Adams - Ward Cemetery

Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, USA

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Get directions Mansion Bridge Rd
Altavista, Virginia 24517 United States

Coordinates: 37.13210, -79.24073
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Also known as Ward Mansion Cemetery, Monteflora Cemetery, and Ward's Bridge Cemetery.

This cemetery dates back to the 1700s and is named for the Ward and Adams families who built and restored homes, The Mansion and Monteflora, near the confluence of the Otter and Staunton Rivers.

John Ward, whose name was given to the road he surveyed leading to Lynchburg - "Wards Road" (aka US Hwy 29) - was buried here in 1816.

Also buried here is John Biddle Rutledge who built Monteflora. He married John Ward's granddaughter Lucinda Dillard Ward on the third floor of the Mansion in 1823.

Directions:
Take Riverbend Road from Altavista to Mansion Bridge Road. The graveyard is just a couple hundred yards southwest of the intersection of Mansion Bridge Road and Lark Lane, less than a mile from where Mansion Bridge crosses the Staunton River, due east of where the Big Otter River merges into the Staunton River. The graveyard is hidden behind the cover of trees, but can be seen on aerial maps.

(FYI - Roanoke River is known as Staunton River in Campbell & Halifax Counties)

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