PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Prospect Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Prospect Cemetery:
                  1937 June 4
                  Research made by Bessie Thompson

Cemetery Location:  .4 mile east of Prospect, Virginia, on Route #133. Cemetery 
                    on north side of road.
                    Prince Edward Co., Virginia


DATE:

1827, date of oldest grave [marker]

OWNERS:

Cemetery.

DESCRIPTION:

The cemetery covers about three square acres, enclosed by an iron fence, with 
two double and one single iron gate.  It is laid off in plots, covered with 
green grass, lilac bushes and shrubbery and a good many old oak and cedar trees.   
There are several hundred graves in this cemetery, but very few prior to 1860.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


A. D. Walker
Feb. 17, 1827
by R.V. Davis


Benjamin F. Sheppard
Born May 7, 1814
Died June 15, 1882


Samuel T. Clark
Born Dec. 2, 1809
Died Nov. 6, 1893
He died as he lived.


In memory of
Elizabeth
wife of Francis Cooks [Cocks ?]
Born Sept. 11, 1819
Died Feby. 25th, 1874
and
Francis Cooks [Cocks ?]
Born Jan. 26, 1819
Died Oct. 18, 1886



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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