Fairfax County Q-S Cemetery Records

RATCLIFFE/COLEMAN/HANNA FAMILY CEMETERY

In front of the Marriott Suites Hotel at 13101 World Gate Drive
Herndon, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 4 of the Gravestone Books

The Ratcliffe/Coleman/Hanna Family Cemetery is located about ten yards east of Centreville Road (Route 657) and about 100 yards north of the Washington Dulles Access and Toll Road (Route 267), just south of the town limits of Herndon. The little cemetery now stands in front of the Marriott Suites Hotel at 13101 World Gate Drive in the commercial Worldgate Center development.

The cemetery is the final resting place of Laura Ratcliffe Hanna, a noted Confederate loyalist who is “best known for her exploits in complicity with Colonel John Singleton Mosby, the ‘Grey Ghost’ of the Confederacy whose life she once saved,” according to an article in the 3 January 1990 Herndon Times. Not only did “Miss Laura” warn Mosby of an impending Yankee ambush at Frying Pan Meetinghouse (q.v.), but also she allowed her home to serve as Mosby’s secret headquarters. She was given credit by Mosby for devising a plan “to use a large rock on her property as a post office and meeting place” for his men, according to the Times. It is said that Ratcliffe stashed thousands of dollars, loot from a raid on a Yankee train, beneath a rock on her property, which was not found despite a Federal search. Miss Laura saw that the money found its way to the Confederacy.

Laura Ratcliffe was born 28 May 1836, in Fairfax City, according to the Times. After her father’s death, Laura, her mother and two sisters moved to the Frying Pan area. During the early years of the Civil War, Laura apparently met dashing James Ewell Brown (“J. E. B.”) Stuart while nursing wounded soldiers, perhaps at General Stuart’s headquarters, Camp Qui Vive, not far from her home. Some keepsakes from J. E. B. Stuart and two poems written by him were found in Laura’s effects when she died many years later. Perhaps J. E. B. Stuart intended to marry Laura Ratcliffe, but he was killed on 10 May 1864 in a battle at Yellow Tavern.

After the war, Laura Ratcliffe faced difficult circumstances, according to the Times article. She was poverty-stricken and caring for an invalid sister. Milton Hanna, a neighbor and former soldier for the Union Army who evidently admired the former Confederate conspirator, built a house for her on the banks of Merrybrook Run. The house, which was originally called “Brookside,” and later “Merrybrook,” still stands at 2346 Centreville Road. After her sister’s death, Laura Ratcliffe married Milton Hanna. She was 50 years old at the time. When Hanna died seven years later, he left Miss Laura financially secure, according to the Times. Laura Ratcliffe Hanna died on 3 August 1923.

The Ratcliffe/Coleman/Hanna Family Cemetery was surveyed in 1973, 1987, 1988, 1994 and 1997. It is enclosed by a pretty wrought iron fence with a gate. The fence is surrounded by high hedges and tall holly trees, so thick that the cemetery is not visible from the nearby hotel parking lot. Upon close inspection, a path can be found between two hollies at the northwest corner of the cemetery. The one large grey granite gravestone in the well-maintained cemetery is inscribed:

RATCLIFFE

COLEMAN

HANNA

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

RECTOR FAMILY CEMETERY

Behind Pickwick Square Shopping Center near Pickwick Road and Lee Highway
Centreville, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 4 of the Gravestone Books

The Rector Family Cemetery, visited in 1996, is behind Pickwick Square Shopping Center near the intersection of Pickwick Road and Lee Highway (Route 29). It lies above the grade of the shopping center and is set off from the rear parking area by a wrought iron fence and attractive landscaping. The southern edge of the cemetery is separated from the Centreville Elementary School playground by a chain link fence.

The cemetery itself receives no maintenance. The ground is covered with periwinkle, but is overgrown and littered with tree branches and fallen limbs.

In 1987, surveyors visited the cemetery and reported: “One year ago this cemetery had headstones intact and was fenced in with a wrought iron cemetery fence; now it is destroyed. The fence has been torn out, headstones are gone and several graves have been dug up. Massive evidence of relic hunting. One hole is large enough and the correct shape to have had a coffin removed. There were ten graves in this small cemetery -- all members of the Rector family who once lived on the property.”

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

REID FAMILY CEMETERY

On the grounds of the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Station at 6300 Old Georgetown Pike
McLean, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 1 of the Gravestone Books

This cemetery is located on the grounds of the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Station at 6300 Old Georgetown Pike, McLean. It is not open to the public. You may call 703-205-2104 for access.

When the gravestones were last read in October 1987, the cemetery was nicely maintained and contained eleven gravestones. The earliest death date was 1855; the most recent was 1961.

Update/Corrections/Additions from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

REID FAMILY CEMETERY – UPDATE AND CORRECTIONS
The Reid Family Cemetery stands on a median near the visitors’ parking area at the Turner-Fairbanks Highway Research Station. Concrete posts mark the boundaries of the cemetery which measures about 35 feet by 35 feet.

The cemetery was visited by Harry Shannon and described in his “The Rambler” column in the 22 February 1920 issue of the Washington Star: “In a little plot on a knoll overlooking the farm rest many of the Reid family. The plot is planted with venerable box[wood], and high above the box bushes rise old red cedars. The graves of Robert Nelson Reid and his wife are marked by simple bowlders (sic) of native rock. . . .”

The area has been landscaped, but the large boxwoods and an old forsythia still shade the graves. The site was surveyed in 1973, 1987, 1988, 1994 and 1999. Note that the inscriptions for James L. Reid and his wife Mary Alice Reid are on the same gravestone; Ethel Reid Wagner died in 1964.

REID GRAVESITE

Jerusalem Baptist Church Cemetery
Fairfax Station, VA USA

When he wrote his will, James Reid requested that he be laid to rest “on the land of Noah Martin, just above his spring on the right of the lane as he goes from his house to the court house between the two cherry trees” (Will Book Q, page 51). Today this spot is deep in the woods along the south side of New Guinea Road at its intersection with Talon Court in the Woodylynn area of Burke.

In the 1970s, the owner of the site wanted to develop it and plans were made to move James Reid’s grave to a more suitable location. Jerusalem Baptist Church in Fairfax Station, whose first pastor had been Reid’s heir, agreed to reinter the remains in the church cemetery. After verifying that no one else was buried at the site, that there had been no interment, visitation, or maintenance in the past 25 years, and that there were no reserved rights to the cemetery, a court order was granted on 8 September 1975, for the disinterment, transit and reinterment of the remains of James Reid. The court order was not acted upon until 27 April 1994, nineteen years after the court's decision, when the remains and gravemarkers were removed from the woods and laid in the ground at Jerusalem Baptist Church Cemetery (see index).

James Reid’s large and impressive gravestone has been vandalized and broken over the years. The inscription on the gravestone is now illegible. Funds are available for a new marker which will bear James Reid’s name and dates of birth, death, and reinterment. This will be placed at the new gravesite. According to information on file in the Virginia Room of the Fairfax City Regional Library, the original inscription read as follows:

In memory of
Elder JAMES REID,
A diligent and successful Minister
of the Gospel,
of the Baptist denomination.
He was born the 30th. of April, 1788,
And finished his earthly course
the 3rd. of August, 1830,
aged 42 years & 4 months.
His life was devoted to the glory
of God and the salvation of his
fellow men;
and while a numerous circle of
Christian friends mourn his
early removal, they are consoled
with the conviction that their
loss is his eternal gain.
“Blessed are the dead who
die in the Lord.”
“My flesh shall slumber under ground,
Till the last trumpet's joyful sound,
Then burst the chains with sweet surprise,
And in my Saviour's image rise.”

RIKER GRAVESITE (REMOVED)

On the Riker farm along Beulah Road (Route 613) near the Manchester Lakes shopping center
South Alexandria, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 5 of the Gravestone Books

Information on file in the Virginia Room of the Fairfax City Regional Library discloses that Albert Riker (1817-1901) was interred on his farm along Beulah Road (Route 613) near where the Manchester Lakes shopping center stands today at the intersection of Beulah with Manchester Boulevard and the Franconia-Springfield Parkway. When the farm was sold in the mid 1930s, Albert Riker’s remains were removed to Bethel Cemetery in Alexandria by Demaine Funeral Home. This information was supplied by Ross G. Riker, Albert Riker’s grandson.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

ROBERDEAU FAMILY CEMETERY

Was at NE Corner of Braddock Road and Lee Highway
Centreville, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 4 of the Gravestone Books

The Roberdeau family home “Royal Oaks” was located on the northeast corner of the present-day intersection of Braddock Road and Lee Highway (Route 29). All that is left of the large house is the old stone wall which can be seen along Braddock Road. Inside the entrance in the wall is a densely overgrown and heavily wooded area strewn with old tires, bottles, limbs and branches. One large old oak tree stands near the center of the property. According to a for sale sign, there are 4.4 acres at the site, zoned for commercial use.

