HENRICO:  CEMETERY RECORDS – HERBERT-JORDAN 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 Herbert, Jordan burying ground:
                  1937 Nov. 22
                  Research made by Benjamin G. Garner

Cemetery Location:  About .8 mile on Rt #60 to Charles City Road, thence 3 miles 
                    on Charles City Road, thence about .2 mile south on Monethan 
                    Road, west side of the road.
                    Henrico County




In this burying ground are a number of graves not marked.  However, there is one 
beautiful monument, and six tombstones, which are fairly well preserved though 
the inscriptions were hard to decipher.


William W. Jordan
Died
Nov. 10, 1859
Aged
59 years & 22 days.
He leaves a wife and one
child to deplore their 
loss.  In life he was
unassuming in his manners,
upright in his dealings,
an affectionate husband,
an indulgent father,
sincere friend.  His goodness
of heart and amiable
disposition will long endear
This memory to those who
knew him best.


In Memory of
Our father 
and mother
This monument was 
erected by Mary W.
and John Russell her
Husband in memory
of her beloved parents.


Arreanea
Consort of
William W. Jordan
Died June 14, 1860
Aged 67 years & 6 days
Oh Mother dear, ah can
it be thou art no more
distressed that death hath
kindly set thee free, and
thou art now at rest.


Miranda Ann Jordan
Born July 1, 1833
Died Feb. 17, 1840
She sleeps in death like
some fair flower
That bloomed awhile in
beauty’s bower.
So sensitive the storm
to hide
It folded up its leaves
and died.


In memory of
Mary Jordan
Born June 16, 1757
Died Sept. 17, 1838
There is a calm for those who weep
And rest for weary pilgrim found
And while the mouldering ashes sleep
Low in the ground
The sun is but a spurt of fire
A transient meteor in the sky
The soul immortal as its sire
Shall never die


In memory of Edmund T. Herbert
Who departed this life
June 19, 1858
In the 34th year
of his age.
Farewell, dear Edmund, thou hast gone
And left me with an aching heart.
Its hard to think thou didst so soon depart
and leave me with a broken heart.

Child, I’ve loved you remembr’d by me
How oft at midnight hour I think of thee
And when at morn I raise this aching head
I wake to sad remembrance that thou art dead.
Thy early death will oft recall a sigh
To think that all I love must die.


Sacred to the memory of
Sarah
Wife of 
Thomas Herbert
Died Aug. 3, 1871
in the 82nd. year of her age
Blessed are the dead who die
in the Lord for they rest from
their labours.  Rev. XIV-18


In memory of
Thomas Herbert
Who died
December 6th., 1855
In the 69th year of his age
Daughter we will meet again.


Virginia Herbert
Born 17th. December, 1830
Died 13th. Feb., 1840
Father and Mother
Your child gone.
In the morning of life
She has left you behind
But sweetly she sleeps in
Her early grave.

Weep not for your child
She will meet you again.