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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Dawson home:
                  1936, Oct. 22
                  Research made by Marie K. Frazee

Cemetery Location:  2.4 miles north of Cumberland court House, Cumberland, 
                    Virginia on U.S. Route #60; thence left .9 mile on Route 
                    #45; thence right .3 mile from that route.
                    Cumberland County


DATE:

Unknown.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

There are three cemeteries in close proximity of the house.  One is at the 
northwest of the house.  There is only one tomb stone here with inscription:

Ivanhoe Talley
Born Nov. 29, 1850
Died by Poison, Jan. 19, 1858
Aged 7 years, 1 month & 21 days


A few other graves are at the southwest corner of the yard.  A slave cemetery is 
at the east of the house.  The Dawson home has been in the family for nearly a 
hundred years.  Through marriage into the Tate family years ago, the Dawson 
family is connected with the family of Mark Twain.  Old slaves, now dead, told 
of high times during the ownership of Colonel Sims.  He kept whiskey in the 
basement, and Dr. Frayser of Cartersville was a frequent visitor.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  Mr. F.H. Irving and Mrs. Frank Dawson, both of Cartersville, 
             Virginia.


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