I think there are a lot of stones there! My Cardwell family has two
family plots. The large, mostly bare area near the front is where the
dead from the Civil War are buried. Imagine being in the hospital
right across the street, watching the burials, and knowing that
cemetery is where you might end up. You didn't go to the newer little
bricked off section beside it, did you? A section in the Jewish
cemetery across the street is for Jewish Confdederate soldiers, the
iron fence around it is amazing, and it is said to be the only all-
military Jewish cemetery in the world, outside of Israel.

Nancy

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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

--Daniel Boone



On Jan 15, 2007, at 8:20 AM, Brent Tarter wrote:

> The Library of Virginia has a microfilm of the interment records for
> Shockoe Cemetery in Richmond.
>
> I recall several summers ago wanting to find a gravestone there to
> ascertain whether it contained life dates, and I got the date of
> burial
> and the section and lot number from the record and went out to the
> cemetery, only to find that there is no grid that identifies
> sections or
> lots and that surprisingly few stones survive except in the central
> portion of the cemetery. After walking over the entire cemetery and
> nearly roasting in the August weather, I found the stone, which had
> only
> year of death . Alas.
>
> But the records are available on microfilm at the Library of Virginia.
>
> Brent Tarter
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