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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Old Loving graveyard:
                  1937 Feb. 15
                  Research made by Annie L. Harrower

Cemetery Location:  .1 mile north from Lovingston, Virginia on Route #29.  
                    Graveyard on west side of road.
                    Nelson County, Virginia


DATE:

1846.

OWNERS:

James Loving grant from the King of England early 1700’s
Lunsford Loving        1812
C.T. Estes             1829
Henry Bibb and Company 1830
G.E. Caskie            1889
Peirce Loving          1889
Louis Frazie           1911 to 1919
L.G. Tucker            1919 to present (1937).

The Loving’s and their descendants reserved the rights to the burial grounds.

DESCRIPTION:

Just across the road from the Old Loving Home is the Loving family graveyard.  
Situated on a sloping hill, with a high stone wall all around it, part of this 
wall has fallen down in the past few years.  The small graveyard is now covered 
with bushes and briars, and a few old oak trees still remain.  There are a good 
many graves in this small graveyard, but only a few have markers.  Back of this 
graveyard, is where the slaves were buried, no markers there at all only old 
field rocks at the head and foot.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Captain Lunsford Loving was a Captain in the War of 1812.
He is buried in this graveyard.


Sacred to the memory of
Margaret N. Loving
Wife of Captn. Lunsford Loving 
of the War of 1812
Born Oct. 8, 1780
Died June 27, 1863
In the 83rd year of her age


Sacred to the memory of
Captn. Lunsford Loving 
(a Mason) and Captain in the War of 1812
Born March 29, 1779
Died Aug. 7, 1856
In the 78th year of his age


In memory of
Elizabeth
wife of Orville Loving
Born  Feb. 15, 1805
Died Aug. 9, 1855


William Loving
Died June 6, 1850
Age 74 years


Elizabeth J. R.
wife of S. G. Perrow
Born Aug. 18, 1815
Died May 12, 1846
Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord


My Husband
Pere W. Young
Born June 25, 1818
Died June 30, 1850


To my mother
Betsy Loving
Died October 24, 1855
Age 82 years



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mr. L.G. Tucker, owner (1937), Lovingston, Va.

Court Records:  Clerks Office, Nelson County, Lovingston, Va.
                Deed Book 1, pages 610-612-614
                Deed Book 7, page 440
                Deed Book 6, page 499
                Deed Book 24, page 283
                Deed Book 36, page 346

Tombstone Inscriptions

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