SPOTSYLVANIA:  CEMETERY RECORDS – “BEL AIR” CEMETERY

Contributed by:  Joan Renfrow

NOTICE:  I have no relationship or further information in regards to this 
family.  

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Bel Air:
                  1936 Nov. 24
                  Research made by Mildred Barnum

Cemetery Location:  1.3 miles northwest of Lewiston, Virginia on Route #612.
                    Spotsylvania County




There is a burying ground near the house with many graves, but few old stones.  
Members of the family buried there after the War Between the States have their 
stones, but there are only a few before that time and they have the following 
inscriptions:

To the memory of
Dr. Richmond Lewis
who on the 31st day of July
in the year 1831 departed from
this transitory life in the
57th year of his age.  This stone 
is erected by his afflicted widow,
Margaret B. Lewis


In memory of
Walter Raleigh Daniel
who died on September 17th 1828


The reason for there being so few tombstones is that it was so hard to get them 
to places so remote.  Families living on the larger rivers were able to get 
tombstones more easily.  As an example of this, the Daniels of “Crows Nest” all 
had tombstones, because their place was on the river.

The Daniels and Lewis’ intermarried and one of them died at “Bel Air” and a 
stone was erected to him.