HENRY:  CEMETERY RECORDS – HAIRSTON 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, Hairston burying ground:
                  1937 June 16
                  Research made by H. C. Field

Cemetery Location:  1 mile south of Ridgeway, Va., on Rt #220.  Thence 2 miles 
                    east on Rt #688.  Thence 200 yards north on private road 
                    leading to burying ground.
                    Henry County




The family burying ground is about five hundred yards from the house, and is 
enclosed by a iron fence.  Same is not very well kept, and is in very bad 
condition today; most of the stone markers have fallen down and many excavations 
are exposed.  There are only eleven graves in this small burying ground.  No one 
lives in the old home today.  The only inscription that could be read is the 
following.


Sacred to the memory of
Ruth A.
Infant daughter of 
S. S. and M. M. Hairston
Died Oct. 6, 1854
“She exchanged the joys of earth for 
the joys of heaven”

Note:  The Hairston family are one of the oldest in Henry County