PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Rawlings and Pettway Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Rawlings and Pettaway graveyard:
                  1937 Dec. 16
                  Research made by Jennie S. Harrison

Cemetery Location:  1 mile southeast of Carson, Virginia on Route #623 west side 
                    of road.
                    Prince George Co., Virginia


DATE:

Prior to 1860

OWNERS:

This graveyard is on an estate which was owned by John Pettway in 1843.  It was 
next owned by William Cain, and is now the property of the Cain descendants. 
[1937]

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is in an open field about fifty yards south of the old Pettway 
home.  The plot is fifty by sixty feet, containing one tombstone, one walnut 
tree, one cedar tree and marks of many graves.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inscription:


To the memory of My Aunt
Rebecca Rawlings
Died July 24, 1860
aged 72 years
Erected by Mrs. M. J. Browdee

Others known to have been buried in this graveyard are:

John Pettway and his wife and their grand-daughter Fannie Turner and her husband 
William Cain.

There are others buried here, names unknown.




SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  Thomas Leonard, Carson, Virginia
             Miss Lettie Belsches, Carson, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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