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206    PITCHFORD, THOMAS (Dr.)

Location - off Davis-Bugg Rd (SR-1512) at the intersection with Otis Clark Rd (SR-1641).

Coordinates: 36d 17m 57.8s N; 78d 03m 59.5s W Click here for Online Maps

Directions: From Warrenton courthouse on Hwy 158 E Bus, travel 0.5 mile and turn right onto Hwy 58. Travel 4.2 miles to Liberia and bear right onto Hwy 58. Travel 4.4 miles and turn left onto SR 1512 (Davis-Bugg Rd). Travel 1.7 miles to the intersection of SR 1512 and SR 1641 (Otis Clark Rd). The cemetery is on the left of SR 1512 and 20 yards from the road. Twenty graves marked with fieldstones were noted. Race-White.

Note: Dr. and Mrs. Pitchford had 14 children, several of whom died as infants or young children. Dr. Pitchford's parents are buried here.

Pvt Robert T. Pitchford was killed when the train that was transferring hundreds of prisoners from Point Lookout in Maryland to Elmira, N. Y. ran head-on into a coal train near Shohola, Penn. The Confederate dead were buried in a common grave in Pennsylvania and then moved many years later to a common grave in Elmira, N. Y.

1. Burnett, Infant   (b. Unknown - d. Unknown)
No dates
2. Burnett, Unknown (Mrs.)   (b. Unknown - d. Unknown)
No dates
3. Pitchford, Matilda Hinton Cheek   (b. Unknown - d. 20 Jul 1881)
Married March 27, 1833
4. Pitchford, Robert Tynes   (b. 5 Oct 1835 - d. 23 Jul 1865)
PVT - Richard's Co - Miss - Lt Arty CSA (Government marker). Note: Descendant gives death date as July 15, 1864.
5. Pitchford, Sterling T.   (b. 5 Oct 1840 - d. 29 Jun 1862)
NC - PVT - Co F - 12 Inf CSA (Government marker)
6. Pitchford, Thomas Jefferson (Dr.)   (b. 13 Jun 1810 - d. 23 Nov 1883)