HALIFAX COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Carden Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Carden graveyard:
                  1937 Apr. 29
                  Research made by Allan Lacey

Cemetery Location:  4.5 miles east of Scottsburg, Virginia, on Route #725, 
                    thence north 2.5 miles on Route #716, thence east 100 yards 
                    on Route #717, on the north side of the road.
                    Halifax County


DATE:

The earliest marker is dated 1861.

OWNERS:

The Carden family and their descendents.

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard contains about two hundred square yards and is fenced in.  The 
graves are covered with honeysuckle and wild flowers.  Many of the graves are 
unmarked.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


The oldest graves marked are those of Mr. John Carden, builder and first 
operator of Carden’s Mill, and his wife.  The inscriptions read as follows:

John Carden
Born Jany. 3, 1802
Died March 10, 1861


Elizabeth F.
Wife of John Carden
Born August 31, 1802
Died November 18, 1867



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mrs. March Novell, Scottsburg, Virginia, R.F.D.
            Mrs. Nowell is a descendent of John Carden

Court Records, Halifax Court House, Virginia.

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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