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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Cameron cemetery:
                  1937 Nov. 8
                  Research made by Pattie B. Seay

Cemetery Location:  Southwest of Kenbridge, Virginia, 3.4 miles.  Go 2.2 miles 
                    on Route #40 to the junction of Routes #40 and #652, thence 
                    1.2 of a mile south on Route #652, thence about one hundred 
                    yards west across a field to cemetery.
                    Lunenburg County, Virginia


DATE:

About 1810.

OWNERS:

Bought by James Craig from Hinchia Gilliam of Brunswick County, Virginia, 1793, 
400 acres, for one hundred and forty pounds current money of Virginia.  Deed 
Book 16, page 349.

George Craig, 1809, 175 acres, for seventy pounds, described as a part of the 
Hinchia Gilliam tract. Deed Book 22, page 250.

Heirs of George Craig, 1826, Will Book 9, page 250.

Theodore Orgain, 1884, Deed Book 55, page 438, 150 acres at five dollars per 
acre.

J. J. Macklin of Ohio, 1910, Deed Book 55, page 242, 155 and 1/6th acres for 
three thousand two hundred dollars.

L. A. Hardy, 1916, 155 acres, for four thousand five hundred dollars. Deed Book 
60, page 274.

Easer T. Oakes, of Halifax County, Virginia, 1933, t320 for one thousand dollars.  
Deed Book 71, page 559.

DESCRIPTION:

This cemetery is not enclosed and neglected, being located in a cultivated field 
near the home of Mrs. Easer T. Oakes.  There are several graves, two of which 
are marked with handsome tablets, one of which is broken and the inscription is 
illegible.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

This monument which reads as follows:

This monument is erected to the memory of
Anna M. Cameron
Daughter of Revd. Doctor John Cameron and Anna his wife.
She was born the 9th of April 1787
and departed this life the 21st of July 1810.
Piety toward God, duty to her parents,
affection for her Brothers & Sisters
were the characteristicks of her short,
but well spent life.
Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord!
Beside this tomb, are deposited the remains of
Margaret M. Cameron
infant
and
Elizabeth Anderson
Daughter of Daniel Anderson, Petersburg.

Reverend John Cameron, a native of Scotland, was rector of Cumberland Parish 
from 1796 until his death in 1815.  He married September 1, 1783, Ann Owen Nash 
of Charlotte County, Virginia whose ancestry was notable.  She was a daughter of 
Colonel Thomas Nash, and his wife, Mary Read, a niece of Governor Abner Nash, 
and General Frances Nash, of North Carolina, both distinguished in the 
Revolutionary War.  She was also a niece of Clement Read, first County Clerk of 
Lunenburg County, Virginia.

Elizabeth Anderson, whose remains are deposited in the cemetery, was a grand-
daughter of Reverend John Cameron, being the daughter of Mary Read Cameron and 
Daniel Anderson, who married August 19, 1797.

It is not known why this site was chosen for the Cameron Cemetery, for in 1810, 
this plantation was owned by George Craig whose family seems in no way connected 
with the Cameron family.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mrs. Theodore Orgain, widow of a former owner of the property.

Court Records:  Clerks Office, Lunenburg County, Virginia

“Cumberland Parish”, pages 133 to 151.

Tombstone Inscriptions

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