Montevideo Cemetery
Ashland, Hanover County, Virginia, USA
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Get directions Between the South Anna River and Rt. 641, west of Rt. 1
Ashland, Virginia, USACoordinates: 37.80770, -77.47887 - Cemetery ID:
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Add PhotosLocation is an estimate based on location as described by the Genealogy Project and an uploaded video by an observer...
This cemetery has many obvious graves that are unmarked with depressions or marked by field stones.... it looks to be rather large and perhaps a plantation cemetery. Any further documentation or photos would be appreciated.
"The Family of Coghill Continued" by Dr. William Hawes Coghill, published
1956, page 135. This is an excerpt of a letter written by Carrie Coghill
(Millicent Ellett Coghill was her father's mother) to her niece Mary Coghill
Strickler dated March 2, 1928:
"You know my father's mother died in 1833 in Virginia. She was buried
in the family cemetery at her father's house. The cemetery was very close
to the back of the house and was like a lane with a row of boxwood trees
(they are always green in Virginia) on each side. Each tree marked the head
or the foot of a grave. The trees were large when I was there the fiftieth
year after her burial [1883]. Probably no other markers were ever placed
there. It was about twenty years after the war when I was there and many
who had been in good circumstances before the war still had a struggle to
keep their families in even common comforts, so nothing of that kind could
be done. I have a vision of that lane before my mind, it seems, as plain
nearly as I saw it. Of course, the younger generation only lived there then
and they couldn't tell me which was my grandmother's grave."
The author of the book wrote that the homestead is reached by turning west
from Highway 1 about three miles north of Ashland, Virginia. A gravel lane
leads to the large house. It is speculated that the house was built about
1732 by the Darracott family. The above-mentioned boxwood trees are long
gone.
Location is an estimate based on location as described by the Genealogy Project and an uploaded video by an observer...
This cemetery has many obvious graves that are unmarked with depressions or marked by field stones.... it looks to be rather large and perhaps a plantation cemetery. Any further documentation or photos would be appreciated.
"The Family of Coghill Continued" by Dr. William Hawes Coghill, published
1956, page 135. This is an excerpt of a letter written by Carrie Coghill
(Millicent Ellett Coghill was her father's mother) to her niece Mary Coghill
Strickler dated March 2, 1928:
"You know my father's mother died in 1833 in Virginia. She was buried
in the family cemetery at her father's house. The cemetery was very close
to the back of the house and was like a lane with a row of boxwood trees
(they are always green in Virginia) on each side. Each tree marked the head
or the foot of a grave. The trees were large when I was there the fiftieth
year after her burial [1883]. Probably no other markers were ever placed
there. It was about twenty years after the war when I was there and many
who had been in good circumstances before the war still had a struggle to
keep their families in even common comforts, so nothing of that kind could
be done. I have a vision of that lane before my mind, it seems, as plain
nearly as I saw it. Of course, the younger generation only lived there then
and they couldn't tell me which was my grandmother's grave."
The author of the book wrote that the homestead is reached by turning west
from Highway 1 about three miles north of Ashland, Virginia. A gravel lane
leads to the large house. It is speculated that the house was built about
1732 by the Darracott family. The above-mentioned boxwood trees are long
gone.
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- Added: 18 Sep 2015
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2590737
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