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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Site of old Shepherd home and graveyard:
                  1937 Oct. 6
                  Research made by Annie L. Harrower

Cemetery Location:  7.8 miles from Shipman, Va.  From Shipman go 4 miles east on 
                    Route #66; thence northeast (left) 2 miles on Route #722; 
                    thence west (left) 1.3 miles on Route #605; thence northeast 
                    (right) .5 mile on private road through woods.  Graveyard is 
                    on east (right) side of private road near site of home.
                    Nelson County, Virginia


DATE:

1844.

OWNERS:

Drury Shepherd and his descendants.

DESCRIPTION:

A large frame house was erected on this farm of nine hundred acres in 1832.  It 
was situated on a hill above Beaver Creek, near Manasco Mountain.  It burned 
many years ago, together with the slave cabins and outhouses around the mansion.  
The old chimneys, still standing, are all that is left.

The family burying round was in a grove of trees a short distance east of the 
house.  It is so overgrown with bushes, briars and honeysuckle that it is 
difficult to get in to read the inscriptions.  There is a heavy iron fence 
around the graves.  On tall marble monuments, the following inscriptions:


Hand with finger pointing to:

In Memory of
Lila Claudine Shepherd
Born May 28, 1842
Died Aug. 11, 1861

Weeping willow on stone:

Garland  A. Shepherd
Born Aug. 9, 1808
Died Oct. 25, 1844

Roses on head stone:

John Marcellus Shepherd
Born Sept. 16, 1844
Died Aug. 3, 1862


Roses and Lilies on head stone:

In Memory of
Garland Littleton Shepherd
Born June 12, 1840
Died Sept. 9, 1862

In Memory of
Willie D. Shepherd
Born Sept. 16, 1844
Died Aug. 13, 1862

Lilies on stone:

Sallie E. Shepherd
Born Nov. 8, 1836
Died Oct. 24, 1851



HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

None


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:   Mr. J.J. Purvis, Shipman, Virginia

Court Records:  Clerks Office 

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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