PITTSYLVANIA CO., VA - CEMETERIES – Captain W. W. Womack’s Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Captain W. W. Womak’s graveyard:
                  1937 Mar. 25
                  Research made by Mabel Moses

Cemetery Location:  8.8 miles east of Chatham, Virginia, on Route #57.  Thence 
                    .2 mile north on Route #702.   The graveyard is on the west 
                    side of the road.
                    Pittsylvania Co., Virginia


DATE:

1849.

OWNERS:

Captain W. W. Womack            1849
Womack descendants              1938

DESCRIPTION:

This family graveyard is enclosed by a rock wall and is in a rather dilapidated 
condition; undergrowth, vines and bushes of all kinds have taken possession of 
it.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


Capt. W. W. Womack
Born March 15th, 1794
Died Nov. 26, 1849


Martha J. Womack
Born Oct. 10, 1804
Died Feb. – 1884
She was a most self sacrificing and exemplary Christian


There are a few other graves in this small graveyard, but these are the only two 
that have inscriptions on markers, the others have just small plain marble slabs 
and old field rocks at the head and foot.




SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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