NOTTOWAY COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Green Church Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Green Church and cemetery:
                  1936 Mar. 9
                  Research made by A. L. Cole

Cemetery Location:  Almost opposite “Hamlin Tavern” stood Southern Chapel or 
                    Green Church.
                    Nottoway County, Virginia


DATE:

About 1740.

OWNERS:

Bristol Parish Vestry.

DESCRIPTION:

(blank)

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

On October 26, 1740, the vestry of the Bristol Parish ordered that the “Southern 
Chapel” be built at the Hurrcane, nearest the best water.  Green’s Chapel was 
one of the first Episcopal churches in the section.  Here services were held for 
a number of years with the rector, Parson Wilkerson, who had married in this 
county, was unfortunate enough to have a former wife from England appear on the 
scene.  This caused such sensation in his flock that further services were 
abandoned.  The Presbyterians later used the building for their worship, until 
it was burned in 1827.  The origin of the fire was unknown until an old colored 
woman confessed on her death bed that she did it, because “those church people 
would not let her keep a dipper at her well.”  The site of this old church is 
now occupied by the house of Mr. Pryer Jones, the sheriff of Nottoway County.

Old Saint Luke’s Cemetery. (this was Green’s Chapel) was located adjoining the 
church on north side of Jordan Hungtown road.  Also back of Pryer Jones’ house.  
This once cemetery is very dilapidated only a few graves with markers remain.  
Most of the bodies have been taken to the Blackstone cemetery.  Just recently 
three graves have been moved and one a child known to have been over one hundred 
years old.   This was a grave with an iron fence around it in which was a grave 
with a marker with the following inscription:

Lieutenant Colonel James _. Gilliam
Ninth Virginia Infantry
C.S.A.





SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Miss Mattie Epes, Blackstone, Virginia

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

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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