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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Locust Grove graveyard:
                  1937 Aug. 18
                  Research made by Annie L. Harrower

Cemetery Location:  Go east from Shipman, Virginia 5 miles on Route #56; thence 
                    4 miles northeast (left) on Route #646; thence 2 miles east 
                    (right) on Route #645 near intersection of Routes #645 and 
                    #644.  Graveyard is on hill 200 yards on south (right) side 
                    of road #645.
                    Nelson County, Virginia


DATE:

1862.

OWNERS:

Sherwood Bowman and his descendants.

DESCRIPTION:

This old graveyard is in a grove of different kinds of trees not far from the 
dwelling house.  There are about 20 graves unmarked.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

There is only one grave with an inscription, as follows:


In Memory of
Alexander R. Seay
a member of Co. D 19th Virginia
Regiment, who fell in battle
before Richmond, June 30, 1862,
in the 18th year of his age



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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