HOPEWELL, VA - CEMETERIES – Old Sailor’s Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The old sailor’s cemetery site:
                  1937 Aug. 9
                  Research made by Elsie D. Hamlin

Cemetery Location:  At the head of Main Street, between Main Street and the 
                    Appomattox River.
                    Hopewell, Virginia


DATE:

About 1811.

OWNERS:

The land belonged to the Eppes’ estate, it being a part of the land granted to 
Captain Francis Eppes in 1635, by the Crown of England, until 1937 when it was 
bought by the Bland District School Board, the present owner.

DESCRIPTION:

This cemetery has been in disuse for so long a period that no grave markings are 
noted on the surface of the ground, with the exception of two old headstones 
falling into decay, located in the rear of the property.

Workmen are now removing stumps and clearing the place, as the new Patrick 
Copeland School is to be erected here.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Many years ago City Point was a place of activity, and a Port of Entry for 
foreign shipping, and when a sailor died in City Point and his body was not 
claimed, it was buried in this cemetery.

Mrs. Macon Batte, of City Point, says that she has heard her father, the late 
Captain Samuel N. Cook, say that all of them were foreigners and were buried in 
this cemetery.

There are two tombstones, one of which has decayed so much that the inscription 
is illegible but “Jona Sp Melso, a native of Sweden, Born October 28, 1811, died 
April 1855”.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  Judge Thomas B. Robertson, Hopewell, Virginia
             Mrs. Macon Batte, 1013 Maplewood Ave., City Point, Virginia

Court Records:  Price George County, Virginia

The Richmond Times Dispatch, Sunday June 30, 1935.

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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