CITY OF NEWPORT NEWS, VA - CEMETERIES – Crafford Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Crafford family graveyard at Fort Crafford:
                  1937 Aug. 6
                  Research made by Dorothy Diffenderfer

Cemetery Location:  1 mile south of Lee Hall on Route #60, thence 6 miles west 
                    on Route #259, thence 1.6 miles south on Roosevelt Drive, 
                    thence 1.2 miles on Middle Island Road, thence 1 mile west 
                    on private road, thence 50 yards east.
                    City of Newport News, Virginia


DATE:

Earliest date not obtainable.

OWNERS:

Crafford Family (original)

United States Government, (present owner) 1918 - . (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

Part of a large battery runs across the Family Graveyard of the Craffords,  The 
rest is grown up in underbrush and honeysuckle.  There are no tombstones.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

During the War Between the States, the battery called Fort Crafford was built on 
part of the Crafford family burying ground.  There were never any tombstones.  
The graves were marked by trees planted at the head and foot.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Miss Lucy Crafford, Denbigh, Virginia

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