PITTSYLVANIA CO., VA - CEMETERIES – Fleemon Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Fleemon graves:
                  1937 Apr. 9
                  Research made by Mabel Moses

Cemetery Location:  .25 mile north from Danville, Virginia, on Route #29, thence 
                    northwest on Route #41, 4.5 miles, thence west on Route 
                    #719, 1 mile, thence south on Route #863, 3 miles. The grave 
                    is on the west side of Route #863, located between the 
                    colored school and the colored church.
                    Pittsylvania Co., Virginia


DATE:

1840

OWNERS:

Unknown

DESCRIPTION:

There are four persons buried in this one grave, which is mounded up high, about 
three feet, covered over with concrete.  There is a slab at one end with the 
following inscription:

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


Sacred to the Memory of
Elizabeth Fleemon, aged 43 years
Eliza Fleemon, aged 23 years
Articia Fleemon, aged 5 months
Who was supposed to be murdered by James L. Lanier 24th December, 1840.
After all was murdered but William, he caught Lanier around the legs and cryed 
have mercy and don’t kill me but Lanier would not forbear.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

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