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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Fitchett graveyard:
                  1937 Dec. 2
                  Research made by Dorothy Diffenderfer

Cemetery Location:  .9 mile south of Lee Hall, Virginia, on Route #60, thence .6 
                    mile west on Route #259, thence 2.2 miles south on private 
                    road, on east side.
                    City of Newport News, Virginia


DATE:

Unknown.

OWNERS:

United States Government, present, from 1918. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

The old graveyard was situated on a hill in a grove of trees and extending out 
into the open field.  A road and track now runs across the graveyard.  A few 
broken slabs may still be seen scattered around.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

This was probably one of the oldest graveyards in the county.  It is located 
very near the old Jones brick house on Mulberry Island.  The house changed 
owners many times, and the graveyard was used by all the families.  At one time 
there was an iron fence around it, but this, too, is gone.

When the United States Government bought the property in 1918, they gave thirty 
days for the dead to be moved.  The rifle range tracks were run across the 
graveyard, and the tombstones, bodies and everything, were dug up and used in a 
fill by the river.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Miss Betty Young, Oyster Point, Va.

Visit by worker.

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