PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Alexander Scott Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Alexander Scott family graveyard:
                  1937 Apr. 15
                  Research made by Jennie S. Harrison

Cemetery Location:  2.6 miles southwest of Disputanta, Virginia, on Route #616; 
                    thence 1.7 miles south on Route #627; thence .2 east of 
                    Route #627.
                    Prince George Co., Virginia


DATE:

1882, date of oldest grave. [marker]

OWNERS:

Alexander Scott bought one hundred and twenty-six acres of land from Mrs. Emily 
W. T. Gee, on January 21, 1874.  Ida Eliza Scott inherited her widows dower in 
the property from her husband Alexander Scott, in the division of his estate, on 
April 2, 1902.  By the will of Ida Eliza Scott, dated November 14, 1925, and 
probated in Prince George Court on December 15, 1932, the home site was 
inherited by her son Jefferson Scott, the present owner. [1937]

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is in the edge of a pine forest.  The thirty-five graves in it 
cover a space of about sixty square feet.  It is well kept and each grave neatly 
mounded.  In this graveyard there is a scattering growth of pine, cedar and 
hickory trees.  The only marker is a double vertical marble slab, which marks 
two graves.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


FATHER
(Masonic Emblem)
Alexander Scott
Born 1824
Died Mch. 16, 1882
and
MOTHER
Eliza Scott
Born 1823
Died Nov. 9, 1913
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Court Records, Clerk’s Office
Prince George County, Prince George, Virginia

Deed Book – Vol. 30 page 118
Deed Book – Vol. 44 page 489
Will Book – Vol.  3 page 101

Tombstone Inscriptions

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