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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The John Stith Thomas family graveyard:
                  1936 Nov. 12
                  Research made by Dorothy Gray Pilout

Cemetery Location:  On the north side of and a quarter of a mile from the Cox 
                    Road, and three and a quarter miles west of Sutherland, 
                    Virginia.
                    Dinwiddie County


DATE:

The first death is reported to have been in 1909.

OWNERS:

Descendants of John Stith Thomas, and Miss Lucy Thomas lives in the Thomas home, 
located near this graveyard. (1936)

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is not enclosed, and there are no stones to mark the graves, but 
the following members of the Thomas family are buried here.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


John Stith Thomas
born in Brunswick County April 13, 1831
died in Dinwiddie County November 27, 1909


Emily Frances Heath Thomas
born in Prince George County August 4, 1885
died in Dinwiddie January 17, 1909
She was the wife of John Stith Thomas


Members of family buried here after 1860:

Lelia Bell Meade Thomas, wife of Jeter B. Thomas
A child of Jeter B. and Lelia M. Thomas
Four children of John Stith and Emily Heath Thomas
Lucy Meade Thomas, a daughter of John S. Thomas, Jr., and Jennie Meade Thomas.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Jeter B. Thomas, Sutherland, Virginia

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