PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Hatch and Temple Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Hatch and Temple graveyard:
                  1937 Aug. 4
                  Research made by Jennie S. Harrison

Cemetery Location:  4 miles northwest of Disputanta, Virginia, on Route #460; 
                    thence 6 miles southwest on Route #638,  .4 of a mile east 
                    of Route #638.
                    Prince George Co., Virginia


DATE:

1825.

OWNERS:

The property on which this graveyard is located was owned by William Thomas 
Temple, inherited by his widow Jane Brownley and their children, Mollie, William 
E., Wade H., Essie, Thomas and Callie, who sold it to Eddie T. Hair, the present 
owner, May 22, 1908. [1937]

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is located in an open field, to the rear of the house.  The fifty 
by thirty-five foot plot is surrounded with an iron fence.  There are three 
boxwood trees, several cedars and a heavy growth of periwinkle.  The sunken 
spots make it evident that many others have been buried here other than the ones 
which have markers.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inscriptions:

Wade H. Temple
Born Aug. 7, 1868
Died Dec. 29, 1908
Not my will but thine be done.


William Thomas Temple
Born Aug. 25, 1829
Died January 8, 1907


In Loving Remembrance of
Hugh
son of W.H. & M. Temple
Dec. 12, 1897
Mch. 6, 1898
Budded on Earth to bloom in heaven.


To the memory of
Caledonia Mary Temple
wife of Col. Wm. T. Temple
Died in Prince George Co., Va. June 7, 1883
in her 46th year


In loving remembrance of
Martha E.
wife of John H. Hatch, Sr.
Born Oct. 8, 1825
Died Mch. 25, 1874
Life without thee Mother seems cold and dark to me. How much of joy and 
brightness I’ve lost in losing thee.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Court Records, Clerk’s Office:
Prince George County, Prince George, Virginia
Deed Book – Vol. 52 page 48

Tombstone Inscriptions

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