Cemetery on Jesse Edwards Estate
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Cemetery on Jesse Edwards Estate

Isle of Wight County, Virginia, USA – *No GPS coordinates

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This cemetery is listed in the Isle of Wight GIS Database as Property #19-01-045. It is located ON Property 19-01-047, private property.
This Cemetery shows no signs of headstones, as members of the Isle of Wight Gravesite Task Force and two Turner descendants conducted a field visit on March 5, 2023.
However, Property Records dating back to 1962 as well as current GIS information are evidence of a cemetery. Puzzle pieces of timelines, deeds, oral stories, and personal memories lead to the conclusion that the 1 acre plot as a cemetery predates when John Hayden Edwards owned and ran the farm (1949).
Additionally, the way the Property Records are worded, "Cemetery on Jesse Edwards Estate," leads to the belief that it was not an Edwards family cemetery. Additionally, all the Edwards who lived and worked that land, Benjamin K. and his wife, Henrietta Ellis Edwards, as well as their children and in-laws are buried either in the Ellis/Edwards Cemetery on the Jenkins farm located on Emmanuel Baptist Church Road or in Bethany Cemetery.

Name and dates of ownership of this piece of land:
Edwin Stringfield – sold property in 1841 to Zachariah W. Turner
Zachariah W. Turner 1841-1877
Algernon M. Turner (Son of ZWT) 1877-1886
MW Hearn (Algernon's Father in Law) 1886-1887
CH Hart 1887-1895
BK Edwards 1895- 1913
Henrietta Edwards (wife of BKE)1913-1949
land divided into 3 tracts amongst 3 sons: Alonzo, Tiberius, Jesse Edwards 1949-1975
All three sons had NO heirs.
Everett Doggett 1975-1994
Peter Frank Crocker 1994- present

Conclusion: The reference to a cemetery on the farm contain graves of the Zachariah W. Turner Family.
This cemetery is listed in the Isle of Wight GIS Database as Property #19-01-045. It is located ON Property 19-01-047, private property.
This Cemetery shows no signs of headstones, as members of the Isle of Wight Gravesite Task Force and two Turner descendants conducted a field visit on March 5, 2023.
However, Property Records dating back to 1962 as well as current GIS information are evidence of a cemetery. Puzzle pieces of timelines, deeds, oral stories, and personal memories lead to the conclusion that the 1 acre plot as a cemetery predates when John Hayden Edwards owned and ran the farm (1949).
Additionally, the way the Property Records are worded, "Cemetery on Jesse Edwards Estate," leads to the belief that it was not an Edwards family cemetery. Additionally, all the Edwards who lived and worked that land, Benjamin K. and his wife, Henrietta Ellis Edwards, as well as their children and in-laws are buried either in the Ellis/Edwards Cemetery on the Jenkins farm located on Emmanuel Baptist Church Road or in Bethany Cemetery.

Name and dates of ownership of this piece of land:
Edwin Stringfield – sold property in 1841 to Zachariah W. Turner
Zachariah W. Turner 1841-1877
Algernon M. Turner (Son of ZWT) 1877-1886
MW Hearn (Algernon's Father in Law) 1886-1887
CH Hart 1887-1895
BK Edwards 1895- 1913
Henrietta Edwards (wife of BKE)1913-1949
land divided into 3 tracts amongst 3 sons: Alonzo, Tiberius, Jesse Edwards 1949-1975
All three sons had NO heirs.
Everett Doggett 1975-1994
Peter Frank Crocker 1994- present

Conclusion: The reference to a cemetery on the farm contain graves of the Zachariah W. Turner Family.

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