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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Violet Bank graveyard:
                  1936 July 22
                  Research made by Craig Romaine

Cemetery Location:  .2 mile north of Petersburg, Va. on Route #1; thence 1 mile 
                    east on Cameron Ave.; thence south 150 feet on Royal Oak 
                    Ave.; thence east 75 feet. (In Colonial Heights)
                    Chesterfield County


DATE:

1830

OWNERS:

Due to clause in an early deed, this graveyard remains a part of Violet Bank 
estate, but is set aside and cannot be included in the property.

DESCRIPTION:

Although it is protected by a stone wall, into which entrance is gained through 
an iron gate, this graveyard shows evidence of neglect.

Within the enclosure is a mass of vines and poison ivy that completely covers 
the ground and engulfs some of the tombstones.

Here are several graves, marked by granite slabs that originally lay over the 
graves, but have fallen out of place.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Jane Gray Haxall was first married to Thomas Shore, the builder and original 
owner of Violet Bank.  At his decease in 1800, the place passed to Mrs. Shore, 
who later married Henry Haxall.

Elizabeth Smith Shore, daughter of Thomas and Jane Gray Shore, later became the 
owner of Violet Bank, and married Dr. John Gilliam.


Here Are Deposited the Remains of
John Gilliam, M.D.
of Petersburg, Va.
Born April 9th A.D. 1790
Departed This Life August 15th A.D. 1843
In memory of the deceased
This Tomb
Is erected by his Devoted Wife.


Sacred to the Memory of
Mrs. Elizabeth S. Gilliam
Relict of John Gilliam, M.D.
And Daughter of Thomas Shore, Esq.
of Violet Bank, Chesterfield County
Born January 26th A.D. 1797
Departed this Life March 20th A.D. 1858


Here lies all that was mortal of
Mrs. Jane Gray Haxall
Daughter of Major Wall of Greensville,
Formerly widow of Thomas Shore, Esq.
of Violet Bank,
Who departed this Life
May 22nd in the year of our Lord 1831
in the Sixty Third year of her age.
This Stone is erected as a small testimony
of the unbounded affection of her Daughters


Here Lies the body of
Joseph
Infant son of W. & M.L. Shippen
Who died 14th May 1830


William McIlwaine Wallace
Eldest Son of
Dr. J.M. Wallace of Philadelphia
born August 28, 1848
Died January 20, 1854




SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Mrs. Alice V. D. Pierrepont, present owner of Violet Bank. (1936)

Court Records, Chesterfield County, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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