DINWIDDIE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Leonard Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Captain T.S. Leonard family graveyard:
                  1936 Nov. 10
                  Research made by Dorothy Gray Pilout

Cemetery Location:  3 miles north of the junction of Namozine and Browns Roads, 
                    and is on the east side of and .5 mile from the River Road.
                    Dinwiddie County


DATE:

1888. date of oldest grave.

OWNERS:

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DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is located in a big open field, and is enclosed by a paling 
fence, which has fallen down in places.  It is on top of a hill, and contains 
three graves, only one of which is marked by a tombstone.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The following is a Confederate marker:


Theophilus S. Leonard
Co. D
13 Va. Cav.
C.S.A.
Born Dec. 7, 1832
Died Sept. 21, 1921

Captain T.S. Leonard’s wife, who was Marianna Gresham, is buried beside him.  
She was born Dec. 15th, 1847 and died 1888.

The other grave is that of a child.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mr. Hugh Leonard, son of Captain T.S. Leonard,
            Sutherland, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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