PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Sarah J. Sydnor Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Sarah J. Sydnor family graveyard:
                  1937 July 13
                  Research made by Elsie D. Hamlin

Cemetery Location:  1.6 miles east of Reams, Virginia, on Route #606; thence .4 
                    mile south on Route #622; thence .1 mile west on private 
                    road.
                    Prince George Co., Virginia


DATE:

1839.

OWNERS:

This graveyard is located on the farm of Hunter Young. [1937]

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is about ten feet square.  It is marked by old cedar trees and 
covered with ivy.  There are two tombstones, but a number of graves without 
stones.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Mr. Joseph Wood, the oldest resident in the vicinity, says that the only people 
he knows of to be buried here within the past seventy years are the ones with 
tombstones.  The inscriptions are as follows:

Meet me in Heaven
Sarah J.
wife of L. R. Sydnor of Dinwiddie County
Born in 1839
and died June 17, 1878
in her 39th year
Erected by her loving children


Brigham
son of A. F. and Mary A. Young.
Born in Prince George County Aug. 23, 1887
Died Aug. 25, 1887
Our darling hath gone before to greet us on the blessed shore.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mr. Joseph Wood, Petersburg, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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