stones have fallen and are buried beneath this mass of vines and 
weeds so that they are hidden entirely from view and can be trace located only 
by tracing the impressions made by the graves.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The epitaphs, given below, were illegible until charcoal was placed on the 
surface of the stones.


Sacred to the memory of
Willieanna Archer
Born 28th of June 1820
Died 22nd of July 1820


Sacred to the memory of
Willieanna Archer
Born 1st of Jany. 1818
Died 14th of June, 1820
Aged 2 yrs. 3 Mo. & 10 days


Sacred to the memory of
Unity Claiborne
Consort of William Archer
Born January 26, 1774
Died January 28, 1829
Aged 55 years & 2 days
This testimonial of love is caused to be
erected by her Son Cadmus Archer


Sacred to the memory of
Harriet B. Robertson
Consort of John A. Robertson
of Amelia
Born 28th of March 1807
Died 28th of Feby. 1826
Aged 18 years, 11 months



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Court Records, Chesterfield County, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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