LOUISA:  CEMETERY RECORDS – “HERMITAGE” 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 Hermitage and cemetery:
                  1937 Feb. 11
                  Research made by C.E.D. Burtis

Cemetery Location:  3 miles south of Fredericks Hall, Va., on Route #614 
                    directly on road on east side.
                    Louisa County




This property is said to be part of a grant of 6,000 acres from George Third, to 
Charles Barrett

Near the house is the Barret graveyard in which are found these following 
inscriptions:



In Memory of
Mary Barret
wife of John Barret
and daughter of Dr. Peter Straghan
A native of Scotland
departed this life 
in the County of Louisa, Va.
on the 19” of September 1825
Aged 77 years.


Sacred to the memory of
Mary Barret
daughter of Charles Barret and
Mary Leigh his wife
Born September 14, 1750
Died October 20, 1835
Blessed are the pure in heart
for they shall see God


Eliza Overton Holladay
Born Janr’y 13, 1850
Died May 5” 1855
A flower of rare sweetness
whose perfume lingers


In memory of
John Barret
For many years a Merchant in the City
of Richmond, Va.
and at one time, Mayor of the City,
afterwards a resident of the
County of Louisa, where he
departed this life
on the 9” of June 1830
in the 83rd year of his age