NELSON COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – “Union Hill” Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Graveyard at Union Hill:
                  1937 Mar. 15
                  Research made by Annie L. Harrower

Cemetery Location:  1.5 miles southwest of Wingina, Virginia, on Route #647; 
                    House on hill on west side of road and .1 mile distant and 
                    graveyard short distance in rear of house.
                    Nelson County, Virginia


DATE:

1798.

OWNERS:

Colonel William Cabell and his descendants.

DESCRIPTION:

In the rear of the house, just outside the yard is the old Cabell burial ground.  
It is in a grove of cedar and pine trees with an iron fence enclosing it.

There are about thirty graves but only a few have tombstones.  Honeysuckle vines 
have covered the fence and most of the graves.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The following graves are marked:


Elizabeth Cabell
died November 5, 1801


Colonel William Cabell
died March 23, 1798


Mrs. William Cabell
died March 1812


Edward Cabell
died March 3, 1869


Eliza Calloway Cabell
Born  August 17, 1857
Died Oct. 26, 1862


Mayo Cabell
July 26, 1860
Dec. 2, 1861


In memory of
Robert Brown
Born March 9, 1820
Died June 8, 1880
and his wife
Margaret  Brown
Born Sept. 27, 1826
Died August 29, 1877



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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