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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Salem cemetery:
                  1936 Sept. 30
                  Research made by Craig Romaine

Cemetery Location:  1 mile from Chesterfield Courthouse, on Centralia Road.
                    Chesterfield County


DATE:

Earliest date, 1827.

OWNERS:

Salem Church Congregation.

DESCRIPTION:

Salem cemetery is typical of many of those found on old church grounds.  It is 
densely shaded by massive oaks, and many of the graves lie deep beneath crisp 
brown leaves.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

This cemetery is situated a short distance east of the old Salem Church which 
was erected in 1797 and consecrated in 1802 by the Rev. Eleazer Clay.  The 
cemetery itself is not so old as the church.  However, the names of some of the 
county’s oldest families appear on several of the tombstones.

The inscriptions are as follows:


Wyndham D. Gregory
Aug. 5, 1846
Aug. 19, 1890
Rest


J. Willie Lee Cheatham
Born March 21, 1860
Died Aug. 7, 1885


Father
Thomas J. Cheatham, M.D.
Feb. 24, 1828
July 13, 1901


Mother
Mary Frances Gregory
Wife of Thos. J. Cheatham, M.D.
Mar. 19, 1833
Feb. 19, 1901


Parthenia Ann Chalkley
Wife of William Burton Chalkley
Jan. 29, 1841
Aug. 22, 1921


Leonidas Wells
Born Oct. 1, 1827
Died Sept. 9, 1897


Virginia Alice Wells
Born May 7, 1847
Died Oct. 8, 1904
Asleep in Jesus


Melvin P. Franklin
Born July 13, 1842
Died May 21, 1916


Louisa R. Fuqua
Born Dec. 7, 1846
Died July 27, 1909


Edwin J. Sawyer
Born Jun. 25, 1861
Died Aug. 29, 1918


Caroline W. Sawyer
Born Feb. 22, 1838
Died Nov. 14, 1918


John I.  Ellison, Sr.
June 13, 1821
Sept. 4, 1915
His Wife
Caroline Sutton
Nov. 4, 1823
May 2, 1902


At Rest
William H. Orgutt
Jan. 14, 1844
June 10, 1913


At Rest
John E. Orgutt
April 1, 1854
June 15, 1821


At Rest
May L. Brott
June 27, 1863
Aug. 20, 1921


Henry T. Hopkins
Co. B.
12 N.Y. Cav.
(no date, but old stone)


Emily Robertson
1843 – 1918
and
D.C. Robertson
1847 - 1923



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Court Records, Chesterfield County, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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