CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Warebottom Spring Graves
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Graves near Warebottom Spring:
                  1936 Mar. 6
                  Research made by Craig Romaine

Cemetery Location:  1. 5 miles from Chester, Va., 200 ft south of Rt #37
                    2. 5 miles from Chester, Va., 400 ft north of Rt #37
                    Chesterfield County


DATE:

1770

OWNERS:

(blank)

DESCRIPTION:

None.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

1.  Just to the south of the Hopewell highway lies an old road known to a few of 
the natives of the neighborhood and referred to in the early records as the 
Warebottom Road.  This road is a short distance from Parker’s Battery and was 
used extensively in both the Revolutionary War and the War Between the States.  
This road is now seldom used and is almost completely covered with grass and 
weeds.

Nearby is Warebottom Spring and Warebottom Church and it is believed that these 
were named for the Rev. Jacob Ware who died in 1709 and who was once minister of 
Henrico Parish, which embraced Chesterfield County.  About two hundred feet from 
Warebottom Road and five miles from Chester Post Office are the graves of two 
men who came to this country from England.  These graves are in a very remote 
section of a burnt-over wood, among a dense growth of briars and underbrush.

Over these graves lie two stone slabs six feet eight inches in length and three 
feet wide, bearing the following inscriptions.


William Ashburn 
of Liverpool
Who trader to this Province for many years
Died the 25th Day of October, 1773
Aged 43 Years and was buried beneath this Stone


____ Body of
_____khill
late of the Ship John
Belonging to Liverpool
Who departed this life the 3rd
of June 1779 (?)
Aged 36 Years


2.  About three tenths of a mile north of the Hopewell highway and about five 
miles from Chester Post Office is the Old Warebottom Spring.  This spring was 
used in the Revolutionary War and the War Between the States.  Here, it is said, 
a company of British soldiers going to Bermuda Hundred, stopped to water their 
horses.  The spring is in a deep ravine, among old pines and oaks.  A circular 
brick wall nine feet in diameter encloses it.  The spring itself is about give 
feet deep.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Charles Bishop

Court Records, Chesterfield County, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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