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Chaplain Family Cemetery Virginia Beach, VA
The cemetery sits off Princess Anne Road about 100 yards into the middle of a large field. There is a farm road, large enough for a car to drive, running from the driveway of the house located at 1660 Princess Anne Road into the field. The road passes the cemetery and ends in an area of outbuildings that was once the original home place. The location is the east side of Princess Anne Road south of the Downtown Pungo intersection of Indian River and Princess Anne Road. This cemetery is near the Bell family cemetery, on the opposite side of the road. Photographed January 9, 2005 |
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of the graveyard people lived in the house in front of it.
There was a big old house behind the graveyard right where
the first building is located. I have abstracts of all the
deeds to the property there with names like Land, Chaplain,
Caffee, Capps and Fentress. In 1906 Mr. John Fentress
bought the land. His son who is 85 years old owns the land
now. I believe his nephew farms it today. There was a lady
from Hanover Co, VA, near Richmond who came to Sandbridge
every year and requesting that Garland Fentress to sell it
to her which he finally did. She had it taken apart and
reassembled in Hanover Co about 15-20 years ago. The
building directly behind that first building I spoke of is
the kitchen for the old house. Also there is a log cabin
behind that. None of us are sure what it was used for but
some think it was slave quarters. Not sure though. Also
the out house is there and another building. 
