LOUISA:  CEMETERY RECORDS – “SUNNING HILL” 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, Sunning Hill:
                  1936 July 13
                  Research made by Nancy S. Pate

Cemetery Location:  10 miles northeast of Louisa, Virginia.  From Louisa go six 
                    miles north on Route #628; thence 1.7 miles east on Route 
                    #613 to Dickinson’s store; thence three miles west to house.
                    Louisa County




The first Minor to settle in  Virginia came from Holland, and he spelled his 
name Dodus Myndus.  In his will, in leaving his property to his son, Garrett 
Minor, he spoke of him as “My son, Garrett Myndus, now spelled Minor”.  In 
Meade’s “History of Albemarle”, mention is made of this Garrett Minor as having 
been fined for bringing oysters to shore on the Sabbath.

Garrett Minor married Mary Terrell, whose mother was a Carr from “Bear Castle”, 
in Louisa county.  At this death the property was left to his youngest son, 
Doctor James Minor.  Another son, Peter Minor, purchased “Ridgway”, on the Stony 
Point road in Albemarle county.

Doctor James Minor had three daughters – Virginia Watson Minor, who married 
James Rawlings of Spottsylvania county; Julia Ann Minor, who married John Z. 
Holiday, also of Spottsylvania county, and still another daughter who married a 
Magruder of Albemarle county.  It was she who had the home place sold during the 
War Between the States and contributed to the Confederacy by purchasing 
Confederate bonds.

A Johnson family owned the place for a number of years, and it is now the 
property of George Estes. (1936)

The old family graveyard is located in front of the house and is surround by a 
rock wall having two entrances, closed with iron gates.

There are many graves, but only two headstones.


Virginia Watson Rawlings
Youngest daughter of the late Dr. James Minor
of Louisa
and wife of James Rawlings of Spottsylvania
Born 25th. of August 1822
Married in 1843
Closed her radiant life May 10, 1847
Her husband and two sons survive


Here lies the remains of
John Z. Holiday
Born in Spotsylvania Co.
Dec. 12th 1806
Married to Julia Ann Minor
May 19th 1838
Died Oct. 12th 1842