Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, August 16, 1993                   TAG: 9308160089
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C4   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: BUCKINGHAM                                LENGTH: Short

BLACK CEMETERY NOW A VIRGINIA LANDMARK

The cemetery in northeastern Buckingham County is the first black family-owned cemetery in the state to be placed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places.

"I have roots. I have a place in history, as well as my ancestors," Renee Ingram said at Saturday's dedication.

Nancy Stanton - Ingram's great-great-grandmother - bought 46.5 acres of land in Buckingham in 1853. She was the first free black to own land in the area and is believed to have been the first person buried in the cemetery later that year.

The national register report, based largely on Ingram's research, notes that while many black cemeteries may have been developed in rural Virginia, "the locations of many have been forgotten." - Associated Press