ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Benn Grave
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Stone of George Benn:
                  1937 Feb. 10
                  Research made by Florence M. Jordan

Cemetery Location:  .25 mile east of Smithfield, Virginia on Route #10; thence 
                    .5 mile north of Route #10 on Route #658; thence .25 mile 
                    west of Route #658.
                    Isle Of Wight County, Virginia


DATE:

1813

OWNERS:

Mrs. Mary McIlwaine. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

This is a flat stone and a weed grows over it in spring and it is very hard to 
find except in winter.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

George Benn gave the land on which Benn’s Church was built.

Sacred to the Memory of
George Benn, Esqr.
who departed this life on the
24th day of November 1813
Aged 51 years.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mrs. C.E. Davis, Smithfield, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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