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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Yowell cemetery:
                  1937 June 4
                  Research made by Mrs. Evelyn W. Tunison

Cemetery Location:  About 400 yards north of Novum post office
                    Madison County, Virginia


DATE:

1792.

OWNERS:

James M. Yowell.

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is supposed to have the Yowell’s buried in it, however, there is 
no possible way to secure these facts.  The only evidence is that this graveyard 
was on the Yowell acreage near the house.  It was never enclosed and the signs 
have all gone.  It is now covered with honeysuckle and bushes.  You can only 
detect about ten graves, these have native rocks for markers, with no 
inscriptions.

A distance of 300 yards east there is a large slave graveyard, with possibly 
twenty-five graves, which is the traditional story that the Yowell’s slaves were 
buried here.  It was on the edge of a body of woods, but today it is in a 
cultivated field.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

None.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

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