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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Taliaferro place:
                  1936 Apr. 22
                  Research made by Massie D. Thacker

Cemetery Location:  4 miles southwest of Norwood, Virginia, direct Route.  Take 
                    Route #655 at Norwood, go 4.5 miles west to intersection of 
                    Route #722, go south on this route 2 miles to a small 
                    cottage on the road side, then go 1 mile northwest on farm 
                    road.  Place is near the foot of mountain.
                    Nelson County, Virginia


DATE:

About 1810.

OWNERS:

Mr. Taliaferro purchased this place in the year 1810 from James and Nancy 
Loving, for the sum of ninety pounds current money.

Mr. Mays   --- to 1936, present owner. (1936)

DESCRIPTION:

There seems to have been four houses on this place, built very close together, 
two of which nothing remains but the chimneys.  The other two, which are of log 
construction are very much tumbled down.  One of these buildings has four rooms, 
being two stories high.  The other is so far gone it cannot be said how many 
rooms were in it.  All the chimneys are of rock, some of which seem to have been 
cut as the shape is so perfect.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

There are two burial grounds on this place, one to the northeast of buildings in 
oak trees; the other to northwest in thick pines.  One of these has about 14 or 
15 graves, none of which have any markers except rocks.  The other has 10 
graves, 4 of which have engraved stones as follows:

In Memory of
Richard Layfayette
son of Eliza C. & R.L. Taliaferro
Born Aug. 23, 1818
Died Feb. 25, 1848
(Masonic emblem)


In memory of
Mrs. Martha Elizabeth Coleman
daughter of Eliza D. & R.L. Taliaferro
Born Aug. 25, 1814
Died Aug. 25, 1841


In memory of
Mrs. Eliza Coleman
wife of Rodk. L. Taliaferro
Born November the 3rd 1795
Died November 6th 1831


In memory of
John Melville
son of J.F. & A.M. Taliaferro
Born March 28, 1853
Died July 7th 1855

(The inscriptions were all on marble slabs.)




SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Court Records:  Clerks Office Nelson County.

Tombstone Inscriptions

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