PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – “Maylena” Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Family cemetery of Maylena:
                  1937 June 15
                  Research made by Bessie Thompson

Cemetery Location:  4 miles southeast from Farmville, Virginia, on Route #460; 
                    thence 4 miles southwest on Route #135; thence 1 mile 
                    northwest on Route #636.  Cemetery .2 mile west on private 
                    road leading to cemetery.
                    Prince Edward Co., Virginia


DATE:

1811, date of oldest grave [marker]

OWNERS:

Unknown owner when cemetery was first started.
J. J. Gilliam   --- to 1937, present owner [1937]

DESCRIPTION:

This cemetery is located on the south side of the site of “Maylena”, in the 
middle of a large field of clover, and covers about one-fourth of an acre.  
There is no fence, only a few shrubs growing in the old cemetery.  There are 
right many old graves, but only one with an inscription on the marker.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


A large flat marble slab about six feet long and two feet ten inches wide, 
resting flat on the ground, inscribed:


SACRED to the Memory of
Elizabeth Ennes
Who died December 17th, 1811
in the 56 year of her age



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mr. J. J. Gilliam, Farmville, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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