CUMBERLAND COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Old Smith Place Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Old Smith place:
                  1937 Sept. 25
                  Research made by Mrs. Esther R. Meadow

Cemetery Location:  6.8 miles southwest (left) of Cumberland Court House, 
                    Virginia, beginning on Route #60.  
                    2 miles southwest (left) of Cumberland Court house, 
                    Virginia, on Route #60, thence 1.8 miles south (left) on 
                    Route #45, thence 3 miles southeast (left) on Route #620. 
                    Turn to the south (right).  The house is by the side of the 
                    road.
                    Cumberland County


DATE:

1847, date of house.

OWNERS:

Robert Smith                1810
Stephen Cooke               1810
Segul H. Parrack            1842
Thomas Parrack              1852
Moses A. Smith              1852
Mary R. Smith               1911
Peter B. Smith              1905
J. Spurgeon Smith           1906
L. H. Smith                 1911


HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

There is the family graveyard 60 yards northeast of the house.  Half an acre was 
reserved for the cemetery, but a section of ground 30 yards square is enclosed 
with woven wire.  In this graveyard, there are several trees, two being cedar 
and the remainder locust trees.  The place is overgrown with honeysuckle.  There 
are ten graves, only one having a marker.  This marble slab is at the grave of 
an old Confederate soldier, James Woodruff.  He served the entire four years in 
the War Between the States.  Mr. Woodruff was the brother-in-law of the present 
owner (1937) J. S. Smith.  The first person to be buried at this place was the 
sister of the present owner and the first wife of James Woodruff.  She was 
buried about 1870.  Incidentally, Mr. Woodruff’s second wife was also the sister 
of J.S. Smith.

Moses A. Smith, a former owner, was a deacon of the Baptist Church for forty 
years.  He was the father of the present owner.

Peter Smith, who was the brother of the present owner, was a deacon of the 
Baptist church for thirty years.  He had the church built, in which he worked.  
In 1882, Moses Smith, Jr., the brother of J.S. Smith, was accidentally shot, 
while hunting squirrels.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mr. J. Spurgeon Smith, Cumberland, Virginia RFD

Cumberland County Records, Cumberland Court House, Virginia

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