DINWIDDIE CO., VA - CEMETERIES – “Locust Grove” Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Graveyard of Locust Grove site:
                  1937 Aug. 25
                  Research made by Bettie B. Powell

Cemetery Location:  South Dinwiddie, Virginia Route #1, 1 miles north of 
                    McKenney, thence west, private road.
                    Dinwiddie County


DATE:

About 1800.

OWNERS:

Edmund Withers to John Grammer              1838
Alexander G. McClean to Hector McLean       1875
Hector McLean to Zeruh Gally                1875
W.B. Butterworth                            Feb. 27, 1937

DESCRIPTION:

The site of “Locust Grove” house is not decided.  Saw mills have so defaced the 
place.  The only sign of location is a shanty some negro family by the name of 
Batts is living in.  The graveyard is very near the shanty.  In Deed Book #13, 
Page #643, 1.25 acre is reserved for burial ground, with ingress and egress; a 
high wire fence encloses the plot.  No one has been buried there since 1860.  
The place is not well kept.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The graveyard is the sleeping home for one of the three Nationally known men of 
Dinwiddie County.

Gen. William H. Broadnax
Born Nov. 4, 1789
Died Oct. 23, 1813
To our leader, who taught us how to live and how to die.


Thomas Withers
Born Sept. 11, 1760(or 1766)
Died Jan. 19, 1843


Elizabeth
Wife of Thomas Withers
Born March 16, 1785
Died Sept. 30, 1861


Here lies
Mary L.(or T.) Atkinson
wife of Pryor B. Atkinson
of Lunenburg County, Virginia
Born May 22, 1806
Died Oct. 12, 1855
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.


To the Memory of
Sally Grammer Atkinson
Daughter of Roger B. and Mary  T. Atkinson
Died July 13, 1854
A member of Christ-the child
of God-and an inheritor of the
Kingdom of Heaven.


In memory of
Charles Nathaniel
infant son of John G. and Anna M. Lannor
Born in St. Charles, Missouri April 15, 1851
Died in Wheeling, Virginia Nov. 14, 1851


In memory of Lucy Orgain
wife of L.R.(or R.T.) Adams
Born March 30, 1836
Died Dec. 10, 1860
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God
Mathew V-8 complete


Flors Colonhoun
Daughter of Clara C. and Rev. Edmond Withers
Nat-June 22
Ob-Aug 23, 1846
Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Clerk’s Office, Dinwiddie County, Dinwiddie, Virginia:
Deed Book 11, page 541
Deed Book 13, pages 645 and 731
Deed Book 60, page 296

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