PITTSYLVANIA CO., VA - CEMETERIES – Old Goggin’s Home Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Old Goggin’s home:
                  1937 July 21
                  Research made by Mabel Moses

Cemetery Location:  9 miles west of Chatham, Virginia, on Route #57, thence 3.6 
                    miles south on Route #750; thence .6 mile west on Route 
                    #813.  House on north side of road.
                    Pittsylvania Co., Virginia


DATE:

About 1850.

OWNERS:

Thomas S. Jones        about 1850
Samuel C. Jones              1850
Pleasant M. Goggin
  and Wm. F. Good            1853
Pleasant M. Goggin           1855
R. H. Thompson               1902 to present. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

The cemetery is only a short distance from the old log body house of Pleasant M. 
Goggin.  It is enclosed by an iron fence and is kept in good condition.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


The following inscriptions were found on the tombstones:


Pleasant M. Goggin
son of S. and J. Goggin
Jan. 1, 1820
Married to N. Stone Jan. 17, 1850
to A. Gilbert Dec. 23, 1879
died June 16, 1901


N. Stone Goggin
daughter of Ed. & N.D. Stone
June 29, 1833
March 26, 1872


George B. Goggin
May 29, 1869
July 21, 1871


Robert M. Goggin
Sept. 14, 1860
July 1, 1879


William
son of P. & N.S. Goggin
Sept. 22, 1857
Mar. 17, 1930


Bettie P. Goggin
Mar. 29, 1866
Mar. 8, 1930



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mr. R. J. Thompson, Chatham Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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