LOUISA:  CEMETERY RECORDS – PORTER 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 Porter graveyard:
                  1937 Feb. 18
                  Research made by Nancy S. Pate

Cemetery Location:  East Trevilians, Virginia .4 mile on Route #4, turn north 
                    cross the railroad and continue .8 mile on Route #613, 
                    thence west .3 mile on a private road, a few yards south in 
                    a clump of pines.
                    Louisa County




Owners:
This place was first owned by James D. Porter, father of Jesse Porter, who was 
County Clerk of Louisa  County for a long time.

Description:
The old Porter home, which was built and owned by James D. Porter in the early 
part of the eighteenth century, burned several years ago, and on this property 
is the family graveyard just a little east of the home site in a clump of pine 
trees, some of which have fallen and lapping over each other, and Periwinkle has 
covered the graveyard.  There are several graves but only one marker, that of 
Mr. Porter’s young daughter, Victoria.

Historical Significance:
Victoria, was just eighteen years of age and died of fever, and it is said that 
she was engaged to be married, and that this stone was erected by her 
sweetheart.  It reads as follows:

In Memory of
Victoria
Daughter of James D. and Catherine
Born July 1-th 1833
Died Oct. 3rd, 1856