PORTSMOUTH CITY, VA - CEMETERIES – Wilkins Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Captain Willis Wilkins and family:
                  1937 Mar. 12
                  Research made by Edna E. Hutcheson

Cemetery Location:  8 miles southwest of Portsmouth, Virginia on Route #17 to 
                    Deep Creek, thence east over Canal bridge, thence east on 
                    Route #166 4 miles, thence east on road to Wilkins home .5 
                    mile.
                    Portsmouth, Virginia


DATE:

1757.

OWNERS:

Captain Willis Wilkins original owner.  The present owner, Minor O. Barnes 
bought the farm but the family burial plot was not included in the Deed of Sale.  
The present heirs not known. [1937]

DESCRIPTION:

The plot is about seventy five feet square.  It is in very bad condition, grown 
up with undergrowth and weeds, but the stones are well preserved and very 
beautiful.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


Captain Willis Wilkins
Commander of the Silver Gray from Deep Creek
during the War of 1812
Born Feb. 1, 1757
Departed this life April 4, 1815
58 years old



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  John Merser Willey, Portsmouth, Virginia

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