PITTSYLVANIA CO., VA - CEMETERIES – William H. Shelton Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, William H. Shelton graveyard:
                  1937 Feb. 16
                  Research made by Mabel Moses

Cemetery Location:  22 miles southeast of Chatham, Virginia, at “Laurel Grove” 
                    on Route #659, south side of Route #659.  From Chatham, 
                    Virginia, go south on Route #20 to Big Oak, Virginia, thence 
                    on Route #729, thence east on Route  #659 to “Laurel Grove”, 
                    Virginia.
                    Pittsylvania Co., Virginia


DATE:

1824.

OWNERS:

William H. Shelton  prior to 1824-1829
Banister Anderson            1829-1854
Alfred Anderson              1854-1907
Mary Anderson Jones
(Wife of Robert Jones)       1907-1933
George Anderson              1933-1937

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is enclosed with an iron fence, and kept in excellent condition.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


Sacred to the Memory of
Mrs. Frances Shelton
Consort of Wm. H. Shelton
Born November 30th, 1788
Departed this life November 28, 1824
Aged 35 yrs. 11 mos. 28 days
Her last words were
How happy I feel in the arms of Jesus
How sweet I feel in the arms of Angels
Jesus made her dying bed feel sweet as downy pillows are
While on his breast she leaned her head
and breathed her life out sweetly there.


William A. Hightower
Born Feb. 17, 1843
Died of a wound rec’d at Chancellorsville
C.S.A.
May 23, 1863


Mary T.
daughter of Joshua & Mary T. Hightower
Born Jany. 18, 1861
Died Sept. 1, 1884


Sallie H.
daughter of Joshua & Mary T. Hightower
Born April 9, 1849
Died Sept. 7, 1865


Joshua Hightower
Born Feb. 21, 1806
Died Feb. 12, 1863


Sacred to the memory of
Jane Washington
daughter of Joshua & Mary T. Hightower
Born Nov. 10, 1846
Died Nov. 2, 1857


Mary Thomas Hightower
Wife of Joshua Hightower
daughter of Banister & Elizabeth Anderson
Born Dec. 28, 1823
Died January 17, 1851


Sacred to the memory of
Bettie Anderson
Born Sept. 18, 1857
Died Dec. 5, 1905


George T. Anderson
Born April 5, 1859
Died Oct. 19, 1887


Emma Va.
daughter of Alfred Anderson
Born April 14, 1869
Died Mar. 26, 1885


Banister Anderson
Born May 17, 1798
Died Mar. 28, 1854


Elizabeth Thompson
wife of B. Anderson
Born April 30, 1799
Died July 1, 1860


Samuel Harrod
son of Alfred & V.S. Anderson
Born Dec. 7, 1849
Died Oct. 5, 1867


Virginia Susan
wife of Alfred Anderson
Born Jan. 4th 1833
Died May 24, 1890


Alfred Anderson
Born Mar. 29, 1827
Died Mar. 28, 1908


Dr. William P. Anderson
Born Mar. 7, 1875
Died April 3, 1897


James A. Jones
Born Aug. 10, 1886
Died Jan. 15, 1910


Mary Anderson Jones
wife of Robert J. Jones
June 24, 1864
Oct. 13, 1933


Robert J. Jones
Born April 26, 1851
Died Feb. 24, 1899
Gone but not forgotten



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  George Jones, Chatham, Virginia

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