CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Bermuda Hundred Cemetery #2
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Bermuda Hundred graveyard:
                  1936 Aug. 4
                  Research made by Craig Romaine

Cemetery Location:  200 feet from Bermuda Hundred Post Office, Virginia
                    Chesterfield County


DATE:

1839

OWNERS:

Unknown.

DESCRIPTION:

Here are several graves, marked with tombstones, two of which antedate by more 
(than) two decades the War Between the States.  These graves are overgrown with 
vegetation, and part of the inscription on one of the stones is hidden beneath 
several inches of ground.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The house which stands 100 feet or more from the graves, is believed to be the 
place where Gen. Butler was “bottled up”.  The inscriptions of the tombstones 
are as follows:


Sacred to the Memory of
John Henry Joseph Letthon
A native of Belgium France,
Who for nine years was a
Steward on Ship Ganges,
Who was drowned 17 September, 1839


Rosalia Ann
Daughter of Tho. & Rosalia Ann Skinner
Born Oct,. 13, 1843
Died Sept. 18, 1846
But though this little one is gone
Thus sudden from our fond embrace,
Yet in the resurrection morn
We’ll see and know its lovely face.
To such there is no sting in death,
Then why should we anguish weep?






SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Court Records, Chesterfield County, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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