Royal Oaks was built by Newton Keene, Sr. between 1765 and 1790, according to an article in the 15 October 1987 issue of Centre View. The house was eventually owned by Edmund Denny who devised the property to his daughter Martha Denny Roberdeau, wife of James Milligan Roberdeau. James and Martha Roberdeau are said to be buried on the grounds of Royal Oaks.

Works Progress Administration of Virginia Historical Surveys were submitted on Royal Oaks in 1937 and 1938. The 1938 report describes the house “as a two story, frame house with stone foundation and large stone chimneys, one at each end of the original part” of the house. This account states that James Milligan Roberdeau was the son of General Daniel Roberdeau, a member of the Continental Congress. General Roberdeau was married first to Mary Bostwick, by whom he had four children, and then to Jane Milligan, by whom he had three children.

The 1937 WPA report states that James M. Roberdeau was born in Alexandria, Virginia in 1785, and died in Centreville on 10 March 1832. According to this account, the family cemetery was a few feet northwest of the old north chimney.

According to the Centre View article and to the WPA reports, Union General John Pope used Royal Oaks as his headquarters during the Civil War. For almost 100 years a glass insulator, part of the telegraph communications system for General Pope, hung in one of the old oak trees near the northwest room where Pope had his office. In 1959, Royal Oaks was dismantled and transported to Fauquier County, Virginia to be reassembled, a project which was never completed. The glass insulator evidently went to Fauquier County along with the dismantled house.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

ROBEY FAMILY CEMETERY

Behind the row of townhouses at 430 Council Drive
Vienna, Virginia USA

Not Included in Volume 1 of the Gravestone Books

Update/Corrections/Additions from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

ADDITION: ROBEY FAMILY CEMETERY
The Robey Family Cemetery is located in the woods behind the row of townhouses at 430 Council Drive in the Council Square townhouse development, just off Church Street in the town of Vienna. A walkway runs between 430 and 432 to the woods behind the townhouses.

Charles Robey built a house on the property circa 1846-1850 which he sold to John H. Lynn of Loudoun County in 1873, according to This Was Vienna by Connie Pendleton Stuntz and Mayo Sturdevant Stuntz. The property passed through several owners and the “30 feet square” Robey Family Cemetery continued to be reserved from sale. When This Was Vienna was written in 1987, the cemetery was described as in the park within the townhouse development.

When Brian Conley, Information Specialist in the Virginia Room of the Fairfax City Regional Library, visited the site in 1994, he found several grave depressions, but no grave markers in the “overgrown and neglected” graveyard.

ROBINSON FAMILY CEMETERY

Surrounded by the pastures of the Battlefield Equestrian Center, 16009 Lee Highway
Centreville, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 4 of the Gravestone Books

Located on private land at the end of unpaved and unmarked Robinson Lane, the Robinson Family Cemetery sits atop a small, grass-covered hill surrounded by the grazing pastures of the Battlefield Equestrian Center, 16009 Lee Highway (Route 29). Robinson Lane intersects the south side of Lee Highway about three-quarters of a mile west of Bull Run Post Office Road (Route 621).

This well-maintained cemetery is fenced off from the pastures. Trees line the perimeter of the cemetery. A large gate allows vehicle access for burials. There is evidence of many unmarked graves and many graves are marked with native stones, some carved into gravestone shapes and some inscribed. A few gravestones have toppled over and become partially buried. It is not possible to determine whether these markers are inscribed. This site was surveyed in 1973, 1987, 1994 and 1997.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

ROBINSON FAMILY CEMETERY

East side of Haney Lane, beyond the fence of the Joyce Kilmer Intermediate School
Vienna, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 1 of the Gravestone Books

This cemetery is located on the east side of Haney Lane, beyond the fence of the Joyce Kilmer Intermediate School, Vienna.

When the gravestones were read in October 1987, the cemetery was not well maintained. The cemetery contained six gravestones. The earliest death date was 1885; the most recent 1971.

Update/Corrections/Additions from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

ROBINSON FAMILY CEMETERY - UPDATE AND CORRECTIONS
The Robinson Family Cemetery, also known as the Robinson/ Pearson/Hicks Family Cemetery, is located west of Gallows Road, behind Joyce Kilmer Intermediate School, on the east side of Haney Lane, at the point where Haney Lane changes from a paved to a gravel road.

The cemetery was surveyed in 1973, 1987 and 1999. A neighbor told the 1999 surveyor that the cemetery consists of a 135-foot strip of land which runs along the chain link fence separating the burials from the school. Surveyors have noted evidence of several unmarked graves. The 1999 surveyors recorded the following errors (in bold) in the survey published in Volume I:

E. Haney aged 40 yr		11 Dec 1885
S. Costello aged 55 yr		6 May 1901
Nellie Pearson “Niney” (near other Pearson graves)	1920	1978

ROBINSON/SCOTT FAMILY CEMETERY

West of 6411 Muster Court near intersection with Picket Oaks Road
Centreville, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 4 of the Gravestone Books

Located in the Centre Ridge development which extends from New Braddock Road to Old Mill Road, the Robinson/Scott Family Cemetery was found in the midst of new construction in 1997. The site, just west of 6411 Muster Court near Muster’s intersection with Picket Oaks Road, had been carefully protected by the developer with a sturdy, white plastic fence.

An old cedar and an old oak stand in the cemetery among a few fieldstone grave markers. Other fieldstones are scattered around the site. The 1988 surveyor counted eight to ten graves with markers. “A few of the graves have been dug up, and there is evidence of relic hunting in the area,” she noted. In 1994, the surveyor described an area clear of brush with at least fifteen graves, some marked by field-stones. The 1997 surveyors reported that one grave appeared to have been disturbed with digging. The area was fairly clear, but currently receives no maintenance.

Information about possible unmarked burials in this cemetery is on file in the Virginia Room of the Fairfax City Regional Library.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

ROSE FAMILY CEMETERY

100 feet northwest of intersection of Braddock Road (Route 620) and Poplar Tree Road
Centreville, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 4 of the Gravestone Books

The Rose Family Cemetery is located 100 feet northwest of the intersection of Braddock Road (Route 620) and Poplar Tree Road on property which was once the Rose farm. The farm is now covered with new subdivisions.

In 1987, researchers surveyed the site and found no grave markers. They interviewed a Rose family member who stated that his sisters were buried at the site in a small cemetery. Daisy Maud Rose, born 10 October 1910, and Ella May Rose, born 2 July 1914, both died on 10 December 1923, when the family’s home burned to the ground. An article in the 14 December 1923 issue of the Fairfax Herald describes this tragic event.

A fire that destroyed the home of Mr. John T. Rose, near Centreville, cost the lives of two young girls, children of Mr. Rose, who were trapped in the building and burned to death.

What caused the fire, which occurred after midnight, Sunday last, is unknown. One of the children awakened, and, realising that the house was afire, woke her father, and he caused the children and others in the house to climb out on a porch roof, while he got a ladder and brought them safely to the ground. Noticing the absence of the two girls, one of 13 and the other 10 years of age, he attempted to get into the house, but was driven back by flames.

One of the girls that lost her life was the one that first discovered the fire and called her father. She went back to her room for clothing and was there caught and burned to death. The burned bodies, it is stated, were found in the ruins after the fire.

The news of the fire and the tragic death of the children shocked the entire community for many miles around, and the sympathy of every one goes out to the bereaved father, brothers and sisters. The house and its contents were a total loss.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

SACRED HEART MISSION CHURCH CEMETERY

Braddock Road (Route 620), about 0.2 mile east of intersection with Pleasant Valley Road
Chantilly, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 4 of the Gravestone Books

The Sacred Heart Cemetery is located on the north side of Braddock Road (Route 620), about 0.2 mile east of Braddock’s intersection with Pleasant Valley Road (Route 609) at Schneider’s Crossroads. The graveyard is also known as the Schneider Family Cemetery.

The neglected cemetery is surrounded by fences with a chain link fence running along Braddock Road and wire fences on the other three sides. The fencing has fallen in some places. A wooden sign on the grounds of the cemetery reads “Sacred Heart Mission Church of Pleasant Valley 1908-1940.” Beer cans and other trash litter the shoulder of the road near the cemetery gate which had been pried off its hinges. (A surveyor in 1997 was able to remount the gate.) The cemetery is covered with old trees, but is not overgrown. It appears to be cleared periodically.

The cemetery was surveyed in 1955, 1977, 1988 and 1997. Surveyors noted many fieldstone markers in the cemetery, as well as piles of stones which may be native stones rather than grave markers. The 1988 surveyor reported that the graveyard, associated with the earliest Catholic Church in Centreville, was fairly well maintained.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

SAINT AIDAN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH MEMORIAL GARDEN

8531 Riverside Road
Fairfax, Virginia 22308 USA
(703) 360-4220

Located next to the outdoor labyrinth on the church grounds, the St. Aidan’s Memorial Garden offers a sanctified and peaceful resting place where ashes can be interred and where benches, trees, and flowering bushes create a welcoming setting for meditation, reflection, and conversation. Those whose ashes are interred in the garden are remembered on a bronze plaque within the garden, and more information about the life of the departed can be included in the church’s Memorial Book. To learn more, please contact the Parish Office.

