P.S. Reed is my name, Richmond is my station, protestant is my belief, Heaven my expectation and when I am dead and all my bones are rotten this little book will tell my name when I am quite forgotten. P.S. Reed”
THE RIVERVIEW CEMETERY COMPANY was incorporated by a group of local businessmen on December 29, 1892 with a mission to establish a cemetery “near and convenient” to the City of Charlottesville and properly ornamented with “trees, shrubbery or flowers.” In February 1892 the Company made its first land purchase of 27.95 acres from the Charlottesville Land Company for $6,987.50. Riverview continued to amass small quantities of land over the years from neighboring lot owners, residents and the Albemarle Golf Club on its western border. Local residents Henry Clay Marchant, Mrs. M.J. Burgess and J.S. Barksdale purchased the first burial plots on December 6, 1894. Seventeen more were sold between 1894 and 1899, several to board members and officers of the Cemetery Company.–Lara Day Kozak
Any Algonquian language speakers that can provide a rough translation of this name? Grave is in the Congressional Cemetery. How did this individual end up in SE D.C.?
