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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Morrison Episcopal Graveyard:
                  1937 Mar. 17
                  Research made by Dorothy Diffenderfer

Cemetery Location:  .3 mile southwest of Morrison, Virginia, on Route #615, 
                    thence .1 mile west on Route #238, on north side, directly 
                    on highway.
                    City of Newport News, Virginia


DATE:

1873, date of oldest grave (marker).

OWNERS:

Morrison Episcopal Church, original and present. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

The Episcopal Graveyard lies around the church on all sides.  There are some 
squares by the front entrance.  This graveyard is in very bad condition.  Tall 
weeds and grass are growing and there is some underbrush.  Services have not 
been held in the church for years, so everything looks in a run-down condition.  
The graveyard has an iron fence around it.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The following inscriptions were copied from the tombstones:


Col. Jos. Hutchinson Ham
June 6, 1838
April 25, 1912
and
His Wife
Anna Gambol
April 10, 1844
February 17, 1930


Henrietta G. Gambol
wife of Oliver P. Copeland
Born Dec. 26, 1838
Died Feb. 11, 1904


Fred J. Becker
Born May 23, 1846
Died Feb. 14, 1915
None knew thee, but to love thee.


B. W. Copeland
Dec. 14, 1850
Sep. 5, 1919


Mother
Mollie Davis Copeland
Aug. 4, 1855
April 1, 1928
At Rest


Pauline A. Becker
Born Jan. 28, 1830
Died Nov. 15, 1907



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

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