LOUISA:  CEMETERY RECORDS – COSBY CEMETERY

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, The Cosby burial ground:
                  1936 Nov. 11
                  Research made by C.E.D. Burtis

Cemetery Location:  North of Bumpass, Virginia, 3.5 miles on Route #601, thence 
                    .5 of a mile from road through the Sidney Swift place.
                    Louisa County




This burial ground is enclosed by a stone wall five feet high, two feet thick, 
sixty feet by seventy feet, with one opening six feet wide on the west side, 
with four steps leading to top of the wall.  A fine location on a level piece of 
ground on top of an elevation overlooking the surrounding property.  The wall 
was erected by Overton Peters in the year 1859, and has been kept in good repair 
by him until his death in 1875.  There are three large trees twelve inches or 
more in diameter, and several small ones, and a great tangle of bushes.  There 
are about thirty graves here many are sunken.  The other graves are covered by 
flat slabs apparently of sandstone, but in a good state of preservation, and 
supported by stone work about twelve inches high.

This burial ground is that of the old Cosby family, who owned large quantities 
of land in this part of Louisa County.  The portion on which it is located, 
sometime before the War Between the States came into the possession of Hart 
Peters.  It seems that the burial ground was started by a Benjamin Cosby, but no 
one seems to know the date.

The Cosby, Hancock and the Peters families have intermarried and the wife of Mr. 
Sidney Swift over whose property one must cross to reach the burial ground is a 
distant relative of L.B. Hancock, who erected the headstone to Mrs. Ann S. 
Hancock.  The oldest inscription is as follows:

Sacred to the memory of
Jas. G. Peters
son of Hart and Barbara Peters 
was Born Fby. 17, 1804
Died Aug. 19, 1838
This monument was erected to his memory
by his affectionate children.