Aspenvale Cemetery is a historic

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ...

located at Seven Mile Ford,

Smyth County, Virginia Smyth County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 29,800. Its county seat is Marion. History Smyth County was formed on February 23, 1832, from Washington and Wythe counties. The coun ...

. The cemetery consists of three sections, with the most prominent marked by a T-shaped

limestone Limestone is a type of carbonate rock, carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material Lime (material), lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different Polymorphism (materials science) ...

wall and containing the graves of the Preston and Campbell families. It includes the grave of Revolutionary War General William Campbell (c. 1745–1781) and his wife

Elizabeth Henry Campbell Russell Elizabeth Henry Campbell Russell (1749 – March 18, 1825), was a Methodist lay leader from the United States of America who is credited with bringing Methodism to western Virginia and northeastern Tennessee. Early life Russell, who was a sister ...

(1749–1825), sister of

Patrick Henry Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 ld Style and New Style dates, O.S. May 18, 1736une 6, 1799) was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Virginia Conventions, Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty or give m ...

. William Campbell's remains were originally placed in a marble table tomb erected by his son-in-law, General

Francis Preston Francis Preston (August 2, 1765 – May 26, 1835) was an American lawyer and politician from Abingdon, Virginia. He was the son of Col. William Preston of Virginia, served in both houses of the state legislature, and represented Virginia in th ...

(1765–1835) in 1823. It was replaced in 1964. an
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National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 1980.

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* {{National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Smyth County, Virginia