PETERSBURG, VA - CEMETERIES – Hughes Cemetery ----¤¤¤---- Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Hughes graveyard: 1937 Nov. 30 Research made by Bettie B. Powell Cemetery Location: In Petersburg, Virginia, on 123 Burch Street, on the east side, between East Bank and Taylor Streets. Petersburg, Virginia DATE: About 1800. OWNERS: Original unknown. Martha Cooper Hughes in 1814 William H. Wilcox sold it to Edgar Powell in 1915 Edgar Powell is the present owner in 1937 DESCRIPTION: The Hughes graveyard was on the west side of the yard to the dwelling when Burch Street was opened, and the graveyard was cut off and is now on the west side of the site, across the street, and east of a negro Public School Building. This graveyard is in a deplorable condition; stones are broken off and thrown away and only two depressions remain. There is an old mulberry tree near the depression of the graves. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: When the water pipe was laid for the Negro Public School Building, the bones and parts of coffins were unearthed and were removed to Blandford Cemetery. The present owner said that there were only three graves, those of: James Roland Mrs. Laura Hughes Roland Robert Roland, their son who was killed in the explosion of the Fire Works. SOURCES OF INFORMATION: Informants: Edgar Powell and his wife, Mrs. Edgar Powell Petersburg, Virginia Court Records: Clerk’s Office of Dinwiddie County, Virginia Deed Book 4, page 228 Deed Book 86, page 366 ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Joan Renfrow NOTICE: I have no relationship or further information in regards to this family. ___________________________________________________________________