Land-Harrison Cemetery
Aragona Village
Romney Lane
This old cemetery had a number of family members from the
Harrison and Land Families buried here in the 1800’s.
Sometime after 1894 and before 1903 this property was sold out of
the Harrison Family. The new owner (Land) did not mind people
visiting the cemetery, however, he did not want any new burials on the
property. Therefore, Harrison family members who died after that time who
had spouses or other family members buried here were not able to be
buried beside them and were buried in other local cemeteries instead.
In the 1960’s Frances C. Griffin surveyed this cemetery.
There were at least 12-14 adult burial plots and a few infant burial plots still visible. The cemetery had two rows with 6-7 plots in each row.
Towards the back of the property there were a few small infant stones, a couple of them were broken with only the last 3 letters of the last name readable as, “son” and “and” (Harrison and Land).
It has long been believed that there are older members of the Harrison and Land families buried here whose stones had already been lost to time by the 1960’s. They are most likely where the playground sits today.
In the fenced in area you will find a marker for
Confederate Veteran, Littleton Waller Tazewell Land, Sr.
Littleton Waller Tazewell Land
1845 – 1908
On October 9, 1864 in Petersburg, VA, at the age of 19 years old Littleton enlisted in Company F, Virginia 6th Infantry, the Seaboard Rifles.
He was captured at Burgess Mil on October 1864.
Littleton took the oath of allegiance on 13 May 1865
and returned to Princess Anne County.
Littleton married first to Eliza T. Burroughs abt. 1878.
Littleton and Eliza had 2 children.
Second marriage abt. 1889 to Thomazine Olivia “Thomie” Wilkins.
Littleton and Thomie had 6 children.
In 1900 Littleton Land along with several others became a founding member of
Princess Anne Confederate Veterans Camp #96.