HOPEWELL, VA - CEMETERIES – City Point Methodist Church Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, City Point Methodist Church graveyard:
                  1937 Aug. 2
                  Research made by Elsie D. Hamlin

Cemetery Location:  On the north side of Pierce Street, between Brown Avenue and 
                    Allen Avenue, City Point, Virginia.
                    Hopewell, Virginia


DATE:

1847, date of oldest grave.

OWNERS:

Church.

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is well cared for and many of the graves are covered with ivy.  
There are a number of beautiful magnolia and cedar trees and it is enclosed with 
hedges.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

There are many graves, but the only tombstones where the deaths occurred before 
1865, have the following inscriptions:


Sacred to the memory of
Betty F. Hardy
wife of Samuel Hardy
who departed this life Dec. 3, 1861
Aged 23 years


Sacred to the memory of
Mary E. Porter
wife of William P. Porter
who departed this life Sept. 28, 1847
in the 38th year of her age
Faithful in all life’s duties she rests
till the sound of the last trumpet.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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