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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Chambers cemetery:
                  1937 June 17
                  Research made by Pattie Seay

Cemetery Location:  South of Kenbridge, Virginia, 1.5 mile on Route #637, 
thence .2 mile southwest on Route #655, north side of road.
Lunenburg County, Virginia


DATE:

1828.

OWNERS:

Natalie N. Ranson. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

On the edge of the yard at Prospect Hill, is a cemetery twenty-five feet square, 
enclosed by an iron railing four feet high, upon a stone foundation one foot 
high.  Within the enclosure, there is only one grave, at the head of which, 
there is an obelisk stone monument, fifteen feet high, resting upon a base four 
feet square, and one foot high.  Near the grave there are several old-fashioned 
rose bushes and a few small locust trees.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The inscription, which is as follows:


Henry H. Chambers, M.D.
Born in County of Lunenburg, the first of October
1790, he removed to Alabama in 1812, was elected one
of her representatives in the Senate of the United
States, and died in his native County, on his way to
the city of Washington, on the 24th. of January, 1826,
in the 37th year of his age.  He discharged his duties
in life, and died with a Christian faith in a happy
immortality.
Erected to his memory by his son, Henry C. Chambers
of Mississippi
A.D. 1859


Dr. Henry Chambers was the son of Edward Chambers and his wife Martha Cousins.  
At the time of his death, Prospect Hill was owned by his father.  It had 
formerly been owned by his brother-in-law, George Craig, who had married Ann 
Walthall Chambers.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

Court Record:  Lunenburg County, Deed Book 25, page 49.

Reference Cumberland Parish, page 190.

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