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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Bellwood cemetery:
                  1936 Mar. 17
                  Research made by Craig Romaine

Cemetery Location:  5 miles from Chester, Virginia west of Route #1
                    Chesterfield County


DATE:

Approximately 1840

OWNERS:

Bellwood family.

DESCRIPTION:

At the rear of the house now owned by the Bellwood family is a small cemetery in 
an open meadow.  This cemetery is not enclosed, but had been well protected and 
preserved, although two of the tombstones have fallen.  This place is on the 
Richmond and Petersburg Turnpike, about five miles from the Chester Post Office.


HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The inscriptions are as follows:


Here Rest the remains of
Elizabeth
wife of Richard Gregory
Who departed this life
25, Nov. 1842
Aged 75 years
And I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me
write Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord
from henceforth; yea, saith the spirit that they 
may rest from their labors; and their works do
follow them.


Sacred to the memory of
Richard Gregory
who died Dec.r 1844
in the 88th year of his age
I have fought a good fight, I have finished
my course, I have kept the faith.
2 Tim IV 7
My record on high    Job XVI 19


Sacred to the memory of
George Cox
Born 19, March 1796
Died 15 June 1845
And 
to the memory of
Margaret G. Cox
Born 3 June 1796
ob. March 1843
Blessed and the dead which die in the Lord


Here Rest the remains of
Minerva Willson
who died Jan’y 24 1841
Aged 19 years
I know in whom I have believed and
am persuaded that He is able to
keep that which I have committed
unto him against that day


Richard T. Gregory
died 29th Dec. 1849
Aged 12 Mo. and 13 days.
Suffer little children and forbid them not, to
come unto me; for such is the kingdom of heaven.
XIX chap. Matthew
14th verse



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Court Records, Chesterfield County, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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