DINWIDDIE CO., VA - CEMETERIES – Dabney Cemetery ----¤¤¤---- Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The John Goodwyn Dabney family graveyard: 1937 Mar. 31 Research made by Dorothy Gray Pilout Cemetery Location: .2 mile east of Dinwiddie, Virginia, on U.S. Route #1; thence 2.3 miles on Route #661; thence .4 mile east by a private lane; thence .1 mile south to this site. Dinwiddie County DATE: About 1830. OWNERS: The land on which this graveyard is located was inherited by William Dabney from his mother, Mrs. Nancy Dabney. This place was deeded to John Goodwyn Dabney by William Dabney on September 9, 1837. A deed to this property was made to Mary A.P. Dabney by R.K. Meade, Commissioner appointed by the Court, in November 1850. Mary A.P. Dabney willed it to her son, John P. Dabney during his life, and at his death it was to go to his son, Benjamin Eppes Dabney, January 14, 1873. John P. Dabney died before Mary A.P. Dabney, so the place went to Benjamin Eppes Dabney, who gave a deed of trust on the place in August 1888. Default was made in the payment of the deed of trust, and the place was sold at public auction. However, the graveyard had been previously reserved by John Goodwyn Dabney and it remains the property of the Dabney family, although the land all around it belongs to other persons. DESCRIPTION: This graveyard is located in the middle of a cultivated field, and is square in shape; but is divided into two rectangular shaped sections. One-half of it is enclosed by a flint rock wall, which is about two and one-half or three feet high, and does not have any openings except where the rocks have fallen out of place. There are several graves in this section, but only one grave is marked by a tombstone, which is a plain upright marble slab. The other section in enclosed by an iron fence, about three feet high, and there are three graves in it, but they have no tombstones, but do have small rocks at the head and foot of each grave. There is a heavy undergrowth over the entire graveyard. This section is of more recent date. After the other section was full, it was walled up and the second section was added and enclosed with an iron fence. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Only one grave has a tombstone: To the Memory of B. E. Dabney, Sr. A veteran of the lost Cause of 1865 Born August 8th, 1841 Died in 1865 (this not on the stone) The following graves have no tombstones: John Goodwyn Dabney Birth and death not known, but was married in 1823. Mary Ann Pritchard Gunn Dabney wife of John Goodwyn Dabney. Born in 1809 and died about 1885. An infant of John Goodwyn and Mary A.P. Dabney. John Parham Dabney a son of John Paschal Boisseau Dabney and Mary James Lanier Dabney. Lanier Dabney a son of John Paschal Boisseau Dabney and Mary James Lanier Dabney. John Paschal Boisseau Dabney Born June 28, 1836, died Aug. 3, 1878. Benjamin Eppes Dabney a son of John P.B Dabney and Mary James Lanier Dabney, born in 1867 and died in 1907. Linda May Boisseau Dabney wife of Benjamin Eppes Dabney. Birth and death unknown. Death about 1925. SOURCES OF INFORMATION: Informants: Mrs. Mary James Lanier Dabney, 120 W. Tabb Street, Petersburg, Va. Mrs. Broaddus Shortt, nee Miss Dabney, North Market Street, Petersburg, Va. Mrs. J. Travis Harmon, Sutherland, Va. Court Records: Clerk’s Office of Dinwiddie County, Virginia Deed Book 1, page 583 Deed Book 6, page 509 Deed Book 9, page 529 Tombstone Inscription Visit by worker. ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Joan Renfrow NOTICE: I have no relationship or further information in regards to this family. ___________________________________________________________________