Pinewood Cemetery

Front inscription

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.

African American Cemetery

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.