Whites Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery (Fort Barfoot)
McKenney, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, USA – *No GPS coordinates
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Add Photos"The remains of this Methodist church and cemetery are located in the controlled access danger area approximately 50 meters south of Lake Road between Cherry Tree and
Pelham Roads (Plates 13 and 14). The graves have been relocated to Butterwood Church and the remaining depressions and concrete grave borders are overgrown but easily identifiable. The cemetery measures approximately 100 by 150 meters (including the church) and probably held about 78 east-west oriented burials. Approximately 8
fieldstone markers and 1 concrete grave enclosure with an inscription remain (Table 7). Although the date of the earliest burial is unknown, the latest is possibly around 1940. This cemetery was mentioned in the William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research report by Clifton Huston et al. and in Doug Coleburn's The Japanese
Attacked…And Then Came Pickett (Huston et al 1994:124; Coleburn 1998). It is within the boundaries of the archaeological survey of the controlled access area that is ongoing at the time of this report (Fort Pickett Cultural Resource Program's project #2004.20)."
"A previous church, also called Whites Chapel, is noted to have been located in the same area on early 19th century maps (Hargrave n.d. in Huston et al. 1994:27). The original
Whites Chapel was a major component of the 19th century community of Westboro that included a Grange Hall and several family homes (Huston et al. 1994: 126). Lena
Bourne Ritchie (the daughter of George Bourne) described the Church in an interview and noted that "Our church-White's Chapel Methodist—a typical small, white painted
one-room country church with an accompanying cemetery—was also in the Pickett area, and all the graves there had to be moved. My great-grandmother and grandfather on my
father's side were buried there, as well as my baby brother who was born dead, and those graves were moved to the Butterwood Church cemetery near Darvills" (Coleburn 1998: 44)."
"The cemetery was marked as "relocated" in Tract H-282 owned by the Trustees of Whites Chapel Church in 1941 (see Table 1 and Figure 1). It is included on Godburn's list of relocated cemeteries where a total of 122 individuals are noted as having been moved to Butterwood, Lakeview and Brace Church cemeteries (Table 8) (Godburn 1977: G-4). During an archaeological survey in 1994 Huston recommended the church site and cemetery as potentially eligible to the National Register of Historic Places (Huston et al.
1994:126)."
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Fort Pickett Historic Cemeteries
Brunswick, Dinwiddie & Nottoway Counties, Virginia
Fort Pickett Cultural Resource Management Project 2005.06
Prepared by;
Conservation Management Institute
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Cultural Resources Program
200 W 10th St, Pickett Park, Blackstone, VA 23824
Author: James G. Parker - February 2007
"Works referenced by:
Beverly A. Boyko, Wayne C.J. Boyko & Katherine E. Sutton; Terry Clouthier; Doug Colebum; Pamela Hurak; Clifton A. Huston, Charles M. Downing & Anne S. Beckett; Mary Cecilia Godburn; Matthew Laird; Michelle MacCarthy; Carol D. Tyrer, Jen Green & Matthew Laird; Len Winter, Brad Botwick & Debra A. McClane; Wayne Stith; Isham E. Hargrave.
***AVAILABLE at the Brunswick, Dinwiddie & Nottoway County Public Libraries
"The remains of this Methodist church and cemetery are located in the controlled access danger area approximately 50 meters south of Lake Road between Cherry Tree and
Pelham Roads (Plates 13 and 14). The graves have been relocated to Butterwood Church and the remaining depressions and concrete grave borders are overgrown but easily identifiable. The cemetery measures approximately 100 by 150 meters (including the church) and probably held about 78 east-west oriented burials. Approximately 8
fieldstone markers and 1 concrete grave enclosure with an inscription remain (Table 7). Although the date of the earliest burial is unknown, the latest is possibly around 1940. This cemetery was mentioned in the William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research report by Clifton Huston et al. and in Doug Coleburn's The Japanese
Attacked…And Then Came Pickett (Huston et al 1994:124; Coleburn 1998). It is within the boundaries of the archaeological survey of the controlled access area that is ongoing at the time of this report (Fort Pickett Cultural Resource Program's project #2004.20)."
"A previous church, also called Whites Chapel, is noted to have been located in the same area on early 19th century maps (Hargrave n.d. in Huston et al. 1994:27). The original
Whites Chapel was a major component of the 19th century community of Westboro that included a Grange Hall and several family homes (Huston et al. 1994: 126). Lena
Bourne Ritchie (the daughter of George Bourne) described the Church in an interview and noted that "Our church-White's Chapel Methodist—a typical small, white painted
one-room country church with an accompanying cemetery—was also in the Pickett area, and all the graves there had to be moved. My great-grandmother and grandfather on my
father's side were buried there, as well as my baby brother who was born dead, and those graves were moved to the Butterwood Church cemetery near Darvills" (Coleburn 1998: 44)."
"The cemetery was marked as "relocated" in Tract H-282 owned by the Trustees of Whites Chapel Church in 1941 (see Table 1 and Figure 1). It is included on Godburn's list of relocated cemeteries where a total of 122 individuals are noted as having been moved to Butterwood, Lakeview and Brace Church cemeteries (Table 8) (Godburn 1977: G-4). During an archaeological survey in 1994 Huston recommended the church site and cemetery as potentially eligible to the National Register of Historic Places (Huston et al.
1994:126)."
Source;
Fort Pickett Historic Cemeteries
Brunswick, Dinwiddie & Nottoway Counties, Virginia
Fort Pickett Cultural Resource Management Project 2005.06
Prepared by;
Conservation Management Institute
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Cultural Resources Program
200 W 10th St, Pickett Park, Blackstone, VA 23824
Author: James G. Parker - February 2007
"Works referenced by:
Beverly A. Boyko, Wayne C.J. Boyko & Katherine E. Sutton; Terry Clouthier; Doug Colebum; Pamela Hurak; Clifton A. Huston, Charles M. Downing & Anne S. Beckett; Mary Cecilia Godburn; Matthew Laird; Michelle MacCarthy; Carol D. Tyrer, Jen Green & Matthew Laird; Len Winter, Brad Botwick & Debra A. McClane; Wayne Stith; Isham E. Hargrave.
***AVAILABLE at the Brunswick, Dinwiddie & Nottoway County Public Libraries
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- Added: 28 Aug 2010
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2367912
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