PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Rawleigh W. Hobbs Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Rawleigh W. Hobbs family graveyard:
                  1937 July 22
                  Research made by Elsie D. Hamlin

Cemetery Location:  10 miles south of Petersburg, Virginia, on Route #301; 
                    thence 1.8 miles east on Route #621; thence 3.2 miles east 
                    on Route #638; thence 50 feet north of Route #638.
                    Prince George Co., Virginia


DATE:

1862, earliest date known.  There were several buried here before that date but 
the dates are unknown.

OWNERS:

Peter B. Halligan, Carson, Virginia, is the present owner. [1937]

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is about fifteen feet square and is grown up in bushes and 
honeysuckle.  The graves are marked by cedar trees, but there are no tombstones.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


It is said that the following are buried here:

Susanah Hobbs, date unknown, great-grandmother of Mrs. Susie Hobbs Smith
Col. Rawleigh W. Hobbs, died July 8, 1862
Virginia C. Hobbs, died Sept. 18, 1868
Capt. Peter Thomas Hobbs, date unknown
Edward T. Hobbs, died  Aug. 26, 1863
Adonram C. Hobbs, date unknown



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mrs. Susie Hobbs Smith, 304 Dalton Ave., Petersburg, Virginia
            Whose relatives are buried there.

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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