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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Joseph W. Harper’s graveyard:
                  1937 Sept. 28
                  Research made by Bettie B. Powell

Cemetery Location:  5 miles west of McKenney, Virginia on Route #40, thence 3.5 
                    miles on Route #638.
                    Dinwiddie County


DATE:

1826.

OWNERS:

Colonel Joseph W. Harper.

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is southwest of the Harper home, each grave is enclosed 
separately with an iron railing.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inscriptions on tombs:


Susan G. Harper
wife of Col. Joseph W. Harper
Died Dec. 12, 1826


Sarah J. Harper
wife of Col. Joseph W. Harper
Died Sept. 22, 1856


Sallie G. Harper
wife of Col. Joseph W. Harper
Died March 28, 1882

By his request Col. Joseph W. Harper was buried on this side at the feet of his 
three wives.  There is no marker to his grave.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  John W. Baskerville, R.F.D. #1, McKenney, Va.

Court Records, Dinwiddie County, Virginia
Deed Book Vol. 2, page 90

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