HENRICO:  CEMETERY RECORDS –  DRESSING STATION GRAVES

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, Dressing station on Nine Mile Road: 
                  1937 Jan. 12
                  Research made by Benjamin G. Garner

Cemetery Location:  3.5 miles east of Richmond, south side of Nine Mile Road
                    Henrico County




Owners:

Mrs. Boyd             ? to 1882
C. Bullheller      1882 to 1931
Sam Callahan       1931 to  ?
Mrs. Kent             ? to 1937, present


As one approaches this home, for it has been remodeled to such an extent that it 
has all appearances of a modern home.  However, the same four rooms that stood 
here during the war and was used as a dressing station for the wounded, is part 
of the home.  It has been built up and modernized just as the new part appears.  
All traces of history belonging to this place have been removed.

There is a large chimney running through the center of the house as it stands 
now, but this chimney in the earlier date was on the end of the house, for at 
that time there was a large brick chimney on each end.

This old home belonged to a widow Boyd, who resided here during the Seven Days 
Battle, and she also had a son who was killed in that battle.  His remains, 
along with seventeen other Southern Soldiers were buried in the left corner of 
the yard surrounding the house.  Their graves were marked by a huge cedar tree, 
but this has been removed long ago.

Informant, Mrs. E. R. Bruner, remembers when these graves were well kept and 
fresh flowers placed on them each day.

The two rooms upstairs were used solely by the South for a dressing station for 
the wounded Southerners.  Mrs. Boyd having donated her home for that purpose.