NELSON COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – “Belmont”, Barbour Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Belmont, Barbour place:
                  1938 April 6
                  Research made by Annie L. Harrower

Cemetery Location:  3.5 miles northwest of Norwood, Virginia.  From Norwood, go 
                    3.2 miles west to intersection of Route #722; thence turn 
                    right and go northeast .2 mile; thence by private road.  The 
                    house is on the west side of the road, about 200 yards.
                    Nelson County, Virginia


DATE:

1810. (house)

OWNERS:

Colonel William Cabell
Robert Rives
Alexander and Lucy Brown
Dr. G. Harrison
John S. Barbour
R.S. Burruss/Piedmont Lumber Company

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

This property was once owned by Robert Rives in the early 1800’s.  A daughter 
married General Alexander Brown, the son of Larence Brown.  Larence Brown 
married Sarah Cabell Calloway, April 6, 1842.  She died July 25, 1849.  This 
Alexander Brown, was born September 3, 1843.  He finished the “Cabell and Their 
Kin” May 23, 1895, after writing on it for five years.  He was a young General 
in the War Between the  States.

During the War Between the States, this building was used for a hospital, the 
soldiers being brought here from Richmond; and along the Canal, they were 
brought to New Market, now Norwood, on the boat and on to “Belmont” by ox-cart 
or horse and wagon, to be cared for, General Alexander Brown being in charge of 
the place.  The ones who died are buried a short distance from the house by the 
old road.

Sheridan and his men passed through here on their way to Buckingham, and some of 
his men got sick and were cared for here too.  The ones who died are buried not 
far from the house.

There were many slaves on this farm.  Mr. Rives gave to his daughter, Lucy, the 
farm of eleven hundred and sixty-eight acres, and sixteen or more slaves.

In an isolated spot in the corner of the woods, is the burial ground for the 
soldiers who died in this Hospital.  There are twenty-five or thirty graves but 
only two with inscriptions one being a marble shaft about eight feet high and 
tapering to a point, with a twenty by twenty inch base and eight by eight inches 
at the top and having these words:

Confederate Dead


The other marker is a marble stone twenty inches high and twelve inches wide, 
and has these words:

Jonathan Poe
Died August 20, 1862
Aged 21 years and 7 days



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  W. E. Kitchen, Shipman, Virginia.  An old resident.

Court Records:  Clerks Office of Nelson county at Lovingston, Virginia.

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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