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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, West graveyard:
                  1937 Mar. 2
                  Research made by Annie L. Harrower

Cemetery Location:  5.5 miles east of Shipman, Va., on Route #56; thence north 
                    on Route #646, 3.25 miles; thence west .5 mile up private 
                    mountain road.
                    Nelson County, Virginia


DATE:

1787.

OWNERS:

Jeanett Johnson
James Pamplin
Miss Rosa West & sisters.

DESCRIPTION:

The graveyard is on top of a high hill above the house, in a grove of large oak 
trees.  The large, tall tombstones are of gray rock, chiseled by hand and are 
said to have been shipped here from Scotland.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Here lies the body of
General Johnson
Died Sept. 26, 1787
Aged 47 years
(figures denoting year badly worn, very indestinct.   There is a foot stone 
marked G.J.)


Here lies the body of
John Robertson
Born in Scotland, Feb. 6, 1769
Died May the 17th, 1818
aged 58 yrs. 3 mos. 


Here lies the body of
Mrs. Sarah Robertson
Born Oct. 7, 1755
Died Sept. 6, 1830



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

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