CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Bethlehem Cemetery:
                  1937 Jan. 12
                  Research made by Craig Romaine

Cemetery Location:  6 miles west of Richmond, Virginia on Route #60, thence 
                    north .1 mile on private road.
                    Chesterfield County


DATE:

1836

OWNERS:

Bethlehem Baptist Church

DESCRIPTION:

This small cemetery lies a short distance to the read of the old Bethlehem 
Baptist Church, on a hill overlooking the Midlothian turnpike and surrounding 
territory.

It borders a forest and is situated among very old oaks.  The tombstones are 
small upright granite slabs and are scattered irregularly.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Within this small cemetery are buried three Confederate soldiers, all of whom 
were in Troop B. 4th Virginia Cavalry – John B. Baugh, 2nd Lieutenant, Edward J. 
Baugh, and David Forloine, whose tombstone bears only the date of his birth and 
death, and who enlisted in Richmond in March 1862.

A few feet in front of the cemetery, and facing the highway, stands the old 
Bethlehem church, one of the early Baptist churches in Chesterfield County.

Inscriptions on the tombstones are as follows:


David Forloine
May 23, 1841
May 4, 1921


Melissie E. Forloine
Dec. 12, 1843
April 17, 1913
They died as they lived a – Christian


Mary S. Clifford
April 2, 1841
July 12, 1907
A tender Mother and a faithful friend.


William A. Brown
June 23, 1848
Sept. 19, 1929
and
Gamelia A. Brown
June 1, 1845
Dec. 3, 1922
Dying is But Going Home


Edward J. Baugh
TR. B.
4 Va. Cav.
C.S.A.


Mary I. Baugh
1853 – 1916


2 Lt.
John B. Baugh
TR. B.
4 Va. Cav.
C.S.A.


Ann S. Baugh
1838 – 1902


Claudius Marshall Cook
Aug. 1, 1867
Jan. 1, 1929
Beyond the smiling and the weeping


Pattie F. Cook
1836 - 1918



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Court Records, Chesterfield County, Virginia

Muster Roll of Co. B. 4th Va. Cavalry, located at Clerk’s office Chesterfield 
Court House.

Tombstone Inscriptions

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