KING GEORGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Owen Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Owen’s cemetery:
                  1937 Nov. 26
                  Research made by Julia Marie Heflin

Cemetery Location:  1.1 miles south of King George on Route #3; thence 1.6 miles 
                    southeast on Route #205; thence 2.8 miles north of Edgehill, 
                    Va., on Route #624 and .1 mile on private road in woods.
                    King George County, Virginia


DATE:

1815.

OWNERS:

The land where this cemetery is located was reserved, but the land around it is 
owned by Isaac Johnson, colored. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

This is a large cemetery, but is not kept very well.  It is located on the side 
of a private road in a body of woods.  There are a large number of stones, but 
only one stone from which the inscription is readable.  The following 
inscription was copied from the stone:


Sacred to the memory of 
Jane Owen
who died August 1, 1815
aged 80 years
O my daughter -- -- -- -- death on us
has made a --- --- weep not for us my child,
but pray we only --- till that eternal day, when
the great god shall summon all our kindred clay.


HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

None.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

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