MADISON COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Governor Kemper Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Governor Kemper graveyard:
                  1936 Nov. 13
                  Research made by Evelyn Tunison

Cemetery Location:  1 mile south of Leon Postoffice, Virginia, south of Route 
                    #29.  First gate on south side after leaving Leon.
                    Madison County, Virginia


DATE:

1853.

OWNERS:

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DESCRIPTION:

The one large monument or marker is about six feet high, two feet square at the 
top and three feet at the base.

The cemetery is surrounded by a stone wall about four feet high, part of which 
is still standing.  In the graveyard are some beautiful boxwoods, very large.  
There are a number of graves off in one corner just outside of the main 
graveyard with plain stone markers that have no inscriptions on them.  This is 
said to be the slaves graves.  There are about nine of them.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The following is taken from the monument:

William Kemper
Born Nov. 6, 1776
Died Oct. 29, 1853
and
Maria E.
His wife (nee Allison)
Born Nov. 5, 1787
Died Nov. 26, 1873

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Their Children
Mary A. Freeman
Fred K.T. Kemper
Wm. H. Kemper
Susan E. Matthews
John S. Kemper
James L. Kemper
Maria R. Botts
Sarah M. Bocock


Aside from the above inscriptions found on the main monument in the center of 
the cemetery we find the following at the head of William Kemper’s grave:

Sacred to the memory of
William Kemper
Who was born in Fauquier Nov. 6, 1770
And died in Madison Co., Oct. 29, 1853
His spirit awaits its reunion with the dust.
He left four daughters and three sons and one wife.
She who loved him living and reveres him to erect this stone.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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