PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Bland Cemetery ----¤¤¤---- Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Bland burying ground: 1937 Oct. 28 Research made by Elsie D. Hamlin Cemetery Location: 2 miles east of Hopewell, Virginia, on Route #10; thence 1.2 miles north on Route #36; thence 10 feet east. Prince George Co., Virginia DATE: 1859, date of oldest grave. [marker] OWNERS: 1875 – F. P. Leavenworth from Chas. Gee and Anna Bland Leavenworth (Anna Bland Leavenworth was a daughter of the late Theoderick Bland). 1926-The present owner, Susanna Poythress Bland Temple, from Mary Leavenworth Riddle and James Riddle and Light Witherspoon Tessier, Eugene Louis Tessier, Helen Leavenworth Smith, R. S. Blackburn Smith, children of F. P. Leavenworth and Eliza C. Leavenworth (deceased). DESCRIPTION: This graveyard is eight-nine feet wide and one hundred and seventy feet long and is enclosed with an iron fence. It is grown-up in bushes and honeysuckle. There are a number of graves but only two have tombstones. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: This graveyard was a part of the Old Jordan’s Point Plantation, but is now known as the Bland Burying Ground. The Bland’s were a prominent family of Prince George County. In memory of Theoderick Bland, M.D. Born Sept. 24, 1804 Died Feb. 28, 1859 Sacred to the memory of William Eppes Bland Born Jan. 8, 1828 Died July 16, 1877 SOURCES OF INFORMATION: Court Records, Clerk’s Office: Prince George County, Prince George, Virginia. Deed Book – Vol. 88 page 273 Deed Book – Vol. 76 page 616, 617 Tombstone Inscriptions Visit by worker. ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Joan Renfrow NOTICE: I have no relationship or further information in regards to this family. ___________________________________________________________________