Before stopping by Spring Hill my first destination in Lynchburg last weekend was Old City Cemetery. Longtime readers here probably recall some of my previous excursions to OCC, which I consider to be one of Virginia’s loveliest burial grounds.
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| The Langley Plot |
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| Dr. R.B. Gaines, one of Lynchburg’s first doctors |
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| “Here lies the body of Bransford Vawter, Lynchburg’s First Poet” |
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| I haven’t been able to find a marker for Maria Wilson, who died in the 1876 Court St. Baptist Church Tragedy |
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| the entrance to the Confederate Section |
Twenty-nine soldiers who died from smallpox are buried in Old City Cemetery. The location of their graves is unknown, but according to the website they are most likely buried in a row towards the far side of the section and in “Yankee Square.” Most of the northern soldiers were buried among the confederate graves.
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| “In Memory of the Confederate Soldiers Who Died of Smallpox in the Hospitals of Lynchburg During the War Between The States” |
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| To me, it looks like the roots are “holding hands” with the markers. |
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| The Confederate Monument |
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