Boyd - Crump - Dickerson - Lomax Cemetery in Nesting, Virginia

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Get directions Nesting Road (Rt. 604)
Nesting, Virginia 23079 United States

Coordinates: 37.73742, -76.65256
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This cemetery, located on private property, was remembered in the 1920's by locals as being manicured with many spruce crosses marking the graves of cherished ancestors. With little to no physical evidence marking the graves in modern times, many depressions were present upon observation. An estimation of ~75 persons were buried here with surnames from the Lomax, Dickerson, Boyd, and Crump families of the northwestern part of Middlesex County, known as Nesting. The enslaved persons on Nesting Plantation and of the surrounding community post-emancipation buried their relatives at this location. The owner politely allowed us onto his property in an effort to document this early African American burial ground. Hopefully, efforts will be made in the future to clear the long overgrown burial site.