Date:  August 2006

Image Number:  CG086cdCG06

Comments:  The Mount Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery is located in Keene, Virginia, just northwest of Scottsville.  The church inherited the cemetery from the Gardner family when they moved to the adjacent land in 1963.  The Gardners had previously used the graveyard as their family cemetery.  As of August 2006, the cemetery contained approximately 107 gravestones.   Many of the graves at the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery are marked by wooden crosses and do not include identification information.  At this time, no information is available about the names of the people buried in those graves.  Also, approximately 12 of the graves with stone markers are either not photographable or illegible.

Directions to Mount Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery from the Scottsville Museum:  Head West on Main Street and take a right onto Valley Street.  Travel North on State Route 20 about 4.5 miles.  Turn left onto Esmont Road, SR712.  Continue straight about one mile until you arrive at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, which is on the right side of the road.  The cemetery is to the left of the church.

Following is the August 2006 listing of the extant gravestones at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery as prepared by Gretchen Calcagni, an intern at Scottsville Museum from the Institute for Public History at the University of Virginia.  Asterisks (*) that appear before names denote veterans. 

Agee, Dashawn
April 1991-May 1991

Agee, George Sr.
1938-2005

Agee, Rev. Joseph Jasper
September 4, 1895-August 9, 1980

Agee, Moses N. Sr.
May 5, 1928-August 25, 2002

*Agee, Nelson
April 14, 1934-April 22, 1996

Agee, Pencie Johnson
June 22, 1900-March 7, 1981

Agee, Ray M.
November 22, 1959-June 29, 1980

Agee, Rosa Lee
July 2, 1939-September 12, 2005

Agee, Virginia G.
December 17, 1927-November 1, 2002

*Agie, Dennis Lee
October 24, 1915-July 21, 1964 WWII

Agie, Lucille H.
September 19, 1907-August 27, 1978

Brown, Benjamin I.
January 25, 1890-January 5, 1968

Brown, Hattie W.
November 17, 1883-June 25, 1962

Carter, Lorenzo
1893-1982

*Fortune, Lovelist Emmett
August 25, 1915-July 5, 1973 WWII

Fortune, Otto Harold
1902-1965

Franklin, John
1969-1993

*Gardner, Benjamin Vandoa
November 10, 1888-November 9, 1959 WWI

Gardner, Charlotte C.
April 7, 1905-April 7. 1942

Gardner, H.
September 22, 1876-August 23, 1892

Gardner, H.S.
August 10, 1882-January 21, 1906

Gardner, Helen A.
March 1, 1886-September 14, 1918.

Gardner, John H.
May 17, 1895-January 8, 1965

Gardner, L.P.
December 18, 1899-October 12, 1924

Gooding, Anna M.
1907-1967

Gooding, Josiah A.
November 11, 1934-September 4, 1985

Gooding, Theodore Eugene
December 1, 1929-January 20, 1986

Gray, Arthur R.
February 9, 1920-August 28, 1976

Gray, Ester M.
1899-1941.

Hartgrove, Maggie Ross
March 12, 1900-June 15, 1985

Howard, Dorothy F.
1928-1969

Jackson, Lora Watson
November 19, 1910-February 12, 1987

*Johnson, Dennis
1895-1952 WWI

Johnson, James N.
August 15, 1923-February 26, 1981

Johnson, Lucinda
Died July 12, 1958, aged 55 years

Jones, Sarah Elizabeth Gardner
Wife of George Jones
January 12, 1891-April 7, 1946

Lowe, Grace M.
January 4, 1921-July 26, 1989

McClenon, Hattie E.
April 2, 1915-September 7, 1983

McClenon, Navasco
March 26, 1905-July 11, 1994

Monroe, Brister Garland
1866-1957

Monroe, Rev. James B.
September 23, 1898-April 2, 1975

Monro, James Jasper
1909-1986

Monroe, Julian J.
1912-1966

Monroe, Martha A.
November 29, 1879-December 7, 1952

Monroe, Theodore Wadsworth
February 19, 1904-August 2, 1977

Mortis, Lucious J.
1895-1988

Mortis, Madeline A.
1910-1988

Nelson, Charles Henry
September 7, 1911-February 15, 1988

*Nelson, Charles N.
November 15, 1944-January 30, 2002 Vietnam

Nelson, Phillip Wyatt
November 28, 1914-July 12, 1962

Richardson, Cornelia P.
1916-1999

Richardson, Lucilia Gardner
Wife of William G. Richardson
September 26, 1880-June 2, 1946

*Richardson, William G.
August 6, 1910-May 31, 1975 WWII

Roberson, Hattie Scott
1879-1960

Robinson, Rev. John

Ross, Christian Deacon
August 23, 1997

Ross, Fred
December 10, 1902-November 19, 1972

Ross, Margaret C.
February 12, 1903-September 2, 1976

*Ross, Robert Lee
September 22, 1920-April 8, 1952 WWII

Scott, Henry Sr.
January 10, 1920-April 2, 2004

Swann, Beatrice G.
September 3, 1891-March 1, 1985

*Swann, George Edward
189?-1978 WWI

Turner, Martha Nell
May 20, 1925-September 6, 2004

*Ward, Edward D.
January 3, 1930-February 11, 2005 Korea and Vietnam

Ward, Julia Nelson
August 22, 1909-January 26, 1989

Ward, Robert Lafayette
August 5, 1931-May 5, 1991

Ward, Rev. Wardell D.
July 15, 1907-August 27, 1967

Ward, Wardell Louis
January 12, 1933-December 21, 2002

Washington, Emma Mae
November 21, 1950-April 30, 1986

Washington, Sadie N.
March 11, 1918-October 26, 1963

Watson, Jennie Johnson
1888-1977

Webb, Hattie Madison
March 9, 1986

Webb, John Rush
October 15, 1911-August 11, 1972

Webb, John Rush Jr.
March 21, 1948-March 23, 1948

Webb, Louise
1907-1989

The gravestone listing of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery was compiled by Gretchen Calcagni in August 2006 as part of Scottsville Museum's ongoing effort to record local church and cemetery records.