| 1702/00/00 |
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Dated 1702, Richard Yarborough's grave is the oldest marked grave in Blandford cemetery. The handsome wall that enclosed the churchyard in the 1750s is laid in English bond with cap of semicircular coping bricks. |
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| 1819/00/00 |
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City of Petersburg buys the abandoned Blandford Church and four surrounding acres for a cemetery. |
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| 1839/01/26 |
Robert Bolling IV |
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Robert Bolling dies. The Bolling mausoleum is located in Ward A at Blandford Cemetery. |
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| 1850/00/00 |
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Ligon Square fence and gates, a design that appears in the 1858 Wood and Perot catalogue, incorporates a naturalistic vine and tree trunk motif. J T Morris Square has an interesting fence, probably made by Wood and Perot. |
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| 1857/00/00 |
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Carved by Bowie, McCleary and Wright of Petersburg, the Cockade City monument, designed by Seth Heath Jr and erected by Bowie, Right and Sharpe in 1857, marks the grave of Captain Richard McRae, who commanded Petersburg volunteers in the War of 1812. |
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| 1857/00/00 |
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Bolling Mausoleum, a fine Gothic Revival-style structure is built of granite and King of Prussia marble by Bowie, Wright and Sharpe. Cast-iron gate that is most certainly the work of Wood and Perot. |
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| 1858/00/00 |
Col Robert Bolling |
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The remains of Robert Bolling are moved to the Bolling mausoleum in Blandford Cemetery. |
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| 1862/07/31 |
Maj Richard Kidder Meade Jr |
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Richard Kidder Meade, Engineer in the Confederate States Army, dies of a disease in Petersburg, Virginia. |
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| 1864/07/30 |
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Blandford Cemetery is the resting place of Confederate soldiers who died in the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864. |
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Siege of Petersburg |
| 1866/06/09 |
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First Decoration Day service is conducted by the Ladies Memorial Association of Petersburg. The event will become an inspiration for the national observance of Memorial Day. |
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Memorial Day |
| 1868/00/00 |
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Blandford Cemetery is the final resting place for about 30,000 Confederate soldiers who were re-interred between 1868 and 1900 by the Ladies Memorial Association of Petersburg. |
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| 1900/12/29 |
Ryland Randolph Madison |
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Ryland Randolph Madison dies in Cumberland, Maryland. He is buried in Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg, Virginia, in Ward D, Old Ground, Section 14. |
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Marriage of Lucy Addison Sprigg and Ryland Randolph Madison |
| 1927/12/12 |
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Governor William Hodges Mann dies. Buried at Blandford, the 46th Governor of Virginia from 1910 to 1914, was a spy behind Grant's lines during the Siege of Petersburg. |
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Siege of Petersburg |
| 1994/02/06 |
Joseph Cotten |
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Joseph Cotten passes away at age 88. he is buried in Blandford Cemetery. |
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