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


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Roseland:
                  1937 Apr. 5
                  Research made by H. E. Rorer

Cemetery Location:  Nottoway County, Virginia


DATE:

1811 (home built)

OWNERS:

Elisha Dickinson, 1811
Colonel William Purnell Dickinson, 1874
William Duprey Dickinson, 1874 to present. (1937)

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

“Roseland” has never been out of the Dickinson family and is now (1937) occupied 
by a grandson of the builder.  It was named by Colonel Purnell Dickinson for his 
third wife, who was Miss Rosamond Smith of Lunenburg County.

Back of the Roseland house in the garden we find the Dickinson cemetery.  This 
seems to be characteristic of the old families, to bury their dead in the 
garden, the idea seems to be to keep them as near the old home as possible.  On 
either side of the gate entering the garden are two very large boxwoods twenty 
feet tall and branching out to sixty feet in circumference.  A walk leads on to 
the cemetery, which has recently been enclosed with a wall of granite blocks.

It seems to have always been well kept.  We find the following inscriptions:

Our Father
William Purnell Dickinson
Born September 2, 1810
Died October 6, 1874
He rejoiced believing in  God


Our Mother
Rosamond
wife of William Purnell Dickinson
Born June 20, 1833
Died September 3, 1896
Looking unto Jesus





SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  William Duput Dickinson, present owner. (1937)

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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