JAMES CITY:  CEMETERY RECORDS – EGGLESTON GRAVEYARD

Contributed by:  Joan Renfrow

NOTICE:  I have no relationship or further information in regards to this 
family.  

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Site of Eggleston Graveyard: 
                  1936 Sep. 22
                  Research made by Harold Milbard

Cemetery Location:  At Five Forks, turn north, .25 mile, west side of road.
                    James City County




The graveyard was about eighteen feet square and was surrounded by a brick wall.  
This brick wall has disappeared but traces of it may be found by digging one or 
two feet down.  The trees which surrounded the brick wall are still standing and 
form the only marker of the site.  The graveyard is about one hundred yards from 
the old house which was built in 1643 and is still standing.

Accounting to local tradition this is one of the oldest graveyards in America.  
In addition to the Eggleston family it is believed that some of the members of 
Nathaniel Bacon’s family were buried there.