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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The William Dabney family graveyard:
                  1937 Mar. 31
                  Research made by Dorothy Gray Pilout

Cemetery Location:  .1 mile west of Sutherland, Virginia, on Route #460; thence 
                    3.6 miles south on Route #631; thence 1 mile west on Route 
                    #613; thence .1 mile south on a private lane to this site.
                    Dinwiddie County


DATE:

July 1849.

OWNERS:

This land was given to William Dabney by his mother, Mrs. John Dabney, nee Miss 
Boisseau, in 1832.  It was willed by William Dabney to his daughter, Martha 
William Taylor Dabney in 1851.  It was inherited by Dabney Ragsdale and Miss 
Annie Ragsdale, children of Martha William Taylor Dabney Ragsdale and Richard 
Edward Ragsdale.  Dabney Ragsdale, the present owner (1937), recently inherited 
the share of the late Annie Ragsdale, who died without a will.

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is located in the corner of the yard, just a short distance west 
of the Dabney home.  Four graves are enclosed by a gray granite stone wall, 
which is about three and one-half feet high, and these four graves are on a 
level with the top of the wall.  The space within the wall is not large enough 
to accommodate other graves, so the other two members of the family are buried 
just outside of the east wall.  There is one marble stone for one of the graves 
within the granite wall, and there is a small marble stone for one of the graves 
just outside of the wall.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inside of the stone wall, there is a marble stone, about two and one-half feet 
high on a marble base, with the following inscription on it:


Dedicated 
To the Memory of
William Dabney
Born Aug. 7, 1808
Died Aug. 9, 1871
As a testimonial of the
affection of his daughter

There is a small marble foot-stone, marked “W.D.”.


The following members of the Dabney family are buried here, without tombstones 
at their graves:

Julia Ann Sydnor Dabney
daughter of Capt. John Taylor Sydnor and his wife.  She was born July 15, 1818 
and died July 20, 1904.

Martha William Taylor Dabney Ragsdale
daughter of William Dabney and Julia A.S. Dabney, and the wife of Richard Edward 
Ragsdale.  She was born about 1839 and died May 23, 1909.

Richard Edward Ragsdale
the husband of Martha William Taylor Dabney.  He was born April 9, 1844 and died 
April 28, 1913.

The following two members of this family are buried just outside the wall, and 
there is a small tombstone marking the grave of A.B.C. Dabney:

A.B.C. Dabney
Sacred
Daughter of Julia Dabney
Died
July 15, 1849
Aged 11 years

Annie Ragsdale
daughter of Martha William Taylor Dabney Ragsdale and Richard Edward Ragsdale.  
She was about sixty-five years of age when she died in March 1937.  Her grave is 
not marked.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  Miss Annie Ragsdale, now deceased.
             Mr. Dabney Ragsdale, Sutherland, Virginia

Court Records:  Clerk’s Office of Dinwiddie County, Virginia
                Will Book 8, page 565

Tombstone Inscriptions

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