Shockoe Cemetery
Information about Shockoe Cemetery in Richmond, VA during the Civil War

Written Accounts

1866-09-13, notes on cemetery interments from Cholera at Shockoe and “Mechanics” (colored) Cemeteries, notes that the Freedmen’s Bureau uses Mechanics Cemetery for burials of “deceased negroes” (Chimborazo)
1870-12-31, Richmond Dispatch; Memorial services for Erasmus Ross, former clerk of Libby, held in Monumental Church; Ross killed in the Spottswood fire
1880-12-28, Richmond Dispatch; keeper of Shockoe Cemetery and son shot by noise-making boys – son will probably lose an eye
1883-07-25, Richmond Dispatch; tickets of admission now required to visit Shockoe Cemeteries, with the exception of lot-owners and their families
1888-12-16, Richmond Dispatch; "Our Richmond Mobs;" details on the Bread Riot, the evacuation mob, and others
1892-02-18, Richmond Dispatch; editorial appeal to restore Shockoe Cemetery “to its former beauty”
1892-11-04, Richmond Times; Money being appropriated to rectify the “abominable condition” of Shockoe Hill Cemetery. The superintendent of the Almshouse is responsible for the cemetery with only two workmen to help. “Old Tredegar” section is one of the fe
1893-04-08, Richmond Times; John Miller, keeper of Shockoe Cemetery, struck by “an electric car” and “badly hurt”
1893-05-21, Richmond Dispatch; letter to the editor praising clean-up efforts at Shockoe Cemetery – advocates for more
1896-01-04, Richmond Planet; interesting description of the controversy surrounding the burial of “an old black mammy” in a white family’s plot in Shockoe Cemetery

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