PORTSMOUTH CITY, VA - CEMETERIES – Monumental M.E. Church Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Monumental M.E. Church cemetery:
                  1937 Sep. 9
                  Research made by Sarah F. Moore

Cemetery Location:  Southwest corner of Queen and Dinwiddie Streets
                    Portsmouth, Virginia


DATE:

1834.

OWNERS:

Monumental M. E. Church.

DESCRIPTION:

None.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


Sacred to the Memory of
Jesse Nicholson
Patriot of the American Revolution
A most Exemplary Christian
Forty fie years a Minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church
and
A man loved and venerated for his many virtues
Died 26th September 1834
In the 75th year of his age
Also
To the memory of
Lucy Nicholson
his wife
A Christian adorned with the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit
A friend of the poor and needy
And a wife, worthy of so good a man
Died in peace 22nd Feby 1832
in the 63rd year of her age

Pastor of Monumental Church
1790 – 1791


Sacred to the Memory of
Capt. James Hamilton
A native of Scotland
Born on the 5th of August 1760


Sacred to the Memory of
Edmond Prior
Who departed this life August 3, 1811
in the 28th year of his age
Ah! Who can God’s high counsels read
Who, __ will trust the Christian’s creed
Dare judge a kindred spirit gone
To bow before the Eternal’s throne
That awful hour of pain and woe
Which every parting soul must know
May pure salvations form reveal
And set the dear redeemers seal.
also
Sarah Prior
wife of Edmond Prior
Who died Feby 3rd
Aged 47 years
Leaving two daughters to mourn the loss of a kind indulgent and affectionate 
Mother. 
Why should we mourn departed friends
Or shake off deaths claims
Tis him the voice of Jesus sends
To call them to his arms
The grave of all his saints he blessed
And softened every bed
Where should the dying members rest
But with their dying heads.


(Date illegible but the marker was moved from Glasgow Street site in 1831)
In memory of
Wm. Ball Junr.
of the Winchester Rifle Company
In the service of the United States
(other lines illegible.)






SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Information from Church records.

Tombstone Inscriptions

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