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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Jackson graveyard:
                  1936 Oct. 29
                  Research made by Craig Romaine

Cemetery Location:  6 miles southwest of Chesterfield Courthouse, .5 mile 
                    southwest Woodpecker Road.
                    Chesterfield County


DATE:

1818

OWNERS:

Jackson, Clayton and Godsey families.

DESCRIPTION:

This old graveyard in which are buried members of the Jackson, Clayton, and 
Godsey families, is secluded deep in a forest and almost lost now, even from 
those who, in past years, were familiar with its location.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

This tract of land, on which stands an old abandoned house, has been owned by 
the Clayton, Godsey and Jackson families, and each of these families has used 
this graveyard, so that while it was originally intended for a private burying 
ground, it now contains the graves of several different families.  However, no 
one has been buried here for a number of years, and it is almost forgotten.  The 
epitaphs are as follows:


Hiram H. Godsey
Born Apr. 9, 1818
Died June 29, 1861
The spirit is not dear
Though low the body lies,
But freed from pain and sorrow fled
To swell beyond the skies.


Lucy A. Godsey
Born Sept. 27, 1822
Died Feb. 23, 1869
Death is but a sleep
Beneath a Savior’s care,
And he will surely, safely keep
The body resting there.


Angeline S.
Daughter of William A. Frances Clayton
Departed this life July 12, 1857
Aged 20 years. 9 mos. & 1 day.
Upon this spot you come and look,
She’s silent in the grave,
Her delight was in the blessed Book
Which opens but to save.


Norman W. Godsey
Born July 14, 1858
Died Sept. 29, 1879
We shall meet in the land 
Where spring is eternal,
Where darkness never cometh,
Nor sorrow nor pain,
Where the flowers ne’er fade
In that clime ever vernal
We shall meet and our parting
be never again.
Bunnie



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Court Records, Chesterfield County, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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