FAUQUIER:  CEMETERY RECORDS – BOWEN-SMITH GRAVES

Contributed by:  Joan Renfrow

NOTICE:  I have no relationship or further information in regards to this 
family.  

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Two old graves:
                  1936 Apr. 30
                  Research made by M. D. Gore

Cemetery Location:  From Calverton, Virginia, proceed southeast 3 miles on Route 
                    616, thence northeast about 300 yards by private road.
                    Fauquier County




The following epitaphs are found in a graveyard on Mrs. Alma Peter’s Farm about 
three miles southeast of Calverton on Route #616.  The spot is easily 
distinguished by two graceful elm trees about three hundred yards northeast of 
the road.  The house is about one hundred twenty yards northwest of the 
graveyard.  There are two graveyards enclosed by wire fences but the 
inscriptions given below are on tombstones just outside the fence on the 
southeast side.


Sacred to the memory of
Eliza B. Bowen
Consort of William A. Bowen
who departed this life
February 27th, 1836
in the 31st year of her age
My husband who weeps around my grave
Compose your mind to rest
Prepare with me for sudden death
And live forever blest


In memory of
Buckner A. Smith
who departed this life
April 12, 1842
Aged 17 years