"E.D. Watkins/44NT84 is a family cemetery is located approximately 200-300 meters east of Ridge Road on land now owned by Virginia Tech. The cemetery is overgrown, but
easily identifiable as measuring approximately 30 by 90 meters and containing 56 eastwest oriented grave depressions (Plate 22). There is no fence enclosure or markers. The cemetery was recorded as site 44NT84 in the James River Institute for Archaeology's 2002 archaeological survey of this area where 10-15 grave depression were noted (Tyrer and Laird 2002: 22). James River conducted further investigation of the cemetery by
carefully removing the top soil with a backhoe scraper. The grave features were noted to be very rectangular in shape leading the investigators to conclude that the graves had not been exhumed and were therefore undisturbed. No further excavation was conducted
(Laird 2003). James River recommended the site be considered not eligible for the National Register of Historic Places but that it be avoided by all ground disturbing activities (Tyrer and Laird 2002:22)."

"This cemetery is noted to have been one (Cemetery A) of two marked as "relocated" in Tract G-105 owned by E.D. Watkins et ux. in 1944. There is no evidence remaining of
the second cemetery (Cemetery B) located a few hundred meters to the west. Godburn's list notes 10 unidentified individuals as having been relocated to Butterwood from a
cemetery in this tract but does not distinguish which cemetery was relocated (Godburn 1977: G-2). Cemetery B may have been included with the Butterwood relocations but it
is more likely that the burials from Cemetery B were African Americans relocated to Gills Bridge Road Cemetery."

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.

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