SPOTSYLVANIA:  CEMETERY RECORDS – PENNY’S TAVERN 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, Penny’s Tavern:
                  1937 Jan. 8
                  Research made by Mildred Barnum

Cemetery Location:  2.9 miles west of Snell, Virginia, on Route #209, northeast 
                    corner of intersection of Route #209 and Route $648.
                    Spotsylvania County




Date:   About 1811

Owners:
1811 James Wigglesworth to Lincefield S. Penny.  Deed Book “S” page 342
Penny’s heirs to George W. Trice. Deed Book “FF” pages 219,245,1835
Trice to Wigglesworth, M. 1836.  Deed Book “GG” page 53


This was located on the road that led to old Spotsylvania Courthouse, about 2 
miles from the courthouse so it was an important inn.

There is an old burying ground on the tract but no tombstones.  People say they 
have heard their ancestors say that Captain Penny, his wife and daughter are 
buried there.

The following incident was told Mrs. Wilson by her grandmother, Mrs. William 
Chew Chewning, of Orange County.  Mrs. Chewning was the mother of the noted 
Confederate spy, Marcus Chewning.

Mrs. Chewning’s great grandfather, Preacher Clew, stopped at Penny’s for the 
night. After going to his room to retire he was sent for by some rowdy men who 
were also stopping there, to come down and join them in a game of cards.  Upon 
refusing to do this, they took him forcibly from his room and dragged him down a 
flight of stairs.  He died from the effects of this rough treatment at their 
hands.

Informant:  Mrs. A.V. Wilson, Fredericksburg, Va.