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

Written Accounts

1902-07-30, Richmond Times; boulder arrives to mark Elizabeth Van Lew’s grave in Shockoe Cemetery
1902-07-31, Richmond Dispatch; Van Lew memorial not yet placed in Shockoe Cemetery – if the grave is bricked up, it will be placed directly above the grave, if not, it will be at the head of the section
1902-08-03, Richmond Dispatch; memorial stone has been placed on Elizabeth Van Lew’s grave – no ceremony. Names the Boston friends behind the project
1902-08-03, Richmond Times; criticism of the verbiage of Van Lew’s memorial stone and her wartime career, by “A Confederate” who claimed to have known her personally
1902-08-27, Hawaiian Star (Honolulu); column from Hawaiian newspaper describing the memorial marker and wartime career of Elizabeth Van Lew
1902-09-05, Richmond Dispatch; Tredegar and Armory lot in Shockoe Cemetery is not being used (gives precise area) and city threatens to seize it back.
1908-05-08, Clinch Valley News (Jeffersonville, Va.); Miss Van Lew’s house to be a sanitorium – the Virginia Club has left. Highly detailed account of her biography and career. Notes that her grave extends north and south in Shockoe Cemetery owing to lack
1910-07-11, Richmond Times-Dispatch; first “motor car funeral” in Richmond to be held at Shockoe Cemetery
1910-11-03, Alexandria (Va.) Gazette; the Van Lew mansion “is soon to disappear” – Richmond to purchase the property and build “a modern public school”
1911-06, Harper's Monthly Magazine, pp. 86-99; Beymer, William Gilmore. "Miss Van Lew."

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