DINWIDDIE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – White Oak M.E. Church Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, White Oak Methodist Episcopal Church graveyard:
                  1936 Oct. 1
                  Research made by Bettie B. Powell

Cemetery Location:  4 miles west of Hebron, Virginia, on Route #460; thence .1 
                    mile south on Route #620.
                    Dinwiddie County


DATE:

1888, date of oldest grave.

OWNERS:

White Oak Methodist Episcopal Church.

DESCRIPTION:

The cemetery is to the back of the church.  There is no enclosure.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The tombstones bear the following inscriptions:


Anna Catharine Chambers
Born Jan’y 25, 1848
Died May 28, 1911
Her children rise up and call her Blessed


John C. Chambers
Born Sept. 13, 1888
Died Jan’y 1, 1913


Wirt Proctor Chambers
Born Feb’y 18, 1880
Died Feb’y 25, 1900


Edward Hugh Chambers
Born Mar. 17, 1893
Died May 18, 1930


At Rest
Elizabeth Clardy
Wife of J.D. Townsend
Born Aug. 3, 1846
Died Aug. 30, 1919


In memory of My Husband
Jefferson Davis Townsends
Born Aug. 3, 1864
Died Aug. 9, 1914
You are gone but not forgotten


In memory of
Joseph Henry Townsends
Born 1862
Died Sept. 5, 1903
My dear Father you are gone
but not forgotten


In memory of
Elnora Pleasant Clardy
Born Apr. 9, 1861
Died May 29, 1892
My dear Mother you are gone
but not forgotten


Lettie Green Swann
1826 – 1895
Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord


In memory of
Warren Brown
Born Oct. 2, 1836
Died May 28, 1915


In memory of Mother
Mary P. Warren
Died July 18, 1889
Age 56 years


In memory of Father
Pleasant Clardy
Died July 23, 1888
Age 73 years


In memory of Mother
Martha Clardy
Died Oct. 25, 1892
Age 69 years



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Reverend T.L. Simpson, Ford, Virginia.

Court Records, Clerk’s Office, Dinwiddie County, Virginia.

Deed Book 3, page 610.

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