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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Purdie graveyard:
                  1937 Feb. 15
                  Research made by Florence Marion Jordan

Cemetery Location:  150 yards east of Smithfield, Virginia, on Route #10.  The 
                    graveyard is 100 yards north of highway.
                    Isle Of Wight County, Virginia


DATE:

1829.  Date of oldest grave.

OWNERS:

Thomas Purdie and his descendants.  Mrs. Richard McIlwaine present owner of 
farm. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is not kept up and is in bad condition.  It is in a thicket on a 
hill, enclosed by a wire fence.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inscription on tombstone:


Consecrated to the Memory of
Thomas Purdie
son of George and Mary Purdie
who was born on the 20th of
August 1775 and departed
this life on the 4th of
December 1829
In the 55th year of his age


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mrs. J.C. Ashby, Carrolton, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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