HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Campbell Cemetery #2
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Thos. Campbell graveyard:
                  1936 Nov. 25
                  Research made by Howard Hiner

Cemetery Location:  At Valley Center, Virginia
                    Highland County, Virginia


DATE:

None.

OWNERS:

Harry Lightner

DESCRIPTION:

It was a private graveyard of the Thomas Campbell family and contains a number 
of markers.  It is practically in the woods today.  The hill on which it is 
situated was at one time in grass, but it is now covered with pine trees of 
considerable size.  It is not fenced in, except a small portion that is partly 
fenced with pickets and boards.  This portion is of the immediate Campbell 
Family.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The Campbells although not among the earliest of the pioneer settlers, were among the most prominent families in the early annals of this county.  The first settler of this family name was Alexander who came to this county in 1797.  His son Thomas born in 1800 and buried here was the first county surveyor and helped survey Highland County boundary line in 1847.

The inscriptions are:


Elizabeth
Wife of Thomas Campbell
1800 – 1857


Patience K. Campbell
1834 – 1834


Rebecca A. Campbell
1835 – 1837


Albert Campbell
1838 – 1859


Rebecca P. Campbell
1840 – 1854


Matilda Campbell
1827 – 1854


Amos Campbell
1832 - 1859


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:   Mr. & Mrs. Harry Lightner
              Mrs. Anson Bird, Valley Center, Va.

Court Records of the family and local history.

Tombstone Inscriptions

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