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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Soldiers cemetery:
                  1936 Apr. 9
                  Research made by Massie D. Thacker

Cemetery Location:  3.5 miles northwest of Norwood a station on the James River 
                    division of the Chesapeak and Ohio R.R. on Route #722.  Take 
                    Route #655 at Norwood, go west 3.25 miles to intersection of 
                    Route #722, follow this Route about .25 mile.   Site is just 
                    off side off of Highway to the west.
                    Nelson County, Virginia


DATE:

About 1862.

OWNERS:

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DESCRIPTION:

There are 25 or 30 graves in this cemetery, the signs of which can be plainly 
seen, but there are only two markers, one being a marble shaft the base of which 
is about 20x20 inches, about 8 feet high the top being about 8x8 inches.  The 
other marker is a marble slab about 12 inches wide, by 20 inches high.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The only inscription on the marble shaft is:

“Confederate Dead”

This is cut in a curve across one side of the base.

The inscription on the marble slab is:

Jonathan Poe
died August 20, 1862
aged 21 years 7 days

These soldiers were not killed in battle, but died in a hospital which still 
stands near this burial ground, but is now used as a residence.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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