PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Ernest Myers Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Ernest Myers family burying ground:
                  1937 May 10
                  Research made by Elsie D. Hamlin

Cemetery Location:  6.5 miles east of Petersburg, Virginia, on Route #36; thence 
                    1.5 miles north on Route #648; thence about .5 mile west of 
                    Route #648, in the woods.
                    Prince George Co., Virginia


DATE:

There are no tombstones and the Family Bible has been misplaced, so the exact 
dates that these deaths occurred are not known, but Ernest Myers, who is buried 
here, owned the land in 1797.

OWNERS:

This graveyard is on the farm of Emmett A. Jackson, who inherited it from his 
mother and she inherited it from her father, Ernest Myers, who bought it in 
1797. [1937]

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard has completely grown up in pine trees.  There are no tombstones 
now, wooden markers were used to mark the graves, but they have rotted entirely 
away.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

It is said that the following people are buried here:

Ernest Myers
Lettie Myers
Billie Myers
Harry Myers
Ben Myers




SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Emmett A. Jackson, Hopewell, Virginia
            Grandson and nephew of the Myers above.

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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