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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Mount Elba:
                  1936 Nov. 13
                  Research made by Marie Keller Frazee

Cemetery Location:  3.4 miles north of Cumberland, Virginia on U.S. Route #60; 
                    thence northwest 11.9 miles on Route #45; thence west 4.8 
                    miles on Route #16; thence 1.5 miles south from that route.
                    Cumberland County


DATE:

1819

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The cemetery is at the south of the house.  The remains of the old stone wall 
are still there.  At one time the wall was intact and had a stone arch gateway 
on the north side.  The tomb stones are hand hewn out of native stone.

The stones are all the same size and rounded off at the top.

Some of the inscriptions:


To the memory of
Major David Shields
Born August 28, 1768
Died August 1837


To the memory of
John B. Shields
Born March 2, 1815
Died December 3, 1818


To the memory of
David W. Shields
Born Nov. 18, 1816
Died Dec. 17, 1833


To the memory of
Dr. Alfred W. Shields
Born Feb. 22, 1807
Died April 19, 1841

The other tombstones have no death date on them.

B. P. Shields
Born December 3, 1820


M. J. Shields
Born October 31, 1821

In the road that runs by the front lawn of the house, was a long stone set 
upright in the ground.  It is thought to have marked an Indian grave.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  Messrs. M.J. and Oscar Parker, Columbia, Virginia.
             Mr. F.H. Irving, Cartersville, Virginia.

Tombstone Inscriptions

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