LUNENBURG COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Boswell Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Boswell cemetery:
                  1937 June 4
                  Research made by Pattie B. Seay

Cemetery Location:  Southeast of Rehoboth, Virginia, 3.7 miles on Route #622, 
                    thence southwest 2.9 miles on Route #634, and about 100 
                    yards east on private road.
                    Lunenburg County, Virginia


DATE:

1797.

OWNERS:

Samuel G. Hubbard, 1918.

DESCRIPTION:

This neglected old cemetery is not enclosed.  In it, there is one very large 
tulip poplar tree with a tall undergrowth of hollies, cedars, pines and dogwood.  
There are a good many graves marked with rough stones, having no inscriptions, 
while there are two white marble monuments with inscriptions.  Both of these are 
in good condition, being only slightly discolored.  The larger monument was 
erected to the memory of John I. Boswell, and his two wives.  It is a large 
square column about five feet high on a double iron base, which is about 
eighteen inches high.  The other monument is a broad upright slab about three 
feet high, having an iron base also.  This was erected to the memory of Bettie 
Weslie, wife of Dr. J. J. Almand.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

John I. Boswell, son of Joseph Colgate Boswell and Elizabeth Elliott, of Amelia 
County, Virginia, was born in Gloucester County, Virginia.  He was a 
Revolutionary soldier, having served as a private in the First Virginia 
Regiment.  He was twice married in 1784.  His second wife was Barbara Walker, 
whom he married October 27, 1798.  He was the grandfather of Dr. Lewis Boswell, 
a native of Lunenburg County, who after graduating in medicine, located in the 
county, then removed to Greenwood, Mississippi, and later invented an airplane.  
Dr. J. J. Almand, the husband of Bettie Weslie, was a prominent physician of 
Lunenburg County, and related to the Boswell family.

The inscriptions on the monuments are as follows:


Mary
Wife of John I. Boswell
Born Feb. 28, 1766
Died July 14, 1797


John I. Boswell
Born Apr. 5, 1761
Died Mar. 3, 1823


Barbara Walker
Wife of John I. Boswell
Born Jan. 22, 1775
Died June 13, 1854


Bettie Weslie
Wife of Dr. J. J.  Almand
Born Sept. 24, 1829
Died June 14, 1852
“Come up higher”



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mrs. John C. Almand, grand-daughter of John I. Boswell, and 
daughter-in-law of Dr. J.J. Almand, Rehoboth, Virginia.

Tombstone Inscriptions

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