HENRICO:  CEMETERY RECORDS – CHRISTIAN GRAVEYARD

Contributed by:  Joan Renfrow

NOTICE:  I have no relationship or further information in regards to this 
family.  

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Christian burial ground:
                  1936 Sep. 25
                  Research made by James Archer Evans

Cemetery Location:  4.5 miles east of Richmond, Va., .5 mile north of Craigton 
                    Road.
                    Henrico County




This old graveyard is located just to the north of the old Christian home.  It 
is one of the most unique family plots in the country, covering a rectangular 
space fifty feet long by twenty feet wide.  It is surrounded by a fence of iron 
pickets with heavy iron posts spaced at ten foot intervals and a gate at the 
eastern end which is secured by a massive iron lock.  The pickets are about 
three quarters of an inch in diameter and the posts about six inches in 
diameter, with an iron rail one inch in diameter holding the pickets in place.

There is only one monument here.  This is the shape of an obelisk, resting on a 
base, on which are engraved all the names of the Christian family that are 
interred here.  This monument rests on a one foot thick, solid stone, thirty-six 
by thirty-six inches square.  The next section which carries the lettering and 
which is a solid piece two and one half feet square and two and one half feet 
tall, is topped by a six foot obelisk which is graduated and carries the name 
CHRISTIAN on one side.  This completed the monument, giving it s height of nine 
and one half feet.


The following inscriptions are on the east side:


George Gilmer Minor
Died April 25th, 1880 
Age 67


Caroline Louise Christian
his wife,
who died June 10th, 1888
age 68


John Henry Christian
Died August __, 1842


John Dandridge Warren
Husband of Edmonia Christian
died June 21st, 1888


The inscription on the south side is:

Sacred to the memory of
our grandfather and grandmother
Edmund and Judith Christian
and to their children and
grandchildren buried here.
“When Christ who in our life shall appear,
then shall ye also appear with Him in glory”


Inscriptions on the west side are:

William Albert Christian
died April 18th, 1859
Age 56


Edith Murdaugh Christian
his daughter,
died February 15th, 1859
Age 5


Jonas Cliver Christian
died August __, 1845
Age 44 years


Christina Shields Christian
his wife,
died October 3rd, 1865
Age 50 years
And four of their infant children


Inscriptions on the north side are:

Edmund Christian
died April 3rd, 1851
Aged 51 years


Judith Bray Minge
his wife,
died March --, 1837


David Minge Christian
died August 9th, 1805
Age 1 year


Mary Minge Christian
died September 10th, 1813
Aged 2 years


Rebecca Ann Christian
died August 19th, 1818
Age 2 years


Elizabeth Collier Christian
died September 11, 1831
Age 23 years


Jonas Rivera Christian
died January 2nd., 1852
Age 9 years