PITTSYLVANIA CO., VA - CEMETERIES – Tate Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Tate graveyard:
                  1937 Mar. 17
                  Research made by Lona Dalton

Cemetery Location:  6 miles east of Gretna, Virginia, on Route #40, .25 mile 
                    north on Route #692, on the east side of the road.
                    Pittsylvania Co., Virginia


DATE:

1807.

OWNERS:

Tate family. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

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HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inscriptions on graves:


Marie Louise Tate
wife of W.G. Tate
Born Sept. 25, 1840
Died Sept. 7, 1915
She has done what she could


Edwin L. Burroughs
Born Nov. 29, 1873
Died May 15, 1897


In memory of
Mrs. Emily M. Brown
Born  Aug. 25, 1825
Died June 27, 1909
I am the resurrection and the life he that believeth in me though he were dead 
yet shall he live. And whomsoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.


Edward R. Monroe
born Apr. 24, 1856
Died Oct. 4, 1832
[NOTE:  One of the two above dates are incorrect.  The transcriber does not know 
which one.]


To the memory of
Richard Whitehead
Born May 1, 1807
Died May 19, 1851


In memory of
Miss P. J. Whiteheart
Born Nov. 10, 1845
Died Nov. 5, 1912


Sallie A. Burroughs
Born May 10, 1843
Died Aug. 1, 1927


E. P. Burroughs
Born 1837
Died Feb. 28, 1889


Ida Tate
wife of E. R. Monroe
born Nov. 29, 1858
Died Nov. 1888


Capt. W. C.  Tate
born Oct. 3, 1827
died 18, 1921


In memory of
Eliza C. Whitehead
Born 9th of July 1814
Died 4th Mar. 1850


Sacred to the memory of
John R. Brown
born 23rd Oct. 1822
died Nov. 1845


To the memory of
Mildred
Consort of John E. Brown
died Mar. 20th 1850
aged about 72 years
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord


Sacred to the memory of
Susan  Brown
was borned 20th day of April 1820
and died June 1836


Sacred to the memory of
John E. Brown
who died 9th Sept. 1843
aged 60 yrs.
Jesus can make a dying bed feel soft as downy pillows and while on his breast 
lean my head and breathe my life out sweetly there.




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