MECKLENBURG COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Crute Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Crute cemetery:
                  1936 Apr. 23
                  Research made by Susie P. Barnes

Cemetery Location:  South of Boydton, Virginia 5 miles, east side of tar road 
                    that leads south from Boydton, about 100 yards.
                    Mecklenburg County, Virginia


DATE:

Prior to 1821.

OWNERS:

The Farrier family sold to Venable Crute, who willed it to his son James  
Venable Crute, who in turn left by will to his son James E. Crute.

DESCRIPTION:

This cemetery is well kept and enclosed by a wire fence.  There are many graves 
that have been here for more than a century, yet only one has a marker.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

This cemetery was started by the Farrier family, who settled near Boydton very 
early and built up quite extensively near Boydton and later sold to Mr. Venable 
Crute.

The inscription on the tombstone is as follows:

In memory of
Elizabeth H. Cobbs
Wife of Thomas Cobbs
of the city of Raleigh, N.C.
who departed this life
on the 14th day of September 1821
in the 32nd year of her age



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mr. Paul Tunstall, Baskerville, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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