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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Elam-Markham graveyard:
                  1936 Nov. 19
                  Research made by Craig Romaine

Cemetery Location:  14 miles northeast of Chesterfield Courthouse; .4 mile north 
                    of Genite Road.
                    Chesterfield County


DATE:

1855

OWNERS:

Unknown.

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard lies on the Goode dairy farm, on the edge of a large cleared 
field, and bordering a forest.

Under a heavy mat of brown leaves are the grass and two of the tombstones have 
fallen and are hidden from view.

Nothing is known of the history of this graveyard except that it has been there 
“As long as anyone can remember”.  It is rapidly becoming engulfed by the 
encroaching forest, and but for the tombstones, two of which are buried deep 
beneath leaves and mold, it would already be forgotten.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The epitaphs, however, after soil was removed from the face of the tombstones, 
are still very legible.  These are as follows:


Little Clifford
Son of V.D. and Julia T. Markham
Died July 8th, 1855
Age 2 months & 13 days
In dreams I see him now,
and on his angel brow,
I see it written “Thou shalt
see me there.”


In Memory of
Lily Somervill Elam
Born November 4th, 1855
Died August 8th, 1856
A crown is on thy Angel brow,
Thine eye the King doth see,
Thy home is with Seraphs now,
We joy that thou art free.


Julia T. Markham
Wife of V.D. Markham
& daughter of William C. and Jane A. Elam
died Aug. 14th 1856
aged 20 years 7 months and 13 days
An affectionate child, a loving sister,
a devoted Wife, a fond Mother, ardent
Friend and pure Christian, faultless
in every relation she sustained in
life, though cut down in its morning
bloom and freshness.
Though brightness hath passed from the earth,
Yet a star is now born in the sky
And a soul hath gone home to the land of its birth
Where are pleasures and fullness of joy
And a new harp is strung and a new song is given
To the breeze that floats o’er the garden of Heaven.


In Memory of
Fanny C. Elam
Born Jany. 15th 1855
Died Jany. 10th 1858
She was the sunshine of our home,
An angel to us given;
Just when we learnt to love her most,
God called her back to Heaven.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Court Records, Chesterfield County, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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