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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Graveyard at Woodberry, site of Woodberry:
                  1937 Nov. 9
                  Research made by Annie L. Harrower

Cemetery Location:  6 miles east of Shipman, Va.  From Shipman go 5 miles east 
                    on Route #56 to Hebron Church and take private road through 
                    peach orchard and woods for 1 mile.  Site on west (right) 
                    side of road.
                    Nelson County, Virginia


DATE:

Unknown.

OWNERS:

Elisha Estis        Prior to 1811
Nelson Anderson              1811, D.B. 1, page 405
Benjamin Perkins             1846, D.B. 13, page 404
Benjamin Perkins heirs until 1899
Samuel Woods                 1900, D.B. 29, page 24
John D. Piggott              1905, D.B. 32, page 494
T. W. Wilder                 1911, D.B. 36, page 276
Red Apple Orchard Corp.      1911, D.B. 36, page 536 Present Owner (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

This was a large frame building situated in a grove of oak trees.  It was the 
ancestral home of the Anderson and Perkins families.  It was destroyed by fire 
more than fifty years ago.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

T.B.M. Perkins was born here.  He was an officer in the Confederate Army during 
the War Between the States, and was Commonwealth’s Attorney of Nelson County for 
a number of years.

Just below the site of the old mansion is the family burying ground.  A high 
rock wall surrounds it.  There are seven graves but only one has a marker.  This 
is a grey stone, three feet high with the following inscription:

Mrs. Agnes Anderson
who departed this life
July 7, 1832
60 Years of age.

(There is a verse at the bottom of the inscription but it is not legible.)



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Court Records:  Clerks Office of Nelson County at Lovingston, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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