HANOVER COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – “Long Row” and Fulcher Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Long Row and Fulcher graveyard:
                  1937 Nov. 29
                  Research made by James Archer Evans

Cemetery Location:  From Richmond, go 12 miles north on Route #1 to the 
                    intersection of Route #54; thence 11.5 miles northwest on 
                    Route #54 to the intersection of Route #683; thence 1.8 
                    miles east, on Route #683 to intersection of Route #658; 
                    thence east a half mile to “Long Row” on Route #658.
                    Hanover County, Virginia


DATE:

1720 (house)

OWNERS:

William Fulcher, Waller Carpenter, Daniel Kulp, Pierce Markey, Joint Stock and 
Land Bank of Durham, North Carolina.
Dates, etc. not available as records were destroyed by fire during the 
evacuation of Richmond, Virginia.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


Just west of the house is a cemetery, located in a clump of beautiful tree 
boxwood.  A monument with a base five feet square, the shaft graduated and nine 
feet tall, has the following inscription:

Sacred to the memory of
William Fulcher
who departed this life
May 30, 1844
In the 82nd year of his age
This stone has been placed here by his
widow as a memento of his departed worth


On another monument with a three foot base and an eight foot shaft, the 
following appears:


In memory of my Husband
Waller Carpenter
Born February 10, 1821
Died July 2, 1871
Asleep in Jesus


And on a flat granite stone:

To the memory of
Sarah Jane
wife of William J. Carpenter
and daughter of William and Mary Fulcher
Born October 7, 1824
Died July 29, 1853


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mrs. A.D. Lyles, RFD No. 3, Beaver Dam, Hanover County, Va.

Tombstone Inscriptions

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