HANOVER COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Thompson Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Thompson burying ground:
                  1936 Aug. 8
                  Research made by Mrs. D.L. Avery

Cemetery Location:  Northeast of Richmond, Virginia, on Route #360, for 10 
                    miles; thence east on Route #606, for 1.3 miles, on the 
                    north side of the road.
                    Hanover County, Virginia


DATE:

1775 is the earliest date inscribed on any tombstone.

OWNERS:

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DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is about a mile and a half from the site of Old Church.  It is 
thought that the two were at one time connected.  Here there are fifteen or 
twenty graves that are marked with wooden fence enclosures, or just a post or 
some shrubbery.  The one large and well preserved stone is at the head of a 
child’s grave and a tree, probably a hundred years old, is growing immediately 
from the grave.  The stone is about two feet wide and stands about four feet 
high.  It is about six inches in thickness.  It is carefully carved, showing an 
hour glass design, indicating the brevity of the child’s life, with wings on 
either side of the hour glass.  Under the wings on the left side is a spade or 
shovel while under the other wing is what appears to be an open book.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The stones carry the following inscriptions:


Here Lyeth the Body of
John Thompson,
son of John and Ann Thompson
borne 17th of March 1735 ˝
And departed this life the 8th of November 1736


W. J. Rice
Apr. 28, 1894
Mar. 5, 1901


Our informant tells us that the last inscription above is that of a man whose 
brother and sister are still living but she does not know just where.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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