NOTTOWAY COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – “Rural Retreat” Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Graveyard at Rural Retreat:
                  1936 June 23
                  Research made by H. E. Rorer

Cemetery Location:  2 miles southwest of Crewe, Virginia
                    Nottoway County, Virginia


DATE:

Earliest date-1853.

OWNERS:

Colonel John W. Fowlkes.
Mrs. Amanda Lipscomb.

DESCRIPTION:

The grave yard near the house has graves of the Fowlkes family.  Inscriptions copied as follows:


Mary Coleman Fowlkes – 1853

Elizabeth Jane Fowlkes – 1855

Colonel John W. Fowlkes – 1858



HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

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SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mrs. Amanda Lipscomb, Crewe, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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