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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Worsham graveyard:
                  1936 Sept. 3
                  Research made by Craig Romaine

Cemetery Location:  At Bermuda Hundred, about two tenth of mile from Post Office
                    Chesterfield County


DATE:

1775

OWNERS:

Edward Worsham and heirs.

DESCRIPTION:

This burying ground of the Worsham family has been sadly neglected, and a great 
amount of dirt had to be removed from the tombstones before the inscriptions 
could be deciphered.  However, the inscriptions were very legible and the stones 
in such a remarkable state of preservation that it is difficult to believe that 
some antedate by several years the Revolutionary War.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Time, it is generally conceded, is the arch-enemy of beauty, of aspirations, and 
of noble enterprise.  It is an invulnerable foe over which none may truthfully 
claim victory.   And because of its invulnerability, some have deemed it less 
painful to submit rather than to resist it.

The little settlement known as Bermuda Hundred is a very real example of such 
submission.  Or it may be, and this is perhaps more likely, that it was among 
the many that fought and lost.

Whichever way it was, (and one is almost compelled to believe the latter is 
true, for such people as the early settlers submitted to nothing save death 
itself) the fact remains that the town of Bermuda Hundred has almost reached the 
last milestone on the descending road to oblivion.

And the most piteous fact al all is, it does not warrant such neglect.  Younger 
than Jamestown only by six years, Bermuda Hundred played a very important part 
in the founding and the developing of a new and opulent country.

It is said that the first free landholders in America were in Bermuda Hundred, 
and the first scientific agricultural experiment station was in the Bermuda 
District.

But all of these seem to have been forgotten – put away in the past.  And
perhaps the most pathetic is the lonely little graveyard marked only by quaint 
old slabs which lie unheeded in a cow pasture on the banks of the James River.


In Memory of
Edward Worsham
Who was born 10th Jany. 1710
and departed this life 14th Feby. 1775


In Memory of
John
Son of Edward & Elizb. Worsham
He was born 25th Decr. 1774
and departed this life 30th Novr. 1795


In Memory of
Michal
Daughter of Edward & Elizabeth Worsham
She was born 24th Jany. 1771
and departed this life 15th Septr. 1795


In Memory of
Sarah
Wife of Archibald Baugh
Daughter of Edward & Elizabeth Worsham
She was born 25th Feby. 1773
and departed this life 10th October 1795


Sacred to the memory of
Margaret J.
Consort of Chastain Clarke
of Richmond Va.
And Daughter of Archd. Baugh Decd.
Who died Sept. 24th 1836
In the 25th year of her age


In Memory of
Edward
Son of Edward & Elizabeth Worsham
He was born 29th June 176_
and departed this life Octr. 31st 1792


E.W.
1776




SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Court Records, Chesterfield County, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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