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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, A. R. Whitehead home:
                  1936 May 12
                  Research made by Massie D. Thacker

Cemetery Location:  5.75 miles northwest from Tye River Depot.  Take Route #669 
                    at Tye River, go north 3 miles to intersection of Route 
                    #665, go west on this Route about 2.75 miles to intersection 
                    of farm road leading south.  Site is about 400 yards from 
                    the highway due south.
                    Nelson County, Virginia


DATE:

Unknown.

OWNERS:

The home of Mr. A.R. Whitehead was once in a boundary of land known as “Rose 
Isle”, which tract was granted to Robert Rose, who was born in Scotland in 1704.  
This land was granted to him sometime between 1735 and 1748, and embraced a 
scope of several thousand acres lying in Amherst and Nelson Counties.  The 
earliest records obtainable show that the portion owned by Mr. Whitehead was 
purchased by William H. Morgan from William Morgan and wife in 1823, for the sum 
of $23,085.00, and was then a boundary of two thousand three hundred and eighty 
acres.  It was purchased again in 1837 by George Jones from Wm. H. Morgan but 
was only six hundred and one and a half acres lying partly in Amherst and partly 
in Nelson County.  Later the property went into the hands of a family of Witt’s, 
but no record can be found of the date of this purchase, nor the one made by Mr. 
Whitehead.  The place now contains only one hundred and eighty acres.
A.R. Whitehead --- to 1936, present owner. (1936)

DESCRIPTION:



HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

There is an old burial ground just south of the house at the outer edge of the 
garden.  There is a marble slab inscribed:


In Memory of
Mary Ida
Daughter of David and  Elizabeth Witt
Born June 29, 1855
Died March 28, 1860
Asleep in Jesus blessed thought,
Ida’s at rest above,
At rest within that happy home,
Where life is perfect love.


Sacred to the memory of
John Shipman Jr.
Who departed this life at his residence in New Market
Jan. 28th, 1858, in the 28th year of his age.  Leaving
a wife and two little children to mourn the irreparable
loss of a most tender and devoted husband and kind and
affectionate father.
Weep not who dieth
For he sleeps and is at rest.
And the couch whereon he lieth,
Is the great earth’s quiet breast.


In Memory of
Little John Anna
Youngest daughter of John and Sally A. Shipman
Born Feby 24, 1856
Died April 26, 1860

There is more inscribed on this slab, but can not be read on account of moss and 
mildew.  These are all marble slabs made by J.B. Gaddess, Lynchburg, Virginia.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mrs. A.R. Whitehead, Tye River, Virginia

Court Records:  Clerks Office Nelson County, Lovingston, Va.

Tombstone Inscriptions

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