DINWIDDIE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – “Groveland” Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Groveland site and graveyard:
                  1936 Apr. 17
                  Research made by Mamie Fraser

Cemetery Location:  12 miles south of Dinwiddie Court House, Virginia, and about 
                    2 miles from the Stage Road and .5 mile from the Bolling 
                    Road.
                    Dinwiddie County


DATE:

1832

OWNERS:

“Groveland” was very probably a home of a King family as records show that 
Samuel Pryor purchased it from William R. Johnson, September 9, 1836, it being 
the same tract conveyed to Mr. Johnson by Elizabeth King and Mary King by their 
two deeds, the former bearing date June 15, 1832 and the latter, July 1, 1834.  
Samuel Pryor sold this home to E.E. Overton.  It was next purchased by John 
Slate, November 29, 1842.

“Groveland: is known in that section as the home of the Slates.  It was next 
purchased by George W. Barner, and owned next by inheritance, by John W. Barner.  
It is now owned by The American Hardware Company, of Petersburg, Virginia. 

This house was burned several years ago.

DESCRIPTION:

This house consisted of one medium sized room and hall on the first floor and 
the same on the second floor.  Mr. Slate reared a family of twelve children in 
this small house.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

There is a graveyard at “Groveland:, but there are only two tombstones.  They 
bear the following inscriptions:


Mother
Addie
Wife of J.C. Duane
Died Nov. 1, 1892
Aged 45 years
In love she lived
In peace she died
Her life was craved
But God denied.


Father
John Curran Duane
Born July 7, 1846
Died March 10, 1918

(Mr. Duane married Mr. Slate’s daughter)



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mr. Robert Fraser, Dinwiddie, Va., Route #2

Dinwiddie County Court Records.

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