CUMBERLAND COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – White Hall Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, White Hall cemetery:
                  1937 July 6
                  Research made by Esther R. Meadow

Cemetery Location:  9 miles northeast of Farmville, Va. on County Route #600, 
                    thence north of this road.
                    Cumberland County


DATE:

About 1797

OWNERS:

William Walker            1752
Warren Walker             1752
William Walker            1785
William B.B. Walker       1828
William D. Walker         1870
Wm. D. Walker’s widow     1879
E.S. Walker and W. Walker 1929 to present (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

The Hall cemetery is situated one fifth of a mile south of White Hall.  The 
graveyard is not enclosed.  There are several old cedar trees in this cemetery, 
but no shrubbery.  The graves have no markers, but are overgrown with weeds and 
bushes.  There are forty graves, some of which are very old.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

William Walker, one of the former owners of White Hall, fought in the 
Revolutionary War.  Not only this, but he had the privilege of being present at 
the surrender of Cornwallis, at Yorktown.  This gentleman was the grandfather of 
the present owner, E.S. Walker.

This same gentleman, Wm. Walker, made his own coffin several years before his 
death, and kept it under his bed.  Late in life, he was converted.  After this 
event, he had all of his peach trees cut down, doubtless so that there would be 
no temptation to have the peaches made into brandy.  After his conversion, Mr. 
Walker, although he was not an ordained minister, went to Brown’s Presbyterian 
Church and preached.  He was buried at White Hall.  Date unknown.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Ownership, Will Book No. 1, page 56
           Will Book No. 2, page 473
           Deed Book No. 5, page 531
           Deed Book No. 30, page 128
           Deed Book No. 33, page 13, 30
           Deed Book No. 67, page 399
           Will Book No. 3, page 59
           Deed Book No. 19, page 3

Informant:  E.S. Walker, Farmville, Va. R. #1
            One of Present Owners of White Hall. (1937)

Tombstone Inscriptions

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