NOTTOWAY COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – “The Shore” Foster Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Shore, Foster cemetery:
                  1936 July 16
                  Research made by A. L. Cole

Cemetery Location:  “The Shore”, the Foster place is located just off of the 
                    Spainville Road.
                    Nottoway County, Virginia


DATE:

Before 1800.

OWNERS:

This place was first owned by Shore, possibly Henry Shore.
I cannot find out exactly what years they lived there, but is must have been 
before 1800.

The Fosters lived there after the  Shores did and each have a cemetery there.

Landon P. Jones of Crewe, Virginia, present owner. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

There is not house on this place.  It having burned years ago.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The Foster burying ground is back of the garden and covered with periwinkle.  It 
has a wire fence around it.  No tombstones and the appearence of a wilderness.

The Shore burying ground is some distance back of the location of the remains of 
the house, in the edge of the woods.  It was enclosed with a four foot brick 
wall, one foot thick.  Within the brick wall are two slabs, one in the left hand 
corner, the other in the opposite right hand corner.  There are no signs of 
other graves there yet.  I am told there were certainly other graves within the 
wall and that just on the outside is the grave of a trusty old slave.

The following inscriptions are found:


Sacred in the memory of
Eliza Epes Shore
Wife of Henry E. Shore
born October 1, 1804
departed this life July 24, 1842
This heavy loss to her husband and only child
is her eternal gain.
Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.
Savior of men, whose fond voice
Shall wake this slumbering dust.
Teach me to look beyond the tomb
On The, and for my trust.


Sacred to the memory of
Mrs. Louisa Jones Shore
who was born October 23, 1801
and departed this life in the hope
of the gospel May 5, 1823
This stone is erected as a token of the 
affection by her husband, Robert Shore.
Her flesh shall slumber in the ground,
Till the last trumpets joyful sound,
Then burst the chain with sweet surprise
And in her Saviors, image rise.





SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Court Records, Clerk’s Office, Nottoway County, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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