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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Brittan cemetery:
                  1937 Jan. 15
                  Research made by Craig Romaine

Cemetery Location:  5 miles north of Chesterfield, Virginia courthouse on Route 
                    #37; 2 miles east of Route #37 on Route #638; 150 yards on 
                    Route #638.
                    Chesterfield County


DATE:

1840 – date of oldest grave

OWNERS:

Samuel Brittan

DESCRIPTION:

The Brittan graveyard is very small, consisting only of two graves – those of a 
young wife and mother and her three year old daughter.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The grave of the child, Eliza E. Brittan, is older only by one month, and it is 
thought the grief which the mother felt in the loss of her only child resulted 
in her death.

Both of these graves lie a short distance in front and within sight of the house 
which was once owned and occupied by Samuel Brittan, a flour inspector, in 
Richmond during the War Between the States.

The older grave is marked by an upright granite slab, while the other is 
enclosed in a brick tomb approximately three feet in height on top of which 
rests the three by six foot tombstone.

Inscriptions from these are as follows:


Sacred To the memory of
Louisa P. Brittan
Wife of Sam’l Brittan
and daughter of Stephen Hobbs
Who died Sept. 8th 1840 in
the 23rd year of her age
She was mild and engaging
Kind generous and affectionate
And above all truely pious.


Eliza E.
only child of Sam’l and Louisa P. Brittan
Died Aug. 4th 1840
in the 3rd year of her age
The sweet little bud without thorn
will bloom in Heaven



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Court Records, Chesterfield County, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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