PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Moore & Lee Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Moore & Lee graveyard:
                  1937 Nov. 17
                  Research made by Jennie S. Harrison

Cemetery Location:  3.5 miles northeast of Carson on Route #301; thence 1 mile 
                    southeast on Route #35.  On south side of Route #35.
                    Prince George Co., Virginia


DATE:

1834, approximately.

OWNERS:

J. R. Moore owned this estate on which the graveyard is located.  Then L. L. 
Lee, and now owned by the descendants of L. L. Lee. [1937]

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is located in an open field about fifty yards south of the Moore 
home.  It is a plot forty by fifty feet, surrounded by a brick wall and iron 
fence.  In it is planted two large boxwood and shrubs.  There are twelve graves 
and the graveyard is nicely kept.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inscriptions:


Littleton Leath Lee
Born Mar. 18, 1815
Died Oct. 10, 1883
Resting til the resurrection day


Frances Peebles Lee
Born Sept. 30, 1816
Died Nov. 14, 1900
She hath done what she could


Richard Adams Lee
Born Dec. 27, 1858
Died June 8, 1860
A sunbeam from the world has banished.


Mable Livingstone Lee
daughter of H.L. & Lucy Harrison Lee
Born Sept. 6, 1881
Died Sept. 23, 1902
Asleep in Jesus


Augusta C. Lee
Feb. 22, 1855
May 29, 1931


Benjamin W. Lee
Dec. 7, 1852
May 5, 1930


Andrew F. Lee
March 3, 1855
March 27, 1930


Charles Nicholas Lee
Jan. 17, 1849
July 21, 1925
He being dead yet speaketh. Heb. 11:4


Others known to have been buried in this graveyard are the following:


Susie E. Lee on Dec. 2, 1936
And three children of J.R. and Rebecca Clements Moore, between 1834 and 1850.
Emily Moore age 16
Mary Moore age 14
Joseph Moore age 11



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Miss Hesta Lee, Stony Creek, Virginia

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