Pinewood Cemetery

Front: Pinewood Cemetery, also known as Weeks Cemetery, began as a family burial ground associated with the plantation owned by James Dickson Weeks (1804-87). Both Weeks and his wife, Elizabeth Ardis Weeks (1815-93), have prominent headstones in the cemetery. By the mid-1950s the Weeks Cemetery was filled and the cemetery was expanded, with new burial plots added to the east. Reverse: The Weeks plantation household included both white and enslaved African American members. Local tradition holds that enslaved people were buried just to the east of the original Weeks Cemetery. A 1956 plat, drawn when the cemetery was expanded, denotes a “Colored Cemetery” between the Weeks plot and the modern portion of Pinewood Cemetery. All of the African American burials are unmarked.