HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Dinwiddie Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Dinwiddie graveyard:
                  1936 Oct. 30
                  Research made by Howard Hiner

Cemetery Location:  1 mile west of Vanderpool, Virginia, in the gap between 
                    Vanderpool and Meadowdale.  It is on the right side of the 
                    road leading to Mill Gap and is on a hill across and on the 
                    other side of a tributary of Jackson River.  It is about one 
                    eighth of a mile from the road.
                    Highland County, Virginia


DATE:

Unknown.

OWNERS:

Dinwiddie and Stephenson families,
Boyd Stephenson, present owner. (1936)

DESCRIPTION:

The graveyard contains approximately one fourth of an acre and it is in an open 
pasture with no fence around it.  Cattle graze over the sunken graves.  Some of 
the graves are marked with common stones but there are no inscriptions except 
one large stone marking a grave enclosed with an iron fence.  The inscription on 
this stone dates after 1865.  It is stated that some of the Stephensons 
requested that stock be allowed to graze over the graves.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The Dinwiddie family were among the earliest settlers in this section of the 
county.  There were four brothers who entered claims for land here as early as 
1769.  A patent was obtained in 1781.  The amount taken up at different times 
under different patents totaled 1215 acres.  After the death of the last 
surviving member of this family living in the county, which occurred in 1855, 
the land was inherited by relatives living in the est.  The administrator was 
slow in settling the estate and the proceeds of the farm, which sold for 
$16,000.00, went into Confederate money, a total loss.  James Dinwiddie, one of 
the original settlers was killed at Point Pleasant in 1774.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Willie Gibson, Vanderpool, Virginia

Augusta County Records.

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