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2413093/saint-aidan's-episcopal-church/map

SAINT JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH CEMETERY

5649 Mount Gilead Road
Centreville, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 4 of the Gravestone Books

Historic Saint John’s Episcopal Church is located at 5649 Mount Gilead Road, one block off Braddock Road (Route 620) and just north of Lee Highway (Route 29). The church faces Mount Gilead Road at its intersection with Wharton Lane. The cemetery lies on three sides of the church -- in the front, back, and to the northwest of the church along Wharton Lane.

According to a 1969 Historic American Buildings Survey Inventory, the church was built on land donated in 1849 by John A. Throckmorton and Robert M. Whaley, local residents. The building was consecrated by Bishop Johns of the Diocese of Virginia in 1850. In 1969, the Reverend William Peterson reported that there had been no major changes to the one-story Gothic Revival style building. A parish hall was added in 1954, and there has been some new construction in recent years.

The pretty cemetery is well-maintained and in current use. There are a number of graves marked with fieldstones as well as some unmarked graves. The cemetery was surveyed in 1955, 1975, 1988, 1996 and 1997. The church has collected records and biog-raphies for those buried in the graveyard, according to Nell Doane, church historian. Researchers may call the church at (703) 803-7500 for additional information.

Carol Drake Friedman described the cemetery in “A Tour Through Time,” published in the 8 October 1987 issue of Centre View. Some of Ms. Friedman’s comments are included within parentheses below.

The survey begins to the northwest (left) as one faces the church. The first gravestone is near the split rail fence which borders Wharton Lane, near the large magnolia tree.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

SAINT MARK'S CATHOLIC CHURCH COLUMBARIUM

9970 Vale Road
Vienna, Virginia USA

Not Included in Volume 1 of the Gravestone Books

Update/Corrections/Additions from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

ADDITION: SAINT MARK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH COLUMBARIUM
The memorial garden at Saint Mark’s Catholic Church, 9970 Vale Road, is in a park-like area down a flight of steps, just off the parking lot in front of the church complex. A flagstone path through the trees leads to the site of the Williams Family Cemetery (q.v.). A monument “to the unborn” erected by the Knights of Columbus, Santa Maria Council #4653 in Vienna is on one side of the area and a low columbarium for the inurnment of cremains has been placed in the area nearest the church.

In 1999 surveyors visited the site and recorded the following inscriptions on bronze plaques at the columbarium.

James Richard McHale	1949	1998
Pasquale J. Russo	1917	1999
Robert J. Byrne	1921	1998
Ronald E. Baker	1931	1999
Karla Sneed	1928	1999
John Joseph Reagan	1929	1998
Doreen E. Reagan	1957	1997

SAINT MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH CEMETERY

Grounds of St. Mary's Catholic Church, 5612 Ox Road
Fairfax Station, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 2 of the Gravestone Books

This beautiful church cemetery is located on the grounds of St. Mary's Catholic Church, 5612 Ox Road (Route 123), Fairfax Station. The entrance to the church grounds is on Fairfax Station Road, just northeast of the road's intersection with Vogue Road.

Land for a Catholic church and cemetery was donated to the Diocese of Richmond in 1838 by two Fairfax families, the Hamills and the Cunninghams, according to St. Mary's, Fairfax Station, Virginia by Jeanne Rodrigues and William Hammond, published in 1975. Burials in the consecrated Catholic cemetery began immediately, but it was not until 1858 that construction of a church was begun at the site. The Orange and Alexandria Railroad had advertised for workers and many Irish immigrants came to the area to help build the railroad, and the church was built to attend to their needs. Today, St. Mary's Church is the oldest Catholic Church in Fairfax County.

St. Mary's Church was the site of medical care for those wounded at the Battle of Second Manassas in August 1862. Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, came to Fairfax Station to help the wounded on a train loaded with food and supplies for the Union troops.

The injured were to be transported back to Washington, D. C. on the returning train, but the train could carry only 1,000 men at a time and there were over 8,000 wounded. The men were laid out on the hill around the church, nursed by Miss Barton and treated by doctors who used the church building -- the only dry spot in a rainstorm -- as their clinic. During a long three days and nights, many soldiers died and were buried in the church graveyard. St. Mary's, Fairfax Station states that most of the slain soldiers were removed to Arlington National Cemetery after the war, “and only one Confederate grave, located on the upper edge of the church's courtyard, remains as testimony to the battle that raged nearby.” The Virginia State Historical Commission and the American Red Cross have erected a historical marker commemorating Clara Barton's efforts at St. Mary's.

The old church building and the cemetery grounds are beautifully maintained. There are a few fieldstones among the beautifully carved gravestones. The church is still used for special occasions. The cemetery was surveyed in 1924, 1955, circa 1974, 1990, 1994, and visited again in January 1995. There is an area for inurnment of cremains on the cemetery grounds which was not included in the surveys. The readings begin near the parking area with the first row of gravestones running parallel to Fairfax Station Road.

Updates/Corrections/Additions from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

The area for the inurnment of cremains was not included in the survey of Saint Mary’s Catholic Church Cemetery published in Volume II. The ground-level niches lie in a circle east of the church building. Some are double niches for two people. The plaques were read in August 1999, and the information was rechecked the following month.

SAINT PAUL'S CHAPEL CEMETERY

6271 Lincolnia Road (Route 613)
Lincolnia, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 5 of the Gravestone Books

Saint Paul’s Chapel Cemetery is located in a residential area at 6271 Lincolnia Road (Route 613). Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church originally stood on this lot, but is now located at 3439 Payne Street in the Bailey’s Crossroads area of the county. An old sidewalk runs from Lincolnia Road to the site where the church once stood. The cemetery is set back from the road and evidently was situated to the side and to the back of the church.

The cemetery is in fairly good condition. Many old trees stand around the lot and there are some dead trees, some stumps and a pile of logs at the back of the lot. A sidewalk runs along the side of the cemetery.

Saint Paul’s Chapel Cemetery was surveyed in 1973, 1987, 1988, 1997, and 1998. The graves are arranged in plots and recent surveyors arranged their report to reflect this. Some graves are marked with concrete blocks and there are many unmarked burials in the cemetery. The survey begins in the southeast corner of the cemetery and proceeds plot-by-plot toward the rear of the lot and then back toward Lincolnia Road.

E. Mitchell
(recorded in 1973; not found in 1988 or 1997)

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

SAINT TIMOTHY'S CHAPEL

Near 6311 Old Centreville Road
Centreville, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 4 of the Gravestone Books

The grounds of old Saint Timothy’s Chapel are located near 6311 Old Centreville Road. Saint Timothy’s was “built in 1924 to fill the need for a place of worship for Catholics in the Centreville area,” according to “St. Timothy’s Chapel” by Thelma Regina Miller in the 1978-1979 issue of The Historical Society of Fairfax County, Virginia, Inc. At the time, worshipers in the area sometimes found it difficult to travel to services at Saint Mary’s Catholic Church in Fairfax Station (see Volume II) or All Saints in Manassas.

After serving the community for nearly 50 years, the church structure, which was described as a small building of frame construction, was torn down to make way for construction of Route 28. The new highway and new subdivisions cut Old Centreville Road into several pieces. The churchyard lies on the east side of the road, near this piece of Old Centreville’s intersection with Centreville Road (Route 28).

The site, which was last visited in 1996, is on a grassy knoll above the road with a few sparse stands of trees around the area and a thick tree line at the rear of the lot. Orange plastic construction fencing has been erected here and there and an area in the trees has also been fenced off -- perhaps to protect the burials from construction activities. The grounds are surrounded by Compton Villages, a new development of single-family homes, townhouses and condominiums.

According to research and a survey conducted in 1987, the church did not have a cemetery, but permitted burials in the churchyard. The surveyors wrote: “The graves are located in several areas on the abandoned church property. . . . Relic hunters have left extensive evidence of digging. Two graves have been evacuated. . . . One [grave] has native stone head and foot stones. . . . One grave about 100 feet to the rear of the church . . . has been completely dug up and the headstone cast aside.” The researchers cited Saint Timothy’s records as their source for some of this information. No evidence of the burials remains today.

The surveyors interviewed “old-time” Centreville residents who stated that two or three Civil War soldiers were buried on the church grounds, possibly from nearby Camp Withers.

The following burials reported by the 1987 surveyors were found in the records of Saint Mary’s Parish.

Minnie Howard	died 10 Jul 1919	aged 60
David Breen	died 25 Sep 1924	aged 9
Fannie Theresa Wells	died 24 Jul 1925	aged 60
William Murtaugh	died 28 Dec 1944	aged 83
Elizabeth Murtaugh	died 4 Jan 1945	aged 79

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

SALEM CEMETERY

Next to church at 10100 Georgetown Pike
Great Falls, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 1

This cemetery is located on the north side of Georgetown Pike (Route 193), approximately 2,000 feet west of its intersection with Walker Road, adjacent to the Great Falls United Methodist Church (formerly Forestville United Methodist Church) which is located at 10100 Georgetown Pike, Great Falls.

