CUMBERLAND COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – “Locust Grove” Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Locust Grove cemetery:
                  1937 July 29
                  Research made by Esther R. Meadow

Cemetery Location:  5 miles north of Farmville, Virginia on Route #45, thence 
                    east 6.5 miles on Route #638.  Take the private road south 
                    .4 mile.  The cemetery is on the east side of the road.
                    Cumberland County


DATE:

1855

OWNERS:

John Miller            From unknown date to 1825
Thomas Wilson Crowder  From 1825 to 1851
John E. Crowder        From 1851 to 1888
E. S. Walker           from 1889 to the present time. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

“Locust Grove” cemetery is at the back side of the vegetable garden at “Locust 
Grove”, which garden is a few yards south of the house.  The graveyard is 
enclosed with a wire fence.  There are weeds and bushes in the cemetery, but no 
shrubbery.  There are four trees, one sassafras and three honeyshuck trees.  
There are forty graves, several of which have markers.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The following inscriptions were copied from the stones:


In memory of
Mrs. Martha J.
wife of Thomas F. Wilson
Born March 15, 1835
Died August 5, 1860


Robert S. Garnett
1821 – 1898
and
Sarah W.
His wife
1830 – 1890
and
John E. Garnett
1860 – 1877


Sacred to the memory of
Thomas Wilson Crowder
Born Dec. 23, 1795
Died Jan. 8, 1855


John E. Walker
son of E.S. Walker
May 8, 1888
June 1, 1908
He died as he lived – a Christian


Sallie Walker
Wife of E.S. Walker
Dec. 28, 1867
July 4, 1900
None knew her but to love her


John Miller, who sold this place in 1825, was a captain in the Mexican War.  He 
also was a slave holder and at one time owned several hundred acres of land.

Thomas Wilson Crowder was also a slave holder and at one time owned several 
hundred acres of land.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  E. S. Walker, Farmville, Virginia, Route #1.  Mr. Walker is the 
            present owner (1937) of “Locust Grove” and also one of the present 
            occupants.

County Records, Clerk’s Office, Cumberland Court House, Virginia.
   Deed Book 17, page 504
   Deed Book 27, page 315
   Deed Book 26, page 435

Tombstone Inscriptions


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