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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Richard James Tucker graveyard:
                  1937 Aug. 5
                  Research made by Mamie Fraser

Cemetery Location:  7 miles southeast of Dinwiddie on Route #626, thence .2 mile 
                    north on a private road.
                    Dinwiddie County


DATE:

1892, date the graveyard was begun.

OWNERS:

The plantation on which this graveyard is located was owned by Richard James 
Tucker and inherited by Frank Tucker who reserved the family burying ground when 
he sold the property to Thomas Corling in 1920.

DESCRIPTION:

There are no tombstones to be found in this burying ground.  The graves are 
covered with honeysuckle, and there is a very beautiful spruce tree in the 
graveyard.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The following persons are buried in this graveyard:


Richard James Tucker
died March 1892
aged sixty-two years


Rebecca Chappell Tucker
wife of Richard James Tucker
died October 2, 1902
aged about seventy-five years


There is also buried here a Mr. Ford, whose first name and the date of this 
birth is not known.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mrs. Frank Tucker, Dinwiddie, Virginia, Route #2

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