HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Hamilton and Graham Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Hamilton and Graham graveyard:
                  1936
                  Research made by Howard Hiner

Cemetery Location:  3 miles south of Clover Creek, Va. on state road #259
                    Highland County, Virginia


DATE:

1840

OWNERS:

W. A. Moats (1936)

DESCRIPTION:

The condition is only fair, it having been neglected some of the stones are 
lying on the ground and the fence is partly down.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inscriptions as follows:


Jane Graham
Died Oct. 25, 1865
Aged 84 yrs. 9 mo. & 12 ds.


Alexander Hamilton
Died March 28, 1840
Aged 49 yr’s. 5 mo. & 26 ds.


Agness Graham
Died March 3, 1848
Aged 73 yrs. 1 mo. & 24 ds.

The Hamilton and Graham families were among first settlers in this region, and 
were early owners of this property, some of the descendants still live near 
here, being among the most prominent people of this county.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

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