At one time the cemetery was associated with Salem Methodist Church, and the cemetery gate still reads "Salem Cemetery." When the gravestones were read in October 1988, the cemetery was in current use and was well maintained. The cemetery contained 68 gravestones. The earliest death date was 1882; the most recent was 1988.

Update/Corrections/Additions from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

The congregations of Salem Methodist Church and Arnon Chapel (q.v.) merged in 1944 to form Forestville United Methodist Church. The church is now called Great Falls United Methodist Church. The cemetery was surveyed in 1949, 1973 and 1988. All surveys were compared and checked against each other.

Note: The name “Jhon White” at the bottom of page GF-35 is as it appears on the gravestone. A notation of “(sic)” should have been included in the listing to verify this anomaly.

SALONA CEMETERY or CEMETERIES

1214 Buchanon Street
McLean, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 1 of the Gravestone Books

This cemetery is located beneath a solitary tree, about 220 feet south of “Salona,” 1214 Buchanon Street, McLean. “Salona” was built around 1805 by Parson William Maffitt. President Madison stayed there the night the British burned Washington in 1814. It is thought that the cemetery contains at least twelve slave burials dating from 1810 to 1856.

Update/Corrections/Additions from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

SALONA CEMETERY OR CEMETERIES – UPDATE
As reported in Volume I, “Salona” was built about 1805 by the Reverend William Maffitt, a Presbyterian minister who was one of the four ministers who officiated at George Washington’s funeral at the Presbyterian Meeting House in Alexandria, according to The Lewinsville Presbyterian Church by Frank W. Gapp. William Maffitt married Henrietta Lee Turberville, the daughter of Richard Henry Lee and the widow of George Turberville.

A slave cemetery has been reported at Salona; however, according to Mr. Gapp, when Mr. Maffitt died in 1828, he was buried at Salona, “but when the Lewinsville Church was organized, his widow requested that he be reinterred in the churchyard.” Perhaps there is a family cemetery at Salona, as well as the slave cemetery.

SANGSTER FAMILY CEMETERY

11200 Chapel Road
Fairfax Station, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 2 of the Gravestone Books

The three gravestones which are the only remnants of the Sangster Family Cemetery were found in September 1994 in a stand of twisted trees in the middle of a horse pasture just west of Butt's Corner at 11200 Chapel Road, Fairfax Station. One stone still stands within the undergrowth with a tree twisted around it. The other two gravestones are broken and propped up against another tree.

Updates/Corrections/Additions from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

In the fall of 1996, local historian Mitchell Amos cleared the Sangster Family Cemetery and cleaned up the site. At that time, Mr. Amos uncovered three pieces of a gravestone for Mary E. Sangster, daughter of Edward & Mary K. Sangster, who was born in 1835. He was also able to read an inscription on the gravestone for Maj’r James Sangster which identified him as an “affectionate husband and an indulgent parent.”

Mr. Amos also gathered other information about the Sangster Family Cemetery. He learned that when the property was sold by A. B. Williams in 1852, he reserved a family cemetery, 50 by 100 feet, marked with four gravestones.

At the Lloyd House, Alexandria Public Library, Mr. Amos found “Some Family Side Lights,” historical notes written by Rose Rebecca Harris in about 1922. Rose Harris was born about 1847, and died 9 April 1944, the daughter of Ann Barry Sangster and John C. Harris. Her grandparents were James and Priscilla Sangster of “Fairview.” The Sangster Family Cemetery was connected to that estate.

According to her notes, Miss Harris saw Fairview and the family cemetery just once when, as a small child, she attended the funeral of her great uncle, Captain Thomas Sangster. She remembers that one of her cousin James Sangster’s children was also buried there. She recalls Fairview as a

frame structure, two stories high, with a long, high front porch and with very ample grounds. . . The graves of James and Priscilla were enclosed by separate brick walls, on which laid slabs of marble suitably inscribed, these slabs were taken away by Northern troops, and used as hearth stones in their winter huts, at a camp not far distant. A man of the neighborhood, where my mother was then living (at the old “Windsor House” near Fairfax Station), told her that he saw them in these huts.

SCHNEIDER FAMILY CEMETERY

See SACRED HEART MISSION CHURCH CEMETERY
Chantilly, Virginia USA

The Sacred Heart Cemetery is located on the north side of Braddock Road (Route 620), about 0.2 mile east of Braddock’s intersection with Pleasant Valley Road (Route 609) at Schneider’s Crossroads. The graveyard is also known as the Schneider Family Cemetery.

SCOTT FAMILY CEMETERY

Across from the large office building at Washington Technology Park, 15000 Conference Center Drive
Chantilly, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 4 of the Gravestone Books

The Scott Family Cemetery sits atop a high hill at the western end of the circle of Conference Center Drive, west of Stonecroft Boulevard in the Westfields office park. It is directly across from the large office building at Washington Technology Park, 15000 Conference Center Drive. The other land on the circle has not yet been developed. The cemetery is not visible from street level due to the tall grass, even in winter when the foliage has died back.

The Scott family was very prominent in the early days of Fairfax County, according to an article about the family in the 21 June 1986 issue of Centre View. David Wilson Scott lived at nearby “Farmington,” owned by the family from about 1797 to the 1850s. Farmington was on the Salisbury Plain, a tract now bordered by Braddock, Lee and Sully Roads. His brother Richard Marshall Scott owned “Bush Hill” in the Franconia area. Richard Scott was a merchant and banker in Alexandria and served in the Virginia Assembly in 1811, according to the article.

On 11 December 1854, Richard Marshall Scott’s son, also named Richard Marshall Scott, recorded this outing in his diary:

Clear and mild – Weather moderating. My brother and myself started in our carryall this morning to make a visit to the tomb of our respected Father, and to the grave of my dear Mother, at his farm called Farmington. We arrived at Farmington at 1 o’clock. At this old family place is located our old family Burial place – here repose the remains of our ancestry. The graves are marked by a plain slab of marble with appropriate inscriptions on each. Grandfather John Scott, grand-mother Mary M. Scott, father Richard M. Scott, my own beloved mother Eleanor Douglass Scott, our uncle David Wilson [Scott] and his wife Elizabeth; our aunt Annie Scott and our father’s first wife Mary Love Scott.

Surveyed in 1987, 1989 and 1997, the cemetery is enclosed by a six-foot chain link fence and padlocked against intruders. When the site was visited in 1997, surveyors noted several clumps of daffodils growing outside the fence. A few old trees stand in the center of the cemetery grounds. Surveyors found the cemetery neglected, the gravestones broken and buried, and the grounds overgrown. All but one of the gravestones are long, flat slabs of marble designed to lie flat on the ground. The stones have been displaced and grass and weeds grow up through the broken pieces. The gravestone for Jane Ward is made of sandstone. The 1997 surveyors noted a few uninscribed grave markers in the cemetery.

The developers of Westfields told the Centre View reporter that they had “found two other smaller plots on the property,” but the location of these sites is not known. They also described their plans to preserve the cemetery in a park-like setting and mark the site of Farmington, which is said to be about 200 yards southeast of the cemetery.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

SCOTT FAMILY CEMETERY AT STRAWBERRY VALE (REMOVED)

Was east of I-495 and south of Route 123 on land developed in 1967 as the Westgate Business Park
McLean, Virginia USA

Not Included in Volume 1 of the Gravestone Books

Update/Corrections/Additions from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

ADDITION: SCOTT FAMILY CEMETERY AT STRAWBERRY VALE – (REMOVED)
The first known record of the estate “Strawberry Vale” is found in the 25 October 1787 issue of the Alexandria Gazette when the death of William Scott was reported, “[o]n the 18th instant, . . . at his Seat, called Strawberry-Vale,” accord-ing to This Was Tysons Corner, Virginia by Connie Pendleton Stuntz and Mayo Sturdevant Stuntz. The manor house, whose builder is unknown, stood approximately 200 yards north of Chain Bridge Road (Route 123) in the path of the present-day Route 123/Interstate 495 cloverleaf. The house was demolished when the interstate was constructed in 1958.

Strawberry Vale passed down in the Scott family until 1811, when John C. Scott sold the estate to Theodoric Lee, “excepting a graveyard on one-fourth an acre” (Deed Book L-2, page 318). Theodoric Lee sold the property just a few months later to his brother, Richard Bland Lee, possibly in payment of a debt, according to Maplewood by Diane N. Rafuse. When Richard Bland Lee sold the property to John Gantt, Jr. in 1814, the graveyard was still reserved.

