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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Leak cemetery:
                  1936 Feb. 26
                  Research made by Massie D. Thacker

Cemetery Location:  2.5 miles east of Arrington, Virginia on Route #655 about 
                    3/8 mile to northeast of highway, turn off of highway at 
                    Duncard Church.
                    Nelson County, Virginia


DATE:

1818.

OWNERS:

(blank)

DESCRIPTION:

This slab is of soapstone about 2.5 inches thick, 18 inches wide and 18 inches 
high, engraving seems to have been done with hand tools and is very neatly done.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

There is only one slab in this burial ground, inscription as follows:


The body of
Sophia Leak
who departed this life on Friday
the 3, July 1818
aged 15 months
The grief of a fond mother and the blaffid expectation
of an indulgent father
Suffer little children to come unto me
and forbid them not for of such is the
Kingdom of Heaven


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

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