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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The site of Eagle Point:
                  1937 July 9
                  Research made by Susie P. Barnes

Cemetery Location:  2.5 miles west of Phillis, Virginia, on Route #707, thence 
                    3.5 miles west on Route #705, thence south 1 mile on Route 
                    #706, to this site which is on the west side of the road.
                    Mecklenburg County, Virginia


DATE:

Home        1774
Cemetery    1828

OWNERS:

Tignal Jones     1774, builder of house
James B. Jones   1825
Beverly Sydnor   1836
Alexander Sydnor 1846
Lewis Wimbush    1878
H. F. Hutcheson  1829, Whose heirs are present owners. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

All that is left of this old home is the wall of the basement, which stood one 
hundred and fifty yards from the road, with a store house on the right approach, 
a large family cemetery on the left and a corn mill on the Roanoke River down 
behind the house.  The house was a frame structure, with high brick foundation 
forming the walls of the basement.  It was built on a high knoll that sloped 
down to the highway and was only one mile from Taylor’s Ferry.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The Eagle Point Corn Mill was a large one for its day and an old man once said: 
Twas a mighty good mill, but too big a thing for him, ‘cause he never could get 
back home in time for the ole lady to cook an ash cake for his dinner, case he 
had to wait his turn to get his meal ground.  This mill was burned while owned 
by Mr. Alexander Sydnor, and was never rebuilt.  Mr. Alexander Sydnor was then 
Sheriff of Mecklenburg County, Virginia.  The home and store house were burned 
while owned by Mr. Lewis Wimbush.

Eagle Point was a bury center when mill and store were both being run so near 
the ferry, which was the only means of crossing the river at that time, there 
being no bridges across the Roanoke River.

Eagle Point Cemetery is a large one on the knoll of a hill on the left 
approach to the old home.  The ground is covered with periwinkle, and at one 
time, large and very beautiful boxwood, magnolias and other ornamental shrubs 
grew there, but now these have been very much abused by allowing the cattle to 
roam over it.

There are a great number of graves there, but only three are marked, save by a 
small rock at both head and foot.

These three marked graves have white marble stones, about four feet high and 
three inches thick, with no carving except the inscriptions.

In memory of
Martha A.E.G. Jones
wife of Tignal Jones
Born November 22, 1798
died August 15, 1828


In memory of Mary A. Jones
Second wife of Tignal Jones
Married December 21, 1831
died June 11, 1832


In memory of
Tignal Jones
born April 1790
died May 4, 1856

This Tignal Jones was the son of the builder of Eagle Point and was a medical 
doctor, living on an adjoining farm to that of his father.  He was buried 
between his two wives.




SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  Mr. W.G. Pleasants, Boydton, Virginia
                 Nephew of Mr. Alexander Sydnor
             John Jackson, Boydton, Virginia
             Mr. Charlie Hutcheson, Boydton, Virginia
             Mr. N. G. Hutcheson, Boydton, Virginia

Court Records:  Clerk’s Office of Mecklenburg County, Boykin, Va.

Tombstone Inscriptions

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