NOTTOWAY COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – McCullough Tavern Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, McCullough Tavern and McCullough cemetery:
                  1936 Mar. 16
                  Research made by A. L. Cole

Cemetery Location:  .5 mile from Blackstone, Virginia on Route #360, Petersburg 
                    Road, across the road from “Baldy Service Station”.
                    Nottoway County, Virginia


DATE:

About 1840.

OWNERS:

H. McCullough owned and kept it for years.
Later owned by a man named Wade from West Virginia.
Mr. Helen W. Patton, present owner. (1936)

DESCRIPTION:

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HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Tradition says that the old house was the first place court was held in Nottoway 
County.

The old tavern was a stopping place for stage coaches going from Richmond to 
Lunenburg.

McCullough Cemetery, just behind the tavern we find a very delapidated cemetery.  
It shows signs of quite a number of graves, but only three markers are left.


In the memory of 
George H. McCullough
born January 19, 1822
Died May 16, 1871

His wife’s grave is by the side of his, but no marker.

These graves were once enclosed with a brick wall but just enough of the wall 
remains to show that it once was here.





SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  E. L Pettus, Blackstone, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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