Watkins Family Cemetery (Fort Barfoot)
Blackstone, Nottoway County, Virginia, USA – *No GPS coordinates
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Add Photos"This family cemetery is approximately 100 meters north of Wilcox Road and 1500 meters west of the Nottoway/Dinwiddie county line in Fort Pickett's controlled access danger area. The location is overgrown, but easily identifiable as an approximately 12 by 16 meter area with 15 east-west oriented grave depressions and 5 fieldstone markers
(Plate 23 and Table 11). There are only 2 fence posts remaining of what was once probably a barbed wire fence. The date of the earliest burial is likely around 1849 based
on the date of death for William Watkins (Nottoway County Will Book 1: 233-234). This area was included in the Fort Pickett Cultural Resource Program's 2005.01 archaeological survey of the Range 20 and Wilcox Road project area (Boyko et al in press)."
"The cemetery is directly associated with the remains of an historic farmstead dating from the early 19th to the early 20th century. An inscription ("WLW & BLW 1925") located on the concrete enclosure constructed around the well, combined with deed research information (Table 12) link this cemetery with the Watkins family. The cemetery was marked as "relocated" on Tract H-256 (Cemetery A) owned by William H.Y. Moore in 1944 (see Table 1 and Figure 1). It is noted on Godburn's list of burials relocated to Butterwood Church where 17 individuals are listed: Mrs. B.L. Watkins, Mrs. W.G. Watkins, William G. Watkins, Mr. B.L. Watkins, Elenor Gertrude Watkins, Mr. William Watkins, Mrs. William Watkins, A.N. Reams, Stanley Reams, Mrs. A.N. Reams, Winston Watkins, Mr. C.L. Watkins, Mrs. C.L. Watkins and 4 Watkins Infants (Godburn 1977: G-8)."
"* The following excerpt is cited from William Watkins' Will (Nottoway County Will Book 1: 233-234). Its inclusion serves to indicate the possibility of African-American
slave burials located within the general vicinity of the historic farmstead/plantation. The 1944 Fort Pickett Real Estate Map notes another cemetery—designated "Cemetery B"—
located approximately 533 meters to the southeast that may have served as the slave cemetery (see Moore Cemetery). Furthermore, it provides insight into land transfers
noted in later deeds."
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
"This family cemetery is approximately 100 meters north of Wilcox Road and 1500 meters west of the Nottoway/Dinwiddie county line in Fort Pickett's controlled access danger area. The location is overgrown, but easily identifiable as an approximately 12 by 16 meter area with 15 east-west oriented grave depressions and 5 fieldstone markers
(Plate 23 and Table 11). There are only 2 fence posts remaining of what was once probably a barbed wire fence. The date of the earliest burial is likely around 1849 based
on the date of death for William Watkins (Nottoway County Will Book 1: 233-234). This area was included in the Fort Pickett Cultural Resource Program's 2005.01 archaeological survey of the Range 20 and Wilcox Road project area (Boyko et al in press)."
"The cemetery is directly associated with the remains of an historic farmstead dating from the early 19th to the early 20th century. An inscription ("WLW & BLW 1925") located on the concrete enclosure constructed around the well, combined with deed research information (Table 12) link this cemetery with the Watkins family. The cemetery was marked as "relocated" on Tract H-256 (Cemetery A) owned by William H.Y. Moore in 1944 (see Table 1 and Figure 1). It is noted on Godburn's list of burials relocated to Butterwood Church where 17 individuals are listed: Mrs. B.L. Watkins, Mrs. W.G. Watkins, William G. Watkins, Mr. B.L. Watkins, Elenor Gertrude Watkins, Mr. William Watkins, Mrs. William Watkins, A.N. Reams, Stanley Reams, Mrs. A.N. Reams, Winston Watkins, Mr. C.L. Watkins, Mrs. C.L. Watkins and 4 Watkins Infants (Godburn 1977: G-8)."
"* The following excerpt is cited from William Watkins' Will (Nottoway County Will Book 1: 233-234). Its inclusion serves to indicate the possibility of African-American
slave burials located within the general vicinity of the historic farmstead/plantation. The 1944 Fort Pickett Real Estate Map notes another cemetery—designated "Cemetery B"—
located approximately 533 meters to the southeast that may have served as the slave cemetery (see Moore Cemetery). Furthermore, it provides insight into land transfers
noted in later deeds."
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: 4 Sep 2010
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2368921
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