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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Oak Hill Cemetery:
                  1936 Mar. 4
                  Research made by Marie Keller Frazee

Cemetery Location:  West of Cumberland, Virginia, 3 miles south on Route #60, .7 
                    mile right on Route #629, 1.3 miles to “Oak Hill” home where 
                    the cemetery is located.
                    Cumberland County


DATE:

1842, date of oldest grave (marker).

OWNERS:

(blank)

DESCRIPTION:

This old graveyard is now in a state of neglect, but nevertheless still shows 
signs of its being at one time, carefully cared for.  It is oval in shape, 
having a low wall of soil around it.  The center of the cemetery is elevated to 
nearly the height of the wall, thus forming a walk-way inside the walls around 
the entire group of graves.  There are many other graves, but unmarked except 
for two pieces of native stone, one at the head and one at the foot.  These 
graves really appear to be much older than the ones above mentioned.  The entire 
cemetery and walls are covered with running ivy, forming a thick carpet.  There 
are eight or ten beautiful old boxwood trees in the cemetery.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The following inscriptions were found on stones in this cemetery:


Large flat marble slab inscribed:

In memory of
Mrs. Lucy Allen
the wife of William W. Allen, of Mobile.
She was born March 21, 1822 and died Oct. 7, 1847.
Amiable, accomplished and devout. She lived beloved and died
rejoicing in the hope of a joyous immortality through Christ 
Jesus, our blessed Redeemer.
A dutiful daughter, a warm friend, a truly fond wife
and a tender Mother.
She was what a woman ought to be.
Her infant son of only two months and twenty-five 
days old sleeps by her side.
Her eldest born departed before her, her second
survives to cheer her bereaved husband and remind him of its
sainted mother, lamented wife whose mortal remains here lie
entombed.


Small upright marble slab inscribed:

Of such is the kingdom of God
In memory of
Eliza
infant daughter of William W. and Lucy Allen, she was
born on the 17th of June and died on the 12th of Sept.
1847, aged two months and twenty-five days.
Erected by her bereaved father.


Large upright slab inscribed:

This is the grave of a Little Child
whom God in his goodness, called to a Bright Eternity
when he was very young.
Hard as it is for Human Affection
To reconcile itself
No Death in
Any shape (and most of all perhaps at
first in this)
HIS PARENTS
Can even now believe
That it will be a Consolation to them
Throughout their lives
And when they have grown old and gray
Always to think of him as a child
IN HEAVEN
“And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in
the midst of them.”
He was the son of Anthony and M.I. Thornton, called
Charles Irving
He was born on the 20th day of January, 1841 and died on
the 12th of March, 1842
Having lived thirteen months and nineteen days.




SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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