CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – “Matoax” Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Matoax graveyard:
                  1936 Feb. 21
                  Research made by Craig Romaine

Cemetery Location:  1 mile from Petersburg, Virginia, north of the Appomattox 
                    River.
                    Chesterfield County


DATE:

1775

OWNERS:

John Randolph Sr., father of John Randolph of Roanoke, lived at Matoax and died 
there in 1775.

DESCRIPTION:

To the east, on a rising ground, under some oaks, cedars and hollies, are three 
tombstones which are well preserved.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Matoax, not to be confused with the small village nearby known as Matoaca, is on 
the north side of the Appomattox river, above the falls, about 1 mile from 
Petersburg.  The name is taken from the Indian and private name of Pocahontas 
(Matoaca) which means “She plays with something”.

The Latin inscriptions on them are as follows:


Johannes Randolph, Armiger,
Ob. XXVIII Octo. 18
MDCCLXXV 1775
Aet XXXLV (85 ?)
Non ossibus?urua, nec meus
Virtutibus absit


I.H.S.
Francesae Tucker Blandae 
Conjugis
Sti Georgii Tucker
Quis desiderio ‘sit modus!
Obiit XVLLL Januarii
MDCCLXXXVIII 1788
Aet XXXVI 36


Martha Hall
Ob. IV. Non Mart.
1764
Quam sprevit Hymen, Pollux, Phoebusque
Coluere.




SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants, Rev. Phillip Slaughter and W.B. Cridlin.

Court Records, Chesterfield County, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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