PITTSYLVANIA CO., VA - CEMETERIES – Wood & Craft Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Wood & Craft cemetery:
                  1937 Nov. 1
                  Research made by Mattie S. Meadows

Cemetery Location:  Go 4-9/10 miles west from Chatham, Virginia, on Route #57 
                    thence 3-8/10 miles north (right) on route #799; thence 3-
                    1/10 miles west (left) on route #694; thence 5/10 miles 
                    right on private road leading to the old Wood home and 
                    cemetery.
                    Pittsylvania Co., Virginia


DATE:

1867.

OWNERS:

Jim Tom Wood.  Present owners of property surrounding the cemetery.  Cemetery 
rights reserved by the Craft Family and their descendants. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

This little cemetery is in excellent condition.  It is enclosed by a rock wall 
four and one half feet high.  Large flat rocks fitted together, so neatly that 
the corners are perfectly square, no mortar was used in building this rock wall.  
There are several graves on the outside of this rock wall that have no markers, 
just old field stones at the head and foot, these are said to be the graves of 
slaves.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


In memory of
Louise B. Craft
Born June 28, 1816
Died July 28, 1867


In memory of
George Craft
Born July 20, 1805
Died Jan. 27, 1868


Thomas P. Wood
Born Jan. 2, 1814
Died March 25, 1895



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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