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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Chappell graveyard:
                  1936 Nov.
                  Research made by Mamie Fraser

Cemetery Location:  .6 mile northeast of Dinwiddie, Virginia, on Route #1; 
                    thence east 2.5 miles on Route #141; thence south .9 mile on 
                    private road.
                    Dinwiddie County


DATE:

About 1853.

OWNERS:

Mrs. Effie Chappell. (1936)

DESCRIPTION:

There are several tombstones to be found in the graveyard and it is located now 
in the middle of the forest.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The following persons are known to be buried there:


Ada Prince Chappell
Born November 26, 1849
Died May 24, 1921


James Henry Chappell
Born 1800
Died the 23 day of October 1853


Maria Wrenn Chappell
Date of birth & death not known.


Jacob Chappell
Date of birth & death not known.


The following inscriptions are to be found on the tombstones:


Sergeant Benjamin F. Chappell
Epes Company 
C.S.A.
Born February 14, 1843
Died March 29, 1891


Oliver Wrenn Chappell
Company 1
3 Va. Cav.
C.S.A.


W.G. Wynn
Born September 29, 1806
Died October 26, 1872
I feel the shadows gathering
Close round me day by day
And there’s seems to tell me
That I shall soon pass away
Yet oh, ‘tis hard to breathe ones last
Beneath a foreign sky
Then if you love me truly
Oh, take me home to die.
Gone but not forgotten.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mrs. Effie Chappell, Dinwiddie, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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