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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Mills graveyard:
                  1937 Dec. 31
                  Research made by Lizzie B. Ragland

Cemetery Location:  15.4 miles southwest of South Boston, Virginia.  Go 2.4 
                    miles northwest from South Boston on Route #682, thence 13 
                    miles southwest on Route #659, thence .4 mile northwest on 
                    Route #662.  The graveyard is on the west side of the road.
                    Halifax County


DATE:

1859.

OWNERS:

John G. Mills, 1829
Fanny A. Marable, 1874
W. A. Osborne and R. H. Scales, 1909 to the present date (1937).  These two are 
descendents of John Mills.

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is in a grove of oak and pine trees.  There is no fence around 
it, no care is taken of it and bushes of all kinds and many wild plants are 
scattered throughout the lot.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The inscriptions copied from the stones are as follows:

Elder John Garland Mills
Born Mar. 12, 1804
Died Dec. 10, 1859
“I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation
I have not concealed thy loving kindness and thy
truth from the great congregation”.


Erected as a token of love
Kentucky, Laurel Grove
and Arbor Baptist Churches.
To the memory of their
Deceased pastor
Rev. William R. McDonald
Born Nov. 7, 1829
Died July 27, 1869
“Servant of God well done
Rest from thy loved employ
the battle fought the victory won
enter thy Master’s joy”.


J. H. Mills, grandson of John Garland Mills, established the Masonic Orphanage 
at Oxford, North Carolina.  Later he moved to Thomasville, North Carolina and 
established a Baptist Orphanage there.

There are other graves in this lot which have oval shaped iron over them about 
two feet by three feet in size.  On top of this iron is molded an open Bible 
about six by nine inches.  This covering is on two graves.  On another the form 
of a child is molded on the covering.  At the head of each grave is an erect 
piece of iron that had a marble inset for the name and date, but the marble is 
gone now and no one knows whose graves these are.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mr. J.L. Neal, South Boston, Virginia, whose wife was a relative of 
the Mills family.

Tombstone Inscriptions

Halifax County Records, Clerk’s Office, Halifax Court House, Virginia

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