HENRICO:  CEMETERY RECORDS – HOPKINSON 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 Hopkinson burial ground:
                  1936 Nov. 9
                  Research made by James Archer Evans

Cemetery Location:  3 miles northeast of Richmond on Mechanicsville Turnpike
                    Henrico County




There are many unmarked graves in this cemetery but there is one handsome 
granite shaft seven feet tall, graduating from a three foot square base which is 
inscribed.

This cemetery was in the direct path of some of the heaviest fighting around 
Richmond during the War Between the States.

The shaft which shows where the only marked grave is, is inscribed as follows:


Erected to the memory of
James Hopkinson
and
Mary
his wife
who departed this life 
29th. of April 1836
Age 65 ___ the 20th of February 
1842.  Age 66.
Their record is on high