PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Burwell Aldridge Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Burwell Aldridge family graveyard:
                  1937 Feb. 10
                  Research made by Elsie D. Hamlin

Cemetery Location:  3.5 miles south of Petersburg, Virginia, on Route #301; 
                    thence west on Route #629, 1.9 miles.  Graveyard about 500 
                    yards south of Route #629.
                    Prince George Co., Virginia


DATE:

1827, date of oldest grave [marker]

OWNERS:

On the farm of L. R. Mathews, who bought it in 1919 from Joseph H. Birdsong. 
[1937]

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is in a field and is about twenty-five feet square.  The graves 
are covered with honeysuckle and bushes.  There are a number of graves but only 
two have tombstones.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The inscriptions on the tombstones are as follows:


In memory of
Mary
wife of Burwell Aldridge
Born Dec. 30, 1777
and died Dec. 25, 1827
Aged 50 yr. and 5 days
She was beloved in life, regretted in death and died without an enemy.


In memory of
George R. Aldridge
Born June 12, 1809
and died May 6, 1828
Aged 19 yr. 1 mo. and 6 days



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

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