PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Bryant Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Bryant at Waverly:
                  1937 June 16
                  Research made by Jennie S. Harrison

Cemetery Location:  .2 mile east of Prince George, Virginia, on Route #37; 
                    thence 3.6 miles southeast on Route #616; thence 30 yards 
                    south of Route #616.
                    Prince George Co., Virginia


DATE:

1822, date of oldest grave. [marker]

OWNERS:

This graveyard is on property once belonging to Rev. Thomas B. Bryant.  It was 
inherited by his children, and in all deeds, after being sold out of the family 
on May 10, 1872, it is reserved for the Bryant family.

DESCRIPTION:

This Bryant graveyard is a plot of ground sixty by sixty feet, in an open field.  
It is very unkept, and has been allowed to grow up in honeysuckle, briers and 
large trees.  In the middle there stands a willow oak, which measures seventeen 
feet and four inches in circumference.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


In Memory of
Rev. Thos. B. Bryant
Died March 31, 1841
in the 63rd year of his age
For more than 39 years he was a follower of Christ.  And for more than 23 years 
a parish minister of his word in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace. 
Psalms 37-37


In Memory of
Mrs. Sarah
wife of Rev. T. B. Bryant
Born Sept. 28, 1779
Died Dec. 9, 1822
Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God


SACRED
(a large oak emblem)
To the memory of
Richard W. Bryant
who departed this life Apr. 23, 1880
Age 29 yrs. 5 mo. 16 days
Our beloved is gone but not forgotten.
How frail life’s dearest tie,
Those best beloved how soon they die.
A few brief hopeful years are fled
And each fond household moans it’s dead
Oh! unto us the boon be given
To meet our loved one now in heaven.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

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