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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Wheatland cemetery:
                  1937 Sept. 17
                  Research made by Susie P. Barnes

Cemetery Location:  Go 4 miles northwest of Boydton, Virginia on Route #46; 
                    thence 2 miles west on Route #677.  Cemetery on north side 
                    of the road.
                    Mecklenburg County, Virginia


DATE:

1844 – date of oldest grave (marker).

OWNERS:

Goode descendants, to present date. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

The gate to the cemetery is entered through the garden.  A beautiful rock wall 
surrounds the entire cemetery and the wall is about four feet high and fifteen 
to eighteen inches thick, in perfect condition.  The rocks are of the granite 
type.  Periwinkle covers the entire ground as a deep carpet and a very large 
cedar is covered with beautiful ivy.  The graves are built up about one foot, 
with brick walls and covered with granite slab bearing the inscriptions.  There 
are two small children’s graves that the inscription has worn off from the 
weather.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Here is buried William O. Goode, Sr., builder of Wheatland and a prominent 
Congressman from this district for three terms and elected for the fourth term 
just before he died.  He was a man that owned much land and many slaves and 
goodly wealth.  Also his wife Sarah Massie is buried here.  And his son William 
O. Goode, Jr., who was killed during the War Between the States.

Sacred to the memory of
William O. Goode
Who was born Sept. 16, 1798
Died July 3, 1859


W.O. Goode
Son of W.O. and Sarah Goode
Born  Sept. 15, 1830
Died May 8, 1863


Sacred to the memory of
Sarah
wife of William O. Goode
who departed this life
14 April 1844
in the 33rd year of her age.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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