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Greetings
The Halifax County Cemetery books give scant information on locations of the
cemeteries listed.
Someone has been kind enough to take the time to send me instructions on how
to reach the Oakland Cemetery in Scottsburg, Va (the books only provide it's
location as Scottsburg, Va .)
I think this is a great idea for those wishing to know more precisly where a
cemetery of interest to them is located, and if they wish, directions on how
to get there.
The directions sent to me follow:
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Heading east from state route 360 towards Scottsburg on state route 344
you drive through the town and as you exit the town you take the left fork,
state route 720. Oakland Cemetery is just a short distance out of town and
is on the left side of the road. The entrance is marked by 2 brick pillars.
The left has a stone with the cemetery name and the year 1894. The right
pillar has the names of the founders.
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I think this is a great idea !
With this in mind I am asking any of you guys that have knowledge of
directions to reach any of the Cemeteries in Halifax County, Va. to send them
to me, and I will try to preserve them for those who need the info now or in
the future.
I will post the cemeteries 10 at a time for a short while to see if it works.
If you or someone you know can give directions to any of them, please send
the directions to me.
If the idea dies, I tried.
First 10 Cemeteries.
CEM# NAME LOCATION
001 AVERY FAMILY CEMETERY---- Hwy. 832, Meadsville va
002 SNEED FAMILY CEMETERY---- Hwy. 601, High Hill area
003 BELLE VIEW ----------------------- Has not been located. Info from
Barksdale genealogy
004 BELLEVUE ---------------------- Hwy 729, South Boston Va.
005 BLACK WALNUT ------------------- Hwy. 600, north of Clover, Va.
006 HOWERTON FAMILY ------------- Hwy. 718 near Denniston, Va
007 BLOOMSBURG ---------------- Hwy. 58 east near Turbeville.
008 BLUE CEDARS --------------------- Hwy. 360, near Halifax, Va.
009 BRADLEY/JONES/EPPERSON Hwy. 643 near McKendree Church.
010 BREWER-TUCKER FAMILY ---- Hwy. 703 near Glenwood U. M.C.
Greetings,
I have vols. 1 and 2 of George Calvin Waldreps
"Halifax County (Virginia) Cemeteries."
These 2 vols. contain the names and locations of over
300 cemeteries located in Halifax County Virginia.
The books contain inscriptions from gravestones found in these 300 plus
graveyards. Information containing surname, given name, date of birth, date
of death, etc., was copied from the graves
Mr. Waldrep stated in Vol. 2 that he had info on about 80 more cemeteries in
Halifax Co, that he did not get to cover, so these two books do not cover all
cemeteries in Halifax Co Va.
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I also have a booklet :
"Tombstone Inscriptions taken from Private Cemeteries
In Halifax County, Virginia vol. 1"
Compiled by Kenneth Harvey Cook.
the date on the booklet is November 1969.
The booklet is 40 pages long, and contains info on about 54 cemeteries.
The cemeteries tend to be small.
In this booklet, I found about 9 cemeteries not covered in George Calvin
Waldreb IIIs "Halifax Co. (VA) Cemeteries" books.
I will do surname lookups.
In order to not clog up this list for those not interested,
I will not answer requests posted to this list.
Please, send your requests to me at:
lchand3835(a)aol.com
Larry
Searching for descendants of Cynthia Chappell born c. 1871 in Talladega County, AL to William M. Chappell & Mary Ann
Norred. She may have married a Mr. Godfrey and moved to Tallapoosa County (Alexander City), AL where she had many relatives. Would appreciate any info.