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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Wintergreen graveyard:
                  1937 Sep. 9
                  Research made by Annie L. Harrower

Cemetery Location:  .1 mile northeast of Wintergreen, Virginia, on Route #151.  
                    House on north (left) side of road and graveyard is a few 
                    yards east of the house on north (left) side of road.
                    Nelson County, Virginia


DATE:

1840.

OWNERS:

Hawse N. Coleman and his descendants.

DESCRIPTION:

The graveyard is in a level spot, east of the mansion under large cedar trees.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Hawse N. Coleman, I, found a large flat rock, about 7 feet long and nearly 3 
feet wide, shaped somewhat like an Indian arrow head.  He had this stone put on 
an ox-cart and hauled to the present site of the graveyard, and his request was 
that after his death he should be buried at that place and the rock put over his 
grave.  He died in 1840 and his request was granted.

There are several other graves, but only the following have inscriptions on tall 
monuments:

Sacred to the memory of
Dr. Hawse N. Coleman
Departed this life July 21, 1877
In the 52nd year of his age
I am the resurrection and the life.
He that believeth in me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live.


In memory of 
Mary
wife of John W. Harris
Born October 18, 1824
Oh, Stranger, spare this spot,
For here lies my mother.
May I but me thee on that precious shore,
The parting words shall pass my lips no more.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mrs. John W. Harris, Wintergreen, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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