Stanton Family Cemetery in Virginia - Find a Grave Cemetery

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Get directions Brooks Hall Rd
null, Virginia 23004 United States

Coordinates: 37.65635, -78.39508
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From the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: "The Stanton Family Cemetery... is an exceptionally well-preserved, African-American, rural cemetery. This family cemetery is notable for its approximately thirty-six graves, most marked with slate head and foot stones. These irregularly shaped slabs of local Buckingham slate mark the graves of at least four generations of the Stanton family... The approximately 4,400-square-foot cemetery is located about 30 feet east of State Route 677 on nearly level ground with good drainage... Its layout features six rows spaced from one to five feet apart and varying in size from two to nine irregularly spaced graves. Most graves have both head and footstones and two children's graves are identified by their small size. All are oriented on an east-west axis... It is possible that members of the Trent family, another antebellum free black family who lived nearby and who married into the Stanton family, may have been buried in the Stanton Family Cemetery... The Stanton Family Cemetery retains twenty-one rough-cut, plain, slate markers. One is lightly engraved, but oral history and the writing style indicate that it is a recent inscription... Fieldstones mark eight graves and marble military gravestones mark the graves of three World War I veterans. "