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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Overby cemetery:
                  1937 Oct. 15
                  Research made by Susie P. Barnes

Cemetery Location:  8.3 miles west of Clarksville, Virginia; go 6 miles west of 
                    Clarksville, Va., on Route #58; thence 2 miles south on 
                    Route #735; thence .3 mile west on Route #602.  Cemetery on 
                    south side of the road 100 yards.
                    Mecklenburg County, Virginia


DATE:

1824, date of oldest grave.

OWNERS:

Descendants of the Overbey Family, to present date. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

This cemetery has a wide drive from the highway to the entrance gate, bordered 
by maples and other trees.  The cemetery is enclosed by a stone wall five feet 
high, one and one half feet thick, built of gray granite rock.  The enclosure is 
about twenty-five by fifty feet, in size, with a large iron gate at the 
entrance.  This small cemetery is well kept and the inscriptions are legible.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Old Uncle Billy Overbey, the slave carriage driver, was buried close up in the 
southwest corner of this cemetery, so greatly did the family love the faithful 
old servant.  Uncle Billy’s grand-children and great-grand-children still live 
on this old farm.


A pillow like marble headstone, marked:

Sarah Eugenia Overbey
wife of James T. Pace
Sept. 7, 1835
Dec. 20, 1917
God has the spirit
Friends have the memory
Earth the ashes.


Sacred to the memory of
Ann Overbey
Born October 28, 1775
Died June 17, 1859


Peter Z. Overbey
Born 1759
Died June 18, 1824
Resting ‘til the Resurrection Morn.


To The memory of
Edmond P. Overbey
Born  September 22nd, 1801
Died October 2, 1831
(Erected by John Overbey)


To the memory of
Hezekiah Overbey
Who departed this life on the
9th Oct. A.D. 1824
Aged 21 years  7 days


Elizabeth Elenor Overbey
who departed this life
April the 29 A.D. 1838
Aged 30 years  5 M.


Erected to the memory of the Overbey family:

Robert Yancey Overbey
Children
Minerva
Mary Adeline
Rosalie
Narcissa
Sarah Eugenia
Cornelia Caroline

Robert Camillus
Capt. Co. G 59th Va. Inf.
Wises Brigade
Ann Celesta
Alice Rebecca


Emma


Mary P. Poole
Married James E. Haskins
James Shelton, M.D.
Charles E. Williams
James A. Carr, M.D.
James T. Pace
Benjamin W.L. Hot
Major Johnson’s Co.
Tenn. Heavy Artillery
Anna Nelson Williams


William L. Trice
Thomas D. Jefferson
Capt.  Co. G. 56th Va. Inf.
Pickett’s Division
John Coke
Capt. Lee Artillery
1st Va. Art.
Pendleton’s Brigade


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mrs. Cabell Watkins Wall, Boydton, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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