HAMPTON, VA - CEMETERIES –  Cemetery at Langley Field
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Cemetery at Langley Field:
                  1937 Mar 23
                  Research made by Mrs. Eleanor S. Jacobs

Cemetery Location:  From Hampton, Virginia, you take the road leading to Langley 
                    Field, Virginia, and as you enter the entrance of the Post to 
                    the east about a block, is this cemetery.
                    Hampton, Virginia


DATE:

1796, date of oldest inscription.

OWNERS:

Owned by the Government.

DESCRIPTION:

This cemetery is enclosed with a brick wall and the graves are well kept.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


This property was formerly called the Sherwood Farm, and was owned by the 
Bookers until the Government bought it.  It is said that this was the original 
burying ground of the Booker family of Hampton, Virginia, and they owned this 
entire Government Reservation, with an exception of a small amount owned by the 
Hudgins.

The following inscriptions are from stones now standing.

In memory of
Elizabeth M. Armistead
Wife of Moss Armistead of Norfolk
Who departed this life Nov. 23, 1803
Aged 23 years
The stone at the foot has E.M.A. 1803.  This stone is concrete.


Sacred to the memory of
William Albert Horsaley
of Staten Island
State of New York
who died Nov. 1st, 1834
Aged 22 Years
10 months and 10 days.
The stone at the foot has W.A.H.  This stone is beautiful white marble.


There is a small gray stone not more than a foot wide, a half foot thick and 
about eight inches high, very rough; in other words, it looks like a rock with 
the initials “J.B.”.


Here lieth
Ann Hollier
the Daughter of Simon and Ann Hollier
She died the 16th day of March, 1796
Aged 12 years
She sleeps nor can the lovely angel hear
The mourning voice of Friends however dear
The pangs of keeneft Woe their foll’n heart may rend
Alas: her disembodied Soul cannot attend.
(This is a flat white marble stone lying on the ground.)


Here Lieth
Frances Hollier
the Daughter of Simon and Ann Hollier
She died the 4th Day of Janry 1798
Aged 16 years
Her Soul is fled and gone to Raft from this
World of Grief and sin among the good and
Righteous forever to remain.
Stop: reader Stop: let nature claim a Tear
A Mothers laft and only Child lies here.
(This is also a white marble stone and lies flat on the ground.)



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

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