FLUVANNA COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Shepherd Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Shepherd cemetery:
                  1936 Sep. 7
                  Research made by R. E. Hannum

Cemetery Location:  1.7 miles north of Kents Store, Virginia, on Route #614, 
                    thence east 1.1 miles on country road (no number), thence 
                    south .35 miles to house.
                    Fluvanna County


DATE:

About 1823.

OWNERS:

David Shepherd to T. S. Shepherd, 1850
T. S. Shepherd to Shandy Shepherd (date unknown)
Shandy Shepherd to T.O. Harvey about 1905
T. P. Harvey to M.W. Perkins 1932

DESCRIPTION:

The Shepherd family cemetery is to the south of the house about a quarter of a 
mile.  It is sixty by sixty feet and is enclosed with a stone wall four feet six 
inches high and eighteen inches thick.  All of the stone work is cut and fitted, 
and the gate-way has two heavy wrought iron gates.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The markers are as follows:


David Shepherd
Born June 19th 1760
Died March 20th, 1823


John Morton Shepherd
Born Jan. 9th 1834
Died Aug. 15th 1856


Polly Banket
wife of David Shepherd
Born June 11th 1770
Died May 13th 1849


There are several other graves but no markers.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  M. W. Perkins, Palmyra, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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