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1. SUBJECT:

The Irvine Graveyard. (Abandoned)

2. LOCATION:

Two miles west of Bridgewater, east of Warm Springs Pike, Virginia.

3. DATE:

Unknown.

4. OWNERS:

Mrs. V.L. Miller present owner of the farm.

5. DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is abandoned and now being farmed over in an open field on Mrs. V.L. Miller’s farm. It was formerly fenced and kept in good condition by the Irvine family, who lived, in earlier days, on "The Clem Irvine" farm adjoining the present Mrs. Miller’s farm. In early Virginia history, the Irvine family was very prominent, socially and financially, in this section, and the present Mrs. L. Miller’s farm originally belonged to the Irvines, then being owned by V.L. Miller’s grandfather and later by his father, Samuel F. Miller, and now owned by the widow, Mrs. V.L. Miller and her heirs.

The markers were very large flat sand stones, lying flat, and covering the graves, but all have been removed, buried, or destroyed, and nothing remains but a single piece of marble lying in a fence corner with the word "IRVINE" on it, which I am told marked the grave of one "Irvine", who came east on a visit many years ago, and died here and was the last one buried in this grave lot.

6. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inscriptions destroyed.

7. ART:
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