CUMBERLAND COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Colwell Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Colwell graveyard:
                  1936 June 22
                  Research made by Mrs. Lola F. Addleman

Cemetery Location:  4 miles west of Cumberland, Virginia on  Route #60, about 
                    200 yards west of the old Colwell home.
                    Cumberland County


DATE:

1793, date of the oldest grave marker.

OWNERS:

Located on land belonging to Albert Trent. (1936)

DESCRIPTION:

Most of the graves are covered with bushes, grass and briers, and one can hardly 
tell where they are.  This particular grave has a smooth stone, about eighteen 
by twenty-seven inches, flat on the ground, with the following inscription cut 
by hand.  The letters are not perfectly shaped, but can be read.  The date 1793 
in the lower left corner is supposed to be the year he died.


HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Here Lies the body of 
James Madison Colwell
1793


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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