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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Whittle cemetery:
                  1937 Sept. 7
                  Research made by Susie P. Barnes

Cemetery Location:  3 miles northwest of South Hill, Virginia, on Route #47, 
                    thence 1 mile northeast on Route #654, thence 2 miles north 
                    on Route #636.  Cemetery on west side of the road.
                    Mecklenburg County, Virginia


DATE:

1857 – date of oldest grave (marker).

OWNERS:

Fortescue Whittle and descendants 1857 to present date. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

A section about fifteen feet square enclosed by a wire fence, overgrown by 
periwinkle and honey suckle with mimosa and locust.  No care is taken of the 
cemetery.  Only two of the several graves have markers with inscriptions.  They 
being low granite stones.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Here we find the remains of one of the once largest land owners in Virginia, and 
father of a large family, very prominent, as also his wife Mary Ann Davis 
Whittle and possibly her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. William Davis, and one 
son, Powhatan Whittle, a prominent one arm lawyer of Atlanta, George.

Fortescue Whittle
1776 – 1857

Powhatan Whittle
1828 – 1905



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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