W of Cumberland on Oak Hill Rd., Cumberland, Virginia. County/parish: Cumberland.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 25, 1980. NRIS 80004186.
1 contributing object.Also known as:
Charles Irving Thornton (January 20, 1841 – March 12, 1842) was an American infant from the state of Virginia. His tombstone, located in Cumberland State Forest in Cumberland County, Virginia, is listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places as one of only two gravestones in the world, and the only one in the United States, known to exist with an epitaph by Charles Dickens.
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