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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Fork cemetery:
                  1936 Mar. 9
                  Research made by Marie Keller Frazee

Cemetery Location:  South of Cumberland, Virginia, 2.5 miles on Route #60, left 
                    6.1 miles on Route #45, right .4 mile on Route #634 and .6 
                    mile left from that route.
                    Cumberland County


DATE:

1834, date of oldest grave (marker).

OWNERS:

The Page family.

DESCRIPTION:

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HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

This cemetery is on what is known as “Old Fork Plantation”, the ancestral home 
of the prominent Pages of Virginia.

The tombstone inscriptions are as follows:


A medium sized flat marble slab inscribed:

To the memory of our Father
Robert Burwell Page
who died Sept. 1837
Aged 31 years
This stone is raised by 
His affectionate children
Honor Thy Father


A large flat marble slab inscribed:

Sacred to the memory of
Lucia Cary
daughter of Randolph and Mary Harrison
and tenderly loved wife of Nelson Page
Blessed by nature with warm affections and tender sensibilities
and a most unusual sweetness of disposition, her character
strengthened by the elevating and sactifying influences of
early and ardent piety was one of surpassing loveliness.  Ever
willing to sacrifice her own inclinations and wishes to the
good of others, she was one of the most disinterested of
human beings.
She lived beloved by all who knew her, of every age, and of
every class; and died in the enjoyment of a bright hope of a
happy immortality giving it as her dying testimony that Jesus
Christ was the anchor of her soul, sure and steadfast even
unto the end and that “for him she was willing to give up all, 
even her tenderly loved husband and children.”
She died on the 5th of August 1842
In the 33rd year of her age.


Large upright marble slab inscribed:

Sacred to the memory of
Nelson Page
the beloved son of Carter and Lucy Page
who departed this life on the 6th of Dec. 1850
Aged 49 years
Mark the perfect man and behold
The upright for the end of that man is peace.
He taught us how to live and oh – too high
The price of knowledge taught us how to die.


Small upright marble slab:

Catherine Thornton
Daughter of Johnathan P. and Lucy J. Cushing
died August 30th 1834
Aged 14 months
These ashes too, little dust
Our Father’s care shall keep
Will the last angel rise and break
The long and dreary sleep.


Small upright marble slab inscribed:

George Washington
Son of Rev. George W. and Mary M. Dame
died July 30th 1859
Aged 8 months
O let us to the Savior fly,
Whose arm alone can save
Then shall our hopes ascend on high
And triumph over the grave.


Small upright marble inscribed:

Robert
son of Frances D. and Lucy C. Irving
died March 11, 1853
Aged 2 years and 10 months
As the sweet flowers that scent the morn,
But withers in the rising day;
This lovely was this infants dawn,
Thus swiftly fled its life away.


Tall marble column inscribed:

In memory of
Bettie
Gentle wife of Rev. W.C. Meredith
and daughter of J.P. and Lucy J. Cushing
Born Sept. 14, 1831
Died Jan. 17, 1865
Tenderly beloved in every relation of life,
An humble follower of Christ and faithful member of
Church.
Her end was peace and blessed assurance forever.


Large upright marble slab inscribed:

Sacred to the memory of
Lucy Cushing Irving
Wife of Frances Dean Irving and eldest
daughter of Jonathan and Lucy J. Cushing
Having finished her course with joy
and having kept the faith, she ceased to breathe
July 8, 1855
Aged 25 years


Small upright marble slab inscribed:

William N. Page, Jr.
a soldier boy
Beloved son of William N. and F.P. Page
fell on the battle field of Manassas
July 21, 1861
Aged 20 years.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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