PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Dandridge Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Dandridge graveyard:
                  1937 May 14
                  Research made by Jennie S. Harrison

Cemetery Location:  1 mile northeast of Burrowsville, Virginia, on Route #611; 
                    thence 4.5 miles north on Route #600; thence .5 mile west of 
                    Route #600 in a pine forest.
                    Prince George Co., Virginia


DATE:

1760, earliest known date.

OWNERS:

This graveyard is on property belonging to Archibald Cary Harrison.  It was 
inherited by him from his father Archibald Cary Harrison.  Because of lost 
county records I have not been able to trace the owners, but Mr. Harrison says 
that it was originally a part of the Brandon estate.

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard in is a pine forest and heavily covered with undergrowth and 
briers.  The markers, which signify it’s size, are stone posts, nine inches 
square and fifty-eight inches high, with pointed tops, at each corner of a 
ninety foot square plot of ground.  On each post, near the top, is this 
inscription: “I.M.1760”.  The deeply sunken spots are evidences of many graves, 
but the only marker, that can be found, is in the northwest corner of the 
graveyard, it is a flat slab which covers the grave.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


John Dandridge
Late of New Kent  County
Died Jan. 16th, 1799
Age 34

John Dandridge was the son of John Dandridge and grandson of Bartholemew 
Dandridge.  He married Rebecca Jones Minge, a daughter of David Minge, of 
Weyanoke, Charles City County.  They had two children, John and Lucy.  About 
1797 John Dandridige and his family moved from New Kent County to Prince George 
County and lived on a part of the original “Brandon” estate.

The legend is, that this grave is in the graveyard, which was to the rear of the 
original Brandon Church.  If so, it is the only mark left to show the location 
of this old church.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  W. L. Burrow, Disputanta, Virginia

William & Mary College Quarterly, 1912, Vol. 20 page 149.  McKenny Library, 
Petersburg, Virginia.

Tombstone Inscriptions

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