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==== Cemetery  ====
==== Cemetery  ====


Several of the old graves at the parish cemetery are described at [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2332073&CScntry=4&CSst=48&CScnty=2838&CSsr=61& Find A Grave].  
Several of the old graves at the parish cemetery are described at [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2332073&CScntry=4&CSst=48&CScnty=2838&CSsr=61& Find A Grave].
 
The Virginia State Library discussed Petsworth Church Cemetery in a survey of graves published in 1959, but did not mention any legible gravestones.<ref>''Epitaphs of Gloucester and Mathews Counties in Tidewater Virginia through 1865'' (Richmond, Va.: Virginia State Library, 1959), 118.</ref> {{FHL|388829|item|disp=FHL Book 975.53 V3e}}.<br>


==== Parish History  ====
==== Parish History  ====

Revision as of 16:04, 9 January 2012

United States  Gotoarrow.png  Virginia  Gotoarrow.png  Petsworth Parish

History[edit | edit source]

Petsworth Parish has served Gloucester County, Virginia. The parish church was called Poplar Spring Church.[1] 

Founded[edit | edit source]

Boundary[edit | edit source]

Resources[edit | edit source]

Cemetery[edit | edit source]

Several of the old graves at the parish cemetery are described at Find A Grave.

The Virginia State Library discussed Petsworth Church Cemetery in a survey of graves published in 1959, but did not mention any legible gravestones.[3] FHL Book 975.53 V3e.

Parish History[edit | edit source]

Parish Records[edit | edit source]

Parish registers do not survive.

Vestry Books[edit | edit source]

Websites[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Poplar Spring Church, The Historical Marker Database
  2. Freddie Spradlin, "Parishes of Virginia," VAGenWeb, accessed 29 January 2011; Hening's Statutes at Large; Emily J. Salmon and Edward D.C. Campbell Jr., The Hornbook of Virginia History (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1994).
  3. Epitaphs of Gloucester and Mathews Counties in Tidewater Virginia through 1865 (Richmond, Va.: Virginia State Library, 1959), 118.