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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Burial ground on old Nash place:
                  1937 Sep. 4
                  Research made by Annie L. Harrower

Cemetery Location:  4 miles southeast of Arrington near Route #661.  Take this 
                    route at Arrington, go southeast 4 miles to intersection of 
                    Route #722, follow power line north about .25 mile, then 
                    turn west, directly toward foot of mountain, into a dense 
                    piece of pines.
                    Nelson County, Virginia


DATE:

1804, first date on stones.

OWNERS:

(blank)

DESCRIPTION:

There are several graves at this burial ground, some of which are enclosed by 
rock wall about twenty by twenty feet, some in wire enclosure, and some not 
enclosed at all.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inscription on soapstone slab:


Sacred to the Memory of
Cornelia T. Nash
Born, September 3, 1804
Died, January 1, 1883
Aged 79 Years, 9 months,
and 2 days


The other stone is a soapstone slab which has decomposed with age and weather 
until just one half of inscription is visible, which is:


Corinne
daughter
Thomas

This is on head-stone, and on the foot-stone are the letters:

C. C. A. D. 1822



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  

Court Records:  Clerks Office 

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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