CULPEPER:  CEMETERY RECORDS – WHEATLEY CEMETERY

Contributed by:  Joan Renfrow

NOTICE:  I have no relationship or further information in regards to this 
family.  

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Wheatley cemetery:
                  1937 May 21
                  Research made by J.P. Thompson

Cemetery Location:  4 miles northwest of Rixeyville, Virginia on Route #640; 
                    thence southwest on Route #627 .5 mile; thence south on 
                    private road .5 mile to house; thence ¼ mile east of house 
                    to graveyard.
                    Culpeper County




This cemetery is on a knoll in a grove of trees.  There are vines of all kinds 
over the graves making them hard to find.  Some of the graves are unmarked and 
some of them are recent graves.

The inscriptions on the old stones are as follows:


Ann E. Hitt
Born Sept. 25, 1833
Died July 15, 1858


John H. Wheatley
Born Sept. ___
Died July ___


To the memory of
Thornton Wheatley
Born Nov. 5, 1793
Died May 3, 1852


William H. Hitt
Jany. 26, 1830
Dec. 11, 1850


In memory of
Sarah E. Wheatley
Born Sept. 20, 1831
Died June 6, 1852