SPOTSYLVANIA:  CEMETERY RECORDS – “BELLEFONTE” 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, Bellefonte:
                  1936 Dec. 11
                  Research made by Mildred Barnum

Cemetery Location:  Entrance is 3 miles west of Lewiston, Virginia, north side 
                    of Route #601. House is 1.7 miles from main road on private 
                    road.
                    Spotsylvania County




The place was a grant to Capt. John Holladay in 1702 for his service in the 
Virginia Rangers.  It stayed in the same family until after the War Between the 
States.

The following concerning Major Lewis Holladay is quoted from the address of 
Judge Henry T. Holladay on the occasion of the dedication of the Lewis Holladay 
Memorial in 1933.

“Major Holladay served through the Revolutionary War.  He was commissioned 
Lieutenant of the Spotsylvania County Militia by the Virginia Committee of 
Safety, October 5th, 1775.  In 1785 and 1787 he was appointed Captain by 
Governors Henry and Randolph, and Major in 1793 by Governor Lee (The colorful 
Light Horse Harry) and Coroner in the same year, having previously been a 
Justice of Spotsylvania County in 1790.  In turn he was sheriff of the county, 
justice and Overseer of the Poor for many years.  With these employments he also 
followed the business of farmer and planter, owning in this later years, three 
farms, consisting of 1, 795 acres, so that this time was fully and usefully 
employed.”

There is a family burying ground back of the “Bellefonte” house.  It is now 
enclosed with a stone wall but this was put there in 1922.  There is  only one 
tombstone which has the following inscription:

Lewis Holladay
Major Virginia Troops
Revolutionary War
Revolutionary Soldier 1775 – 1783
Placed by Washington Lewis Chapter, D.A.R.


Mrs. J. E. Timberlake has a plot of this cemetery, established in 1755, showing 
the following buried there:

Mary Ann Scott, second wife of Lewis A. Boggs
Dr. Lewis Littlepage Holladay
Alexander Boggs, father of “Parson Boggs”
Rev. Hugh C. Boggs
Nancy Holladay, wife of Hugh C. Boggs
Jane G. Holladay, wife of Dr. L.L. Holladay
John H. Holladay, son of L.L. and Jane G. Holladay
Mrs. Polly Coleman (nee Mary Littlepage)
Betty Lewis Littlepage, wife of Maj. Lewis Holladay
Mildred Boggs, niece of Rev. Hugh C. Boggs
Ann Boggs, sister of Rev. Hugh C. Boggs
Elizabeth Rawlings, wife of L.A. Boggs