PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Kirkham Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Kirkham graveyard:
                  1937 Oct. 4
                  Research made by Jennie S. Harrison

Cemetery Location:  1.2 miles north of Disputanta, Virginia, on Route #618; 
                    thence .8 mile northwest on Route #629; thence .1 mile south 
                    of Route #629.
                    Prince George Co., Virginia


DATE:

About 1800.

OWNERS:

Mrs. Robert E. Scales. [1937]

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is located about fifty yards east of the residence, in the corner 
of an open field.  The plot is about sixty feet square, fenced in and neatly 
kept.  There is a lone cedar tree and one tombstone marking two graves.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inscription:

Martha Stainback
wife of William Kirkham
Born in Prince George Co., Va. (this place) April 2, 1828
Died in Clarksville, Va. Nov. 28, 1901
MOTHER
and
William Kirkham
Born in Petersburg, Va. Dec. 4, 1817
Died in Petersburg, Va. July 13, 1893
FATHER


Others known to be buried in this graveyard are:

Joshua Simmons (about 1800) and his daughters I & II
I. Ann Simmons Harrison and her husband
   William Thomas Harrison, and his cousin
   James William Harrison

II.  Martha Simmons Stainback and her husband
     Peter Stainback, and their son
     “Doll” Stainback.
     (Martha S. & Peter Stainback are parents of the Martha Stainback to whom 
      there is a marker).



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Miss Susie Figg, Prince George, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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