NELSON COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Old Jones Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Old Jones cemetery:
                  1936 Oct. 8
                  Research made by Massie D. Thacker

Cemetery Location:  2.5 miles northwest of Roseland, Virginia
                    Nelson County, Virginia


DATE:

1843.

OWNERS:

Descendants of Jones and Clarkson family.

DESCRIPTION:

Known as the “old Jones burial ground” it seems to have been quite a large one 
for a family cemetery, having room for between twenty and thirty graves.  At 
present it is very much covered with undergrowth; and has only four markers, one 
of which is broken, and two of the others very much sunken.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The following inscriptions were copied from the tombstones:


Joshua Jones
son of Thomas and  Catherine Jones
who was born January 28th 1788
and departed this life March 16th 1849


Sacred to the memory of
James W. Clarkson
Born June 1st 1820
Died Sept. 13th, 1844
Aged 24 Years
3 months & 13 days
& was the only son of John & Eliza Clarkson


Sacred to the memory of
Catherine Jones
Wife of Thomas Jones
Who was born June 11th 1780
Departed this life March 3rd 1847


Sacred to the memory of
Mathias Clarkson
Son of James Wm. & M.C. Clarkson
Who died Decr. 21, 1843


The Clarksons and Jones’ were very prominent people, being large slave holders, 
and many of their descendants still reside in this part of Nelson County, and 
are for the most part, fairly prosperous.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

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