In her account of Maplewood, Diane Rafuse described Strawberry Vale which was close to Maplewood:

Entrance to the Manor in this century was by a driveway lined with locust trees. At the entrance to the east was the grave of a Civil War soldier. . . . Behind the house and to the north-west, the land sloped downward toward Scotts Run. On this slope was an orchard, and across the stream on the upward slope was a wooded area. Near the wooded area (about 300 yards from the house) were the foundations of Negro cabins and a burial ground. . . . On the slope midway between the house and Route 123 was an unmarked graveyard. From deeds to the land and from the research efforts of the Gantt family, it is believed that this plot was the burying ground of the John Gantt, Jr. family.

Research conducted in 1998 by Brian Conley, Information Specialist in the Virginia Room, Fairfax City Regional Library, indicates that the family cemetery was located east of Interstate 495 and south of Route 123 on land developed in 1967 as the Westgate Business Park. The Westgate Corporation arranged for the removal of burials from “an abandoned graveyard” to Section II, Lot 352A in Fairfax City Cemetery.

SENECA ROAD CEMETERY

1101 Seneca Road
Great Falls, Virginia

Original Information from Volume 1 of the Gravestone Books

This cemetery contains what could be six to eight grave depressions and is located on the east side of Seneca Road, 1/10 of a mile north of Georgetown Pike (Route 193), inside a horseshoe-shaped area flanked by trees, to the left of the residence at 1011 Seneca Road, Great Falls. When the site was visited in August 1991, the owner of the property did not recall any burials there during her lifetime (she was 83 years old), but she believed her Ellis ancestors were buried there. The owner was an African-American.

SHARON CHAPEL CEMETERY

Behind All Saints Episcopal Church at 3421 Franconia Road (Route 644)
South Alexandria, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 5 of the Gravestone Books

Sharon Chapel Cemetery stands behind All Saints Episcopal Church at 3421 Franconia Road (Route 644), just west of the intersection of Franconia with Telegraph Road (Route 611). Sharon Chapel was established in 1848, by the Virginia Theological Seminary, according to The Episcopal Churches in the Diocese of Virginia by Don W. Massey. All Saints became an “aided mission of the Diocese of Virginia” in 1959, and All Saints-Sharon Chapel became a parish of the Diocese in 1974. The modern A-frame sanctuary was built in 1963, the fourth chapel at this site.

In earlier days, the front of the church faced in the opposite direction, toward the south. Parishioners entered the church through the cemetery, from Sharon Chapel Road. Today, the cemetery is tranquil and pretty with many azaleas, cedars, dogwoods and oaks among the gravestones. The graveyard is enclosed on three sides by the fences, trees and shrubs of its neighbors.

The site was surveyed in 1990, 1991, 1997 and 1998. The survey begins in the northwest corner of the cemetery. The gravestones were read row by row. Gravestones in obvious family plots were read together. There are many people buried in the cemetery with the surname Pulman or Pullman. Utmost care has been taken to spell this surname as it appears on each grave marker. Compilers felt that the use of (sic) in these cases would be confusing to the reader.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

SHERMAN FAMILY/FAIRFAX FAMILY CEMETERIES

On the grounds of Ash Grove,
8800 Ash Grove Lane
Vienna, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 1 of the Gravestone Books

SHERMAN FAMILY/FAIRFAX FAMILY CEMETERIES
“Ash Grove,” built circa 1790, is a T-shaped frame house which belonged to the Fairfax family until it was purchased in 1850 by James Sherman. It is said that the property now located at 8900 Ash Grove Lane, McLean, is the site of a Fairfax Family Cemetery and a Sherman Family Cemetery.

Update/Corrections/Additions from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books - McLean Section

SHERMAN FAMILY/FAIRFAX FAMILY CEMETERIES – CORRECTION
The Sherman Family Cemetery and the Fairfax Family Cemetery at Ash Grove were erroneously reported in the McLean area in Volume I. Ash Grove is located in the Vienna area of the county. An update about these cemeteries is included in the Vienna section of this volume.

Update/Corrections/Additions from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books - Vienna Section

SHERMAN FAMILY/FAIRFAX FAMILY CEMETERIES – UPDATE AND CORRECTION
The Sherman Family and the Fairfax Family Cemeteries which were reported in the McLean section of Volume I are actually located in the Vienna area of the county.

A 1969 Historic American Buildings Survey Inventory states that there is a Fairfax Family Cemetery and a Sherman Family Cemetery on the grounds of “Ash Grove,” 8800 Ash Grove Lane. When the Sherman Family Cemetery was surveyed in 1994, the graveyard stood among a group of old boxwoods about 20 yards from the exterior brick kitchen. A ground cover of ivy surrounded the three gravestones.

When the site was visited in 1999, the surveyor found the old house at the end of Ash Grove House Lane, behind a large hotel and a car dealership. The street leading to Ash Grove has become the main street in a townhouse development. The house and kitchen still stand, the ivy still grows under the old boxwoods, but the gravestones and burials have been moved to Lewinsville Presbyterian Church Cemetery in McLean (q.v.) and Flint Hill Cemetery in Oakton (q.v.). The 1994 surveyor recorded these inscriptions at Ash Grove:

Wells Alvord Sherman, Jr.	16 Jun 1903	20 Dec 1973
Caroline M. C. A. Sherman	1923	1963
James Sherman b. New York d. Virginia	1796	1865
Fidelia Fairchild Sherman b. New York d. Virginia wife of James Sherman	1799	1875
Mary Alvord Sherman aged 2 mo daughter of Franklin & Caroline Alvord Sherman		1871

The Fairfax Family Cemetery was described by Caroline Baldwin Sherman in an article about Ash Grove entitled “An Old Virginia Landmark” in a 1927 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly: “In the center of one of the large fields near the house, sheltered by giant maples and green hollies, is an old Fairfax burying ground. . . . [S]ome interesting old stones are left that tell where little Fairfax children still sleep beneath the maples.” The article states that Thomas, Ninth Lord Fairfax, was buried at Ash Grove in 1843. When his wife died twelve years later, Thomas Fairfax’s grave was moved to Ivy Hill Cemetery in Alexandria where he was buried with his wife.

SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY

Across the road from the church at 10704 Gunston Road (Route 242)
Mason Neck, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 5 of the Gravestone Books

Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery is located across the road from the church which stands at 10704 Gunston Road (Route 242). The cemetery is just north of the entrance to Gunston Hall Plantation.

The cemetery was surveyed in 1984, 1988, 1997 and 1998. Surveyors report the existence of over 75 unmarked graves. Surveyors in the 1980s recorded the following memorial marker which was not found by the 1990s surveyors:

Thurmond M. Bushrod
Deacon
Shiloh Baptist Church
whose efforts and dedication helped make
this building and grounds beautiful
1968

The cemetery is surrounded by a chain link fence and well maintained. Many old trees shade the site.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY - New Section

Behind the Shiloh Baptist Church building, at 1331 Spring Hill Road (Route 684)
McLean, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 1 of the Gravestone Books

This cemetery is located in the McLean Hamlet Park, behind 8125 Dunsinane Court, McLean.

Shiloh Baptist Church was founded in 1873 by Rev. Cyrus B. Carter to serve the African-American residents of the community.

When the gravestones were last read in October 1987, the cemetery was in good condition, although there were some overturned gravestones. The cemetery contained sixteen gravestones. The earliest death date was 1889; the most recent was 1936.

When the cemetery was visited in the summer of 1994, the site was somewhat overgrown and few gravestones were standing.

Update/Corrections/Additions from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY - UPDATE - NEW SURVEY
Since publication of Volume I, we have learned that there are two Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery sites. The older site associated with this congregation lies behind 8125 Dunsinane Court in the McLean Hamlet Park subdivision. We surveyed this older cemetery in 1976 and 1987, combined the information, and reported our results in Volume I. The records for this older section may be found under the listing at "Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery - Old Section".

The new section of the cemetery is located behind the Shiloh Baptist Church building, about one-quarter mile west of the old site, at 1331 Spring Hill Road (Route 684).

The newer cemetery was surveyed in 1999, and rechecked twice. Visitors to the site at that time found the church grounds and cemetery fairly well maintained. The notes about flowers decorating graves were primarily made by the June surveyor who visited the site shortly after Memorial Day. A large sign there announced that due to renovations, Shiloh Baptist Church services were temporarily located at Langley High School in McLean.

The 1999 survey of the new Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery is under this listing for "Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery - New Section"

SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY - Old Section

Behind 8125 Dunsinane Court
McLean, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 1 of the Gravestone Books

This cemetery is located in the McLean Hamlet Park, behind 8125 Dunsinane Court, McLean.

Shiloh Baptist Church was founded in 1873 by Rev. Cyrus B. Carter to serve the African-American residents of the community.

When the gravestones were last read in October 1987, the cemetery was in good condition, although there were some overturned gravestones. The cemetery contained sixteen gravestones. The earliest death date was 1889; the most recent was 1936.

When the cemetery was visited in the summer of 1994, the site was somewhat overgrown and few gravestones were standing.

Update/Corrections/Additions from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY - UPDATE - NEW SURVEY
Since publication of Volume I, we have learned that there are two Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery sites. The older site associated with this congregation lies behind 8125 Dunsinane Court in the McLean Hamlet Park subdivision. We surveyed this older cemetery in 1976 and 1987, combined the information, and reported our results in Volume I. The records for this older section may be found under this listing: "Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery - Old Section".

