Notebook of gravestone inscriptions in Albemarle County, Va., 1935.

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Notebook of gravestone inscriptions in Albemarle County, Va., 1935.

The notebook contains gravestone inscriptions from many local community, church and family cemeteries in Albemarle County, Va., and a few scattered ones in Orange, Louisa and Fauquier counties. Loose material in the notebook includes correspondence regarding a D.A.R. gravemarker for Revolutionary war soldier Isaac Hardin; and notes on some stolen gravestones of the Sowell family. There is also a speech given to the Albemarle County Historical Society and the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors on behalf of the D.A.R. describing old homes she knew in her childhood including Monticello, Fauncey Hill, Colle, Tufton, Auburn Hill, and advocating the renaming of the road from Milton to Monticello for Jack Jouett.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Monticello (Va.)

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Fauncey Hill (Albemarle County, Va. : Dwelling)

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Auburn Hill (Albemarle County, Va. : Dwelling)

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Albemarle County Historical Society (Va.)

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Tufton (Estate : Albemarle County, Va.)

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Jouett, Jack, 1754-1822

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Grayson, Jennie Thornley, 1870-1966

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Albemarle County, Va., genealogist. From the description of Papers of Jane Thornley Grayson, 1924-1968. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647824556 Historian and genealogist. From the description of Grayson genealogical collection [manuscript], 1728-1950 (bulk 1927-1950). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647869309 ...

Colle (Albemarle County, Va. : Dwelling)

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