In the spring of 2009, surveyors were invited by Mrs. Mary Kincheloe to her home and the family cemetery, located on Kincheloe Road in Clifton, Virginia. The original plantation was named More Hill. The cemetery is cared for with respect and beautifully landscaped. There are several burials of infants, with simple stones marked “BABY.” Two [...]
In the spring of 2009, the surveyors visited this cemetery on Henderson Road, a busy road near Clifton. They noted the encroachment of suburban development upon the cemetery, which has eight markers and some unmarked graves. It is covered by leaves and limbs, but is easily distinguishable as a cemetery.
John W. Elgin, who farmed [...]
The cemetery was located at the intersection of Guinea Road and Little River Turnpike (Route 236). In the 1860s, Horace Gibson and Moses Parker, freed black slaves, had purchased land near the intersection of today’s Prosperity Avenue and Little River Turnpike. Together they owned and operated a blacksmith shop there. Oral tradition related that children [...]
At the March 1, 2010 meeting, Lynne Garvey-Hodge presented “Weeping Weeds & Veils” – Victorian Mourning Customs, an entertaining and informative one-person character enactment and discussion of mourning customs in our area in the early 1900s.