The new section of the cemetery is located behind the Shiloh Baptist Church building, about one-quarter mile west of the old site, at 1331 Spring Hill Road (Route 684).

The newer cemetery was surveyed in 1999, and rechecked twice. Visitors to the site at that time found the church grounds and cemetery fairly well maintained. The notes about flowers decorating graves were primarily made by the June surveyor who visited the site shortly after Memorial Day. A large sign there announced that due to renovations, Shiloh Baptist Church services were temporarily located at Langley High School in McLean.

The 1999 survey of the new Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery is under the listing for "Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery - New Section".

SILVERBROOK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH CEMETERY

8616 Silverbrook Road
Lorton, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 5 of the Gravestone Books

Silverbrook United Methodist Church is located at 8616 Silverbrook Road, across the road from Lorton Reformatory. The cemetery, which was surveyed in 1997 and rechecked twice in 1998, lies to the northwest of the church. It is clean and well maintained.

Several of the gravestones are small, grey granite markers, identical in style and appearance. Many of these are set in concrete bases. A few other grave markers are homemade. A large wooden cross stands at the southwestern edge of the graveyard. The survey begins at the western edge of the site and proceeds row by row through the small cemetery.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

SIMPSON FAMILY CEMETERY

Back of park at junction of Manor House Drive and Windermere Lane
Fairfax Station, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 2 of the Gravestone Books

This cemetery is located in the woods at the back of the small park situated at the junction of Manor House Drive and Windermere Lane in the English Hills area, Fairfax Station. Directly across Manor House Drive from the gate at the driveway of Buckingham Springs (7709 Manor House Drive), walk about 100 yards across the park to the woods. The cemetery is on the overgrown periphery of the well-maintained park.

A 1989 survey indicated that the cemetery had recently been cleared of brush, but in September 1994 the burials were completely overgrown with weeds and brambles. A 24-by-24-foot fence surrounds one gravestone and several fieldstone markers. The gate is broken off the fence. Another gravestone stands outside the fence nearby, but further into the woods, along with fieldstones and many unmarked burials.

(Note: A page from the May/June 1968 “Historic Preservation Bulletin” is on file in the Virginia Room of the Fairfax City Regional Library in the Simpson file. Mention is made of a gravestone for “Nancy Simpson, May 11, 1801,” which was found in English Hills, “buried at the base of a tree in an area that appears to have sunken grave sites in the vicinity.”)

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

SIMPSON FAMILY CEMETERY

Reportedly next to the house at 2919 Martha's Road
South Alexandria, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 5 of the Gravestone Books

A Simpson Family Cemetery reportedly lies next to the house at 2919 Martha’s Road in the Hollin Hills area, according to information on file in the Virginia Room of the Fairfax City Regional Library.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

SISSON FAMILY CEMETERY

Believed to be northwest of junction of Ox Road and Popes Head Road
Farifax Station, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 2 of the Gravestone Books

According to information on file in the Virginia Room of the Fairfax City Regional Library, Robert T. and Nancy E. Sisson on 29 April 1872 reserved rights of ingress and egress to a family burial ground (Deed Book O4, page 247). The location of this cemetery is not known, but it is believed to be northwest of the intersection of Ox Road (Route 123) and Popes Head Road (Route 654) in Fairfax Station.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

SLAVE CEMETERY

Bull Run Marina Regional Park
Clifton, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 2 of the Gravestone Books

A small cemetery containing some grave depressions and a few fieldstone markers is situated in the woods in Bull Run Marina Regional Park, about 250 yards south of the Woodyard Family Cemetery - 2.

The site can be reached down a path from the “Comfort Station” adjacent to the Group parking lot at the intersection of Old Yates Ford Road and Kincheloe Road.

Facing the Comfort Station, go around to the right. From the righthand back corner, proceed diagonally toward the woods for about 32 paces. The trailhead is at the edge of the picnic area, behind a group of small trees growing in the clearing. A very large pine tree marks the trail at the edge of the woods.

The cemetery is on a faint path, about 70 paces into the woods. A pair of very tall pines mark the entrance to the cemetery. A large black oak tree stands on the right next to this very overgrown site. Bull Run Creek is visible through the trees from the cemetery even in summer.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

SMITH'S CHAPEL CEMETERY

South side of Beach Mill Road, about 400 yards east of Seneca Road Great Falls, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 1 of the Gravestone Books

This cemetery is located on the south side of Beach Mill Road, about 400 yards east of Seneca Road in the area known as Dranesville in Great Falls.

This cemetery is associated with the Methodist Church. When the gravestones were read in May 1988, the cemetery was well maintained and contained 44 gravestones. The earliest death date was 1871; the most recent was 1988.

Additional information on the burials in this cemetery are on file in the Virginia Room of the Fairfax City Regional Library.

Updates/Corrections/Additions from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books
(Any corrections or additions noted below have been incorporated into the cemetery records.)

Smith’s Chapel was founded in 1890, and the cemetery was established in 1891. Gravestones for M. A. Beach, I. V. Beach, Martha R. Beach and Chs. E. Bradford bear death dates earlier than 1891. According to F. Lloyd Thrall who researched the cemetery in 1990, the Beach graves, and possibly the Bradford grave as well, were moved to the site from the Bicksler Family Cemetery (q.v.).

The graveyard was surveyed in 1955, 1975, 1988, 1990 and 1999. The 1990 surveyor copied information from a plat prepared by Betty Beach in 1963, which identified unmarked graves. This information is on file in the Virginia Room of the Fairfax City Regional Library. All discrepancies were checked on a visit to the cemetery in 1999. The following information was verified on that visit. Corrections are in bold. For a complete survey of the cemetery, please see Volume I.

Lois F. Mosher “Our mother”	11 Sep 1831	12 Jan 1900
Webster E. Bradford father	9 Oct 1847	2 May 1926
Mary E. Bradford mother	23 Nov 1848	4 Feb 1919
James W. Bradford aged 24 yr, 3 mo husband		12 Jul 1910
Blanch V. Jackson mother	24 May 1895	7 Mar 1979
Boyd F. Jackson father	25 Jun 1897	27 Aug 1982
Carol R. Willingham Pvt, US Army, Korea	2 Jun 1930	13 Oct 1975
Mabel Virginia Beach (dates transposed with those for Hettie Lavinia Beach in Volume I)	28 May 1909	1 Jan 1911
Hettie Lavinia Beach (see Mabel Virginia Beach)	24 Jun 1922	23 Sep 1924
Infant Trammell daughter of James I. & Alice M. Trammell		bet. 1914-17
James Ira Trammell	11 Jun 1887	18 Oct 1930
William Ira Trammell		13 Nov 1917

The following are new gravestones or new inscriptions (in bold) on previously reported gravestones at the site.

Clarence C. Dailey	2 Mar 1885	1 Sep 1952
Stella I. Dailey daughter of Jos. L. & Mary C. Poole	30 Sep 1888	3 Jan 1980
Lawrence Robey (near gravestone for Louise E. Robey)	1902	1988
George Jackson Reed US Army, WWII also Green Funeral Home marker)	6 Aug 1920	28 Jun 1997
Mary L. Jackson	11 Apr 1929	22 Jan 1992
Berton Littleton Jackson US Army (also military marker)	9 Feb 1922	27 May 1992
Howard L. Beach	1906	1989
C. Lucille Beach (gravestone replaces Green Funeral Home marker noted in 1988)	1909	1988
John J. Cooney AOM3, USN, WWII	2 Nov 1925	25 Jun 1990
Hassel Walker	2 Apr 1914	22 Dec 1975
Hazel P. Walker	19 Dec 1916	15 Aug 1998
John R. Rouden	1909	1985
Mary K. Rouden	1912	1989
Selma Beach Cockrell “Toopie”	28 May 1930	26 Mar 1996
Josephine L. Kidwell “wife of Kenny”	21 Aug 1927	23 Feb 1998
Albert L. Bapst “Thank you for your wisdom, your courage, your strength and your friendship. Thank you for being my father. Your Loving Son, Randy” (emblem for International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers; also Green Funeral Home marker)	10 Aug 1936	10 Jun 1997

The following gravestone was recorded in 1990, but not found on other surveys. The 1999 surveyor noted that there are several gravestone bases without markers in the cemetery.

T. W. Simpson aged 81 yr

Oct 1919

SNOWDEN & BETHLEHEM CEMETERY

Adjacent to Coleman Cemetery, 1900 Collingwood Road (Route 628)
South Alexandria, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 5 of the Gravestone Books

The Snowden & Bethlehem Cemetery is situated adjacent to Coleman Cemetery, 1900 Collingwood Road (Route 628), in the Gum Springs community. The smaller church cemetery lies to the west of Coleman; the two cemeteries are divided by a road within the cemetery grounds and a low cable fence.

