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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Locust Grove Cemetery:
                  1937 Aug. 4
                  Research made by Pattie B. Seay

Cemetery Location:  Southeast of Victoria, Virginia, 1 mile on Route #662, 
                    thence 3 miles south on Route #661, thence 2.5 miles east on 
                    a private road, right side of this road.
                    Lunenburg County, Virginia


DATE:

1815.

OWNERS:

Peter Jones, prior to 1815.
William Moses, the present owner. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

There are large pines, cedars, tulip poplars and dogwoods, with a thick 
undergrowth of bushes in this unenclosed cemetery.  There are many graves 
covered with periwinkle and honeysuckles, most of which are marked with rough 
stones without inscriptions.  There are also several monuments of recent years.  
Over one of the old graves is a marble table, resting on five square columns two 
feet high.  It is very much discolored, but has inscriptions.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The inscription as follows:

Sacred to the memory of
Ann S. Overton
She was the daughter of Peter and Jane Jones
Born 27th day of August, 1792
Died August 1, 1834
(Other part of inscription illegible.)

The cemetery took its name from the home, “locust Grove” which was situated a 
short distance in front of it, and was destroyed by fire about 15 years ago.  
This was the home of Peter Jones, who was raised on Deep Creek, in Amelia 
County, Virginia.  He married Jane Stokes, a daughter of David Stokes, (the 
elder) of Lunenburg County.  From the eleven children of this couple, there are 
many descendants, a number of them being in Lunenburg County.  A notice of Peter 
Jones’ death is recorded in Rev. John Cameron’s Register of Baptisms and 
Funerals For Cumberland Parish as follows:  

Peter Jones Sen. died the 24th day of January and was buried the 7th day of April 
1815.

Ann Stokes Jones, daughter of Peter Jones and his wife, Jane Stokes, married 
William G. Overton, of Amelia County, Virginia about 1817.  They lived in 
Lunenburg County.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

Cumberland Parish, page 320
The Richmond Times Dispatch, June 1, 1913
Genealogical Column

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