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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Ferrell family graveyard:
                  1938 Jan. 31
                  Research made by May S. Rice

Cemetery Location:  19 miles southwest from Halifax, Virginia.
                    15.7 miles west (left) from Halifax, Virginia, on Route 
                    #360, thence 3 miles south (left) on Route #662, thence .3 
                    miles east (left) on a private road leading to the house, 
                    family graveyard in rear of the house.
                    Halifax County


DATE:

About 1827.

OWNERS:

William Ferrell, 1818, Deed book 27, page 145
Ferrell Ancestors, present owners (1938).

DESCRIPTION:

To the rear of the house is the Ferrell Family Graveyard.  There are four graves 
with an iron covering and an iron stand at the head of the graves.  These stands 
are made open-work of flowers.  Over the graves are iron coverings shaped 
something like a pine cone and on the raised central part is a flower pot of a 
similar shapre.  There are no inscriptions or dates on them.

It is a known fact that they are the graves of William Ferrell, and other 
members of the Ferrell family.  William Ferrell died in 1827 and is buried 
there.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:




SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Jacob Alderson, present tenant, Paces, Virginia

Court Records, Halifax County

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