Snowden & Bethlehem Cemetery* is associated with Bethlehem Baptist Church which stands at 7836 Fordson Road at the intersection of Fordson with Sherwood Hall Lane (Route 626). The church was established by Samuel K. Taylor (1836-1912) who had been a slave on the William P. Taylor plantation in Caroline County, Virginia. After the Civil War, the Reverend Taylor and his congregation built a church and school building with lumber supplied by the federal government. The modern brick sanctuary which stands on Fordson Road today is the fourth church building to serve this congregation, replacing one built in 1930.

In 1986, Loretta Carter Hanes contacted the Gum Springs Historical Society about the significance of the Snowden & Bethlehem Cemetery. Through her efforts, the cemetery was cleared and surveyed. Archaeologists Elizabeth A. Crowell and Norman V. Mackie III volunteered their time to help document this historic Gum Springs landmark.

The cemetery appeared to have two distinct sections. The newer section along Collingwood Road consisted of 106 grave markers arranged in distinct rows. The older section, toward the back and near the trees, was overgrown and difficult to assess. As the area was cleared, surveyors counted approximately 97 graves, most of them marked by fieldstones.

The surveyors completed an index card for each grave marker, noting the type of material, inscription and decorative motif, if any. A photograph was taken and a sketch made of each marker. The graveyard was mapped, showing the location of each grave. For information about this important work, contact the Gum Springs Historical Society, Inc., 8100 Fordson Road, Alexandria, Virginia 22306; (703) 799-1198.

Members of the Fairfax Genealogical Society independently surveyed the Snowden & Bethlehem Cemetery in the spring of 1998. This survey was rechecked in June 1998. Members of the Mount Vernon Genealogical Society also surveyed the cemetery during the summer of 1998. The two surveys were compared and checked against each other. All discrepancies were checked again. Surveyors found the site clean and well maintained.

A sign along Collingwood Road reads:

Snowden & Bethlehem
Cemetery
Bethlehem Baptist Church
Since 1895

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

* Information taken from a 1990 brochure about the Gum Springs Historical Society and their web site at www.Ike-comply.com/fcmn/htm/gshs/gshs.htm.

SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY CEMETERY

South side of Orchard Street, just east of Malcolm Road
Vienna, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 1 of the Gravestone Books

This cemetery is located on the south side of Orchard Street, just east of Malcolm Road, Vienna.

When the gravestones were read in April 1988, the cemetery was in good condition. It contained 114 gravestones. The earliest death date was 1892; the most recent was 1987. There appeared to be many unmarked gravesites.

Update/Corrections/Additions from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY CEMETERY – CORRECTION
Established by the Grand United Order of the Sons and Daughters of Liberty, Lodge No. 9, in 1892, this community cemetery has over one hundred burials, many of them unmarked, and is in current use. The cemetery was surveyed in 1976 and 1988. In comparing the two surveys, we have noted the following correction:

Robert Russell aged 67 yr, 1 mo, 10 dy

22 Aug 1973

SPAULDING FARM

215 Seneca Road
Great Falls, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 1 of the Gravestone Books

A cemetery has been reported at the Patowmack Dairy Farm, 215 Seneca Road, Great Falls. This may be a Bicksler family cemetery.

STEELE FAMILY CEMETERY

8213 Wolf Run Shoals Road
Clifton, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 2 of the Gravestone Books

This cemetery is alongside the road at 8213 Wolf Run Shoals Road (Route 610), Clifton. The site is a square, raised area between a black walnut tree, a cedar and a telephone pole. At least two fieldstones can be seen at the site. Concrete markers at the corners of the lot, reported in a previous survey, were not visible when the site was visited in September 1994.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

STITH FAMILY CEMETERY

May lie on the grounds of the Mount Vernon Unitarian Church at 1909 Windmill Lane
South Alexandria, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 5 of the Gravestone Books

A Stith Family Cemetery may lie on the grounds of the Mount Vernon Unitarian Church at 1909 Windmill Lane in the Hollin Hills area. Fragments of Stith family gravestones were found in the mid twentieth century when the Thorpe family dug up some old stumps at their Hollin Hall estate (q.v.). Hollin Hall was originally the home of Thomson Mason, son of George Mason IV of Gunston Hall.

Buckner Stith is said to have lived in the Mount Hybla area in the late eighteenth century, according to “Hollin Hall: A Twentieth Century Colonial Estate,” a paper prepared by Lisa Falk for a Social History class at Oberlin College in 1979, and on file in the Virginia Room of the Fairfax City Regional Library. In the correspondence of George Washington, reports Becky Toner in “Mason to Wilson to Thorpe to the MVUC” published in the January 1959 issue of the Hollin Hills Bulletin, is a letter from Buckner Stith, written after visiting Thomson Mason at Hollin Hall. Stith wrote: “I would like to be buried a stone’s throw from the spinning house at Hollin Hall.”

The gravestone fragments were still on the property when Mount Vernon Unitarian Church purchased Hollin Hall in 1959. The church, which built a modern sanctuary next to the mansion house, has preserved the fragments.

The Stith fragments were unearthed near three maple trees, according to the Falk paper. Brian Conley, Information Specialist in the Virginia Room of the Fairfax City Regional Library, visited the site in 1994. He thinks that the cemetery may lie “near a large maple tree on the eastern edge of the current [church] property.” It is possible that the Stith family members were buried in a Mason Family Cemetery at Hollin Hall (q.v.). Mr. Conley read the gravestone fragments as follows:

Sacred...the memory of...r. Buckner Stith...Died......
(one piece of a sandstone gravestone)

Sacred to the me......Mrs. Ann......who D...Oct......
(fifteen sandstone gravestone fragments)

Footstone: S. J. S.
(marble footstone)

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

STONE FAMILY CEMETERY

Backyard of 11035 Briarlynn Court
Fairfax Station, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 2 of the Gravestone Books

Located in the backyard of the house at 11035 Briarlynn Court, in Briarlynn Estates, Fairfax Station, this small cemetery lies between the swimming pool and a private soccer field. In 1990, the owner of the home reported to the surveyor that the plot was originally surrounded by a 20-by-20-foot iron fence which was removed for “safety reasons.” At that time, the foundation outline of the Stone family home could still be found about 60 feet north of the graveyard.

The cemetery is overgrown and receives no maintenance. Grass clippings are piled near the two gravestones and perhaps four unmarked burials.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

STONEY LONESOME CEMETERY

Just west of Ox Road (Route 123), on the fringe of Lorton Reformatory
Lorton, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 5 of the Gravestone Books

Stoney Lonesome Cemetery is located in a stand of trees on a small hill just west of Ox Road (Route 123), on the fringe of Lorton Reformatory. The cemetery lies along the southern edge of a small dirt road which leads from Ox Road to a large pond on the reformatory grounds. The dirt road may be accessed just north of the intersection of Ox and Lorton Roads.

The cemetery was surveyed in 1994 and 1998. The 1994 surveyor estimated the size of the cemetery as about 100 feet by 30 feet and noted rows of graves in a north-south alignment. The surveyor estimated that each row contains ten to fourteen burials and that the cemetery may contain between 50 to 100 burials. No grave markers were visible in the overgrown cemetery.

At the time of the 1998 survey, surveyors found the cemetery had recently been cleared of growth. Several small trees had been cut down. The area was clean and neat and a new hand-lettered wooden sign identified the spot as “Stoney Lonesome Cemetary” (sic). Several old cedar trees still stand around the perimeter of the cemetery, screening the graves from the adjacent field which has been graded to a different elevation.

In 1998, several concrete grave markers were noted. One grave was marked with a brick and more bricks were stacked on the edge of the cemetery. At least two concrete grave markers bore the name “Vandyke” and at least two markers were inscribed “Star12,” but it appears that these words and numbers identify the manufacturers of the markers rather than those buried at the site.

According to a note in the cemetery file in the Virginia Room, Fairfax City Regional Library, Ames Funeral Home has reported burials of unclaimed bodies, possibly from the reformatory, in this cemetery into the 1960s.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

STRAWBERRY VALE SLAVE CEMETERY

See Scott Family Cemetery at Strawberry Vale.
McLean, Virginia USA

Not Included in Volume 1 of the Gravestone Books

Update/Corrections/Additions from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

ADDITION: STRAWBERRY VALE SLAVE CEMETERY
See Scott Family Cemetery at Strawberry Vale.

SUGARLAND CHAPEL CEMETERY/ St. TIMOTHY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

In the woods behind the tennis courts in the 1400 block of Powell's Tavern Place
Herndon, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 4 of the Gravestone Books

The cemetery at Sugarland Chapel, also known as Saint Timothy’s Episcopal Church, is on a hill straddling the Fairfax-Loudoun County line north of the town of Herndon. The old Anglican church building has long since disappeared, but evidence of the cemetery still remains in the woods behind the tennis courts in the Crestbrook subdivision. The site may be accessed from the public path to the tennis and basketball courts in the 1400 block of Powell’s Tavern Place. A path leads into the woods behind the tennis courts.

