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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Gambol graveyard:
                  1937 Jan. 8
                  Research made by Dorothy Diffenderfer

Cemetery Location:  300 yards southeast of the site of “Gambol House”, which is 
                    .5 mile south on Route #60, from Waters Creek Bridge, 
                    Warwick County, Virginia, .2 mile west through Museum Gates.
                    City of Newport News, Virginia


DATE:

1852, date of oldest grave (marker).

OWNERS:

Mariners’ Museum, 1930
Mrs. Henrietta Copeland
Mrs. Anna Ham   1852
John Gambol

DESCRIPTION:

There are five tombstones in this little family burying ground.  The Mariners’ 
Museum has built a brick wall about four feet high around the graves for 
protection.  The graveyard is situated on the point of a ridge on the east bank 
of the creek and is overgrown with underbrush.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The following inscriptions were copied from the tombstones:


John Gambol
Born Feby. 2, 1802
Died Oct. 20, 1852
Blessed are the Dead
Which Die in the Lord


Mrs. Mary Ann Curtis
Feb. 1818
Died Oct. 29, 1855


Jno. Thompson
Co. H.
36th
N.Y. Inf.


Mary A.C. Copeland
1855 – 1877


Martha J. Gambol
Born March 8, 1851
Died August 30, 1855


James T. Gambol
1846 – 1869


Mary E. Gambol
1842 – 1862


William Gambol
(nothing more)



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant: Mr. J. Z. Holzbach, Superintendent of Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, 
           Virginia 

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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