YORK COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Western Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Western Cemetery:
                  1936 Oct. 9
                  Research made by Carrie Roberta Hawkins

Cemetery Location:  Near Messick, Virginia, on west side of road and down a lane 
                    about 150 yards, and about .5 mile above “Amoy’s” Wharf.
                    York Co., Virginia


DATE:

1794.

OWNERS:

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DESCRIPTION:

It is enclosed and a large gate at the entrance.  A few years ago there was 
added about a fourth of an acre.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


This cemetery is very old.  On one stone the inscription:
M. F. 54 – 1794 is to be seen on this stone which is flat, not a slab, and the 
54 is supposed to mean that the man was fifty-four years old when he died.


This man was carried to the cemetery in an ox cart, the stone was placed at the 
head and a little twig placed at the foot; which grew to be a large mulberry 
tree, but was cut down about fifteen years ago [1936].


Other inscriptions are:


Jane Amory
born February 24th 1823
died June 29th 1865


John Wesley Hopkins
born October 10th 1846
died May 25th 1864


Bunah Forrest
April 3, 1858
October 1, 1863



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

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