Sugarland Chapel was built to serve the people of the Anglican Cameron Parish, formed from Truro Parish of Fairfax County in 1749, according to Dranesville Methodism by Margaret Lail Hopkins. Cameron Parish became a part of Loudoun County when that county was formed from Fairfax in 1757.

On 10 September 1773, Joshua Evans and his wife Martha deeded three acres of their land to John Carter, trustee for Cameron vestry, “for the use of the said parish and for the purpose of Erecting a church thereon” (Loudoun County Deed Book I, pages 426-427).

Hopkins quotes the following advertisement which appeared in the 4 January 1773 issue of the Virginia Gazette:

TO LET, to the lowest bidder, on the second Monday in March, if fair, if not, the next fair day, on the land of Joshua Evans, in Cameron Parish, Loudoun County.

The building of a brick church 53 x 40, two feet in the clear, and the walls to be 28 feet high from the surface. One hundred and fifty pounds will be paid the undertaker the day the work is let, he giving bond and approved security. Three hundred and fifty pounds more will be paid in June next, and the other payments to be agreed on the day the work is let. Any person inclined to engage in the said building is desired to attend at the time and place appointed.

John Moss, Jeremiah Hutchison, Churchwardens

The people of Cameron Parish worshipped at Liberty Chapel for several years, but after the disestablishment of the Anglican Church following the Revolutionary War, attendance grew sparse and eventually Sugarland Church “fell into disrepair,” according to Hopkins. An article about Sugarland Chapel in the 16 March 1979 issue of the Herndon Observer states that the church had “fallen into a ‘state of decay’” by 1829. An account of the life of Joseph Orrison in the 1 April 1988 issue of the Observer reports that in 1847, Orrison, as trustee for Sugarland Church, petitioned Fairfax County Court “for the addition of a three-acre lot to rebuild the dilapidated and abandoned” chapel. Local tradition maintains that eventually bricks from Sugarland Chapel were transported across Coleman’s Ford and down Leesburg Pike to build Liberty Meeting House (q.v.) near Dranesville.

The ruins of the chapel and the cemetery remained in obscurity for over one hundred years, until subdivision and rezoning issues led to the rediscovery of the site in the late 1970s. Although Joshua and Martha Evans sold their property to the Church of England and its successors forever, the land was somehow conveyed into private ownership around the time of the Civil War. To complicate matters, Loudoun County deed books for that time period are missing.

The cemetery was spared development by Fairfax and Loudoun County zoning decisions, but the publicity led to the discovery of an inscribed gravestone in the old cemetery. The grave marker has since disappeared, but a copy of a photograph which appeared in the 6 June 1979 issue of the Washington Evening Star was obtained by Fairfax Genealogical Society member Nancy Harvey, who has done extensive research on the Lane, Bridges and Evans families. According to Mrs. Harvey, the gravestone read as follows:

[Sac]red
[to the m]emor[y]
Mrs. Ketur[a] Bridges
wife of Benjamin Bridges
who died August 1[1], 1849
in the 6[4] th year of her age
“Good acts . . .”

Note that the numerals “1” and “4” are very difficult to distinguish on an old gravestone, and would be particularly difficult reading from a photograph. The month and year of Ketura Bridges’ death are quite clear, however.

The cemetery was visited in 1987, 1991 and 1997. Today the cemetery may be found on close inspection at the top of the hill behind the tennis courts. Well-worn paths crisscross through the heavily wooded and overgrown area. Near a spot where two paths converge, the brick foundation of Sugarland Chapel, several fieldstone grave markers and gravestone bases can be seen through the thick periwinkle. Near a large tree which has fallen on the church ruins, the 1997 surveyors noted beer cans, and other trash has been strewn through the woods. The 1991 surveyor was told that at one time family members from South Dakota and Michigan took two gravestones inscribed with their family names from the site.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

SUMMERS FAMILY CEMETERY

6250 Lincolnia Road (Route 613)
Lincolnia, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 5 of the Gravestone Books

The Summers Family Cemetery stands at 6250 Lincolnia Road (Route 613) between Deming Avenue and Barnum Lane, not far from the intersection of Lincolnia with Beauregard Street and near the busy Landmark Plaza shopping area. According to research about the Summers family on file in the Virginia Room in the Fairfax City Regional Library, this cemetery is associated with “Cottage Farm” and “Summer Grove,” homes of the Summers family. The community adjacent to the cemetery is still called “Cottage Farms.”

One of the oldest gravestones in the county stands in this cemetery, that of John Summers who died on 4 December 1790, aged 102 years. His obituary in the 9 December 1790 issue of the Alexandria Gazette reads:

Died--Mr. John Summers, in the 103d year of his age. He was born within thirty miles of this place, in the State of Maryland, and settled in the year 1715 in this County, where he resided ever since. He has left children, grand-children, great grand-children, and great-great-grand-children to the number of near four hundred.

A detailed sketch of John Summers’ remarkable life and information about his family appeared in the 8 November and 15 November 1907 issues of the Fairfax Herald. Beth Mitchell mentions John Summers in Beginning at a White Oak..., her book about patents and Northern Neck grants of Fairfax County. She notes that there are many depositions in the county records made by John Summers (Sommers, Symmers) regarding disputes about land which were decided by the courts. Summers testified that he had worked with surveyors in early days and “attended many surveys in the neighborhood of Hunting Creek.” Mitchell states that he was still giving depositions at the age of 98. At the age of 92, he stated that in 1715, he moved from Dogue Neck to the area near Christ Church, and then in 1723, he moved to the “forest” near what is today Bailey’s Crossroads. In 1773, Summers moved “further into the ‘forest’ to his son’s house,” perhaps the house at Summer Grove.

Perhaps because of its historic gravestone and the renown of John Summers, the Summers Family Cemetery has been the subject of much scrutiny over the years. When the homes to the northeast of the cemetery were being constructed in 1979, a researcher visited the site, found the cemetery entangled in vines and recorded the names and dates on the stones.

The Thomas Lee Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution became interested in the cemetery when one of their members discovered the gravesites hidden away in the woods, “entirely grown up with trees, bushes and weeds.” In 1980, the chapter voted to place a DAR plaque on the grave of Francis Summers, son of John Summers, who served in the Revolutionary War, according to a DAR report on file in the Virginia Room. A ceremony on 7 June 1980, honoring Francis Summers and dedicating the plaque, was attended by several people, including Summers family descendants.

But the cemetery became overgrown once again. In 1984, Boy Scout John Zierdt organized other Scouts to clean up the neglected site. The boys cut back vines, poison ivy and brambles, and carried away several old tires and 60 large trash bags filled with litter and garbage.

In 1989, the County took on the responsibility for the maintenance of the cemetery. The site was cleaned once again, a fence was built around the graves, and a paved path was laid through the area from Lincolnia Road to the cemetery and on to Barnum Lane. A county sign posted along Lincolnia Road reads “Summers Cemetery, Fairfax County Park Authority.”

Today the cemetery is well maintained by the county. A black, hollow metal fence with broken gate surrounds the graves. A few of the footstones have been toppled, but otherwise the cemetery appears to be in good repair, free of trash, with little evidence of vandalism. Surveys from 1979, 1980, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992, and 1997 have been compared against each other and the information rechecked in 1998, due to the many discrepancies. The survey begins in the southwest corner of the cemetery.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

SUTHERLAND FAMILY CEMETERY

Near 8207 Ridge Road
Springfield, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 2 of the Gravestone Books

Located near 8207 Ridge Road in the Pohick Hills area of Springfield, this one-acre burial ground serves as a wooded buffer between the older homes on Ridge Road and the newer subdivision which has grown up along the adjacent Ridge Creek Way. Ridge Road is paved up to its intersection with Ridge Creek Way (at 8160 Ridge Road), and then continues unimproved off to the southeast.

There are some fieldstones scattered about this idyllic little spot which lies in a strip alongside Ridge Road, but they do not appear to mark burials. Some trees have been cleared from the area and some neighbors use the land for storage purposes.

According to information on file in the Virginia Room of the Fairfax City Regional Library, Amanda Sutherland inherited this property from the estate of her mother, Patience Hall, the wife of Archibald Hall. Deed Book J6, page 637 reserves the one-acre cemetery for the “heirs at law of the late Amanda Sutherland” (1 March 1902).

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

SYDENSTRICKER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH CEMETERY

Across the road from the new church at 8508 Hooes Road
Springfield, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 2 of the Gravestone Books

This church cemetery is located to the side and behind the old church building which was built in 1910 and is still in use. The new church building is across the road at 8508 Hooes Road (Route 636), in the Sydenstricker Chapel area of Springfield. The cemetery may be entered from the parking lot adjacent to Pohick Community Center. The cemetery is in good condition and well-maintained by the congregation which also maintains Lee Chapel Cemetery in Burke. There are some unmarked graves and several homemade markers. Surveys were conducted in 1973, 1988, and in September 1994. The gravestone readings begin behind the church in the far northeastern corner of the cemetery.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books