DINWIDDIE CO., VA - CEMETERIES – Billups Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Billup’s graveyard:
                  1937 Aug. 30
                  Research made by Mamie Fraser

Cemetery Location:  6.8 miles south of Petersburg, Virginia, on Route #604; 
                    thence west .1 mile on  Route #669.
                    Dinwiddie County


DATE:

1825, date of oldest grave.

OWNERS:

Mr. John T. Wilkerson. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

There are two large table tombs in the plot.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The following inscriptions are to be seen on the stones:


Sacred to the memory of
That aged Christian,
Augustine Billups
Who lived faithful in discharge of his duty,
And finished his course in the County of Dinwiddie
The 18th of June 1825
Aged 69 years
This tomb is erected by his disconsolate wife,
Mary Billups
By the upright
Who knew his worth as a servant of the Lord.
He is Lamented.


Sacred to the memory of
Captain Augustine Ellis
Merchant of Petersburg,
Died 16th of March 1826
In the 52nd year of his age.
His afflicted wife has caused this tomb to be erected
In memory of
An affectionate, kind husband
Benevolent,
Kind master
And a warm friend of his Country.

Thy years were few but thy virtues were many
They are recorded not on this perishing stone
But in the book of life, and in the hearts
of thine afflicted friends.

The same lot contains the dust of four of his children to died in infancy.

Soldier approach this tomb and drop a tear
The relics of a brave man moulders here,
If kind, sincere, if honour swells thy breast,
Kneel here, a brothers soul lies at rest.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

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