PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Alexander E. Birchett Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Alexander E. Birchett graveyard:
                  1937 July 16
                  Research made by Elsie D. Hamlin

Cemetery Location:  1.3 miles west of Prince George Courthouse, on Route #37; 
                    thence .9 mile south on Route #630; thence about 10 feet 
                    east of Route #630.
                    Prince George Co., Virginia


DATE:

1815, date of oldest grave [marker]

OWNERS:

The earliest date which could be established on the property, due to the records 
having been destroyed during the War Between the States, was 1871 when it was 
sold by S. J. Birchett to George E. Perkinson.  In 1888 it was sold for 
delinquent taxes.  In 1908 it was bought by T. C. Johnson from W. D. Temple, the 
Clerk of the Circuit Court.  In 1909 James West, Sr., bought it and in 1910 he 
died leaving it to his son, James West, Jr.  In 1919 Fannie Temple bought it 
from F. A. Eppes, trustee for James West, and the same year she sold it to 
Joseph Temple.  In 1922 it was bought by Emmett Hines, the present owner. [1937]

DESCRIPTION:

The graveyard is about ten feet square and is grown up in honeysuckle and cedar 
trees.  Only one grave has a tombstone.  The site of the Birchett home is near 
the graveyard.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The following inscription is found on the tombstone:

Sacred to the memory of
Alexander E. Birchett
Of the Petersburg Mexican Volunteers
Captain Archer Company
Who died at Petersburg Jan. 26, 1815
Aged 20 yr. 6 mo. and 2 days


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Emmett Hines, Prince George, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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