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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Branch Church Cemetery:
                  1936 Oct. 30
                  Research made by Craig Romaine

Cemetery Location:  9 miles north of Chesterfield Court House, on Route #37
                    Chesterfield County


DATE:

1834

OWNERS:

Branch Church

DESCRIPTION:

There are many graves and many tombstones in the Branch Church Cemetery.  Here 
for many years persons from nearby farms and homes have been buried.

The graves here are shaded by very large oaks which seem to be an integral part 
of many of the older church cemeteries, while ornamental shrubs are spaced 
irregularly about many of the plots.

Here are tombstones of various sizes, some of which stand only a few inches 
above the ground, while others range from two to eight feet in height.  All of 
these stones are well preserved and the epitaphs are highly legible.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Lying just a few feet from the old brick church known as Branch’s Church, it is 
almost within sight of the historic “British Camp”, the headquarters of 
Cornwallis during the Revolutionary War.


At Rest
Joseph T. Leonard
Sept. 5, 1863
July 24, 1926


William E. Leonard
Nov. 18, 1868


Lillie Elizabeth Hey
Wife of Frank R. H. Huth
Daughter of H.W. & E.H. Hey
June 15, 1859
Oct. 1, 1925


William Worrell
Feb. 16, 1841
Dec. 30, 1894
Rest in Peace


Octavia Gills
Wife of Dabney Gills
Born June 24, 1835
Died March 25, 1910
At Rest


G. Dabney Gills
Born Sept. 14, 1834
Died Nov. 19, 1892
At Rest


Mother * Father
William A. Eastman
1834 – 1887
His Wife
Mary E. Sterne
1840 – 1876


Mary J. Scott
Wife of Robert Scott
Born May 12, 1861
Died Oct. 31, 1916
Asleep in Jesus


Robert D. Ross
Aug. 25, 1859
Jan. 23, 1934
P.O.S. of A. No. 32


Henry W. Hey
Born in  England
Dec. 18, 1825
Died Jan. 22, 1893
-HEY-


At Rest
Mary A. Hill
Wife of W.A. Hill
Jan. 22, 1852
Jan. 15, 1926


At Rest
William Alonzo Hill
Nov. 11, 1844
July 20 (or 30), 1927


In Memory of
Harvie
Son of J.T. & F.M. Williams
Died Jan. 25, 1897
Aug. 28.


Sacred to the memory of
Frances N.
wife of Jos. T. Williams
Born April 10, 1833
Died March 6, 1896


In Memory of Father
Joseph Thomas Williams
Born July 20, 1832
Died Aug. 4, 1909


Frances Lee Williams
March 15, 1864
Nov. 13, 1929
In thy presence is Fulness of Joy


Mother
Lydia A. Hanna
Oct. 14, 1823
May 17, 1893


Father
Isaac Hanna
Nov. 23, 1818
Jan. 17, 1893




SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Court Records, Chesterfield County, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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