Cemetery

Cartersville Baptist Church Cemetery

Sons and Daughters Cemetery

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.
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West End Cemetery

This cemetery is located on the west side of the 500 block of Lewis Street, off Lawyers Road, in Vienna. According to an article in the 26 May 1988 Vienna Times by Carol Bonham, this cemetery is on land once owned by Capt. Harmon L. Salsbury where he…

Snowden and Bethlehem Cemetery

The land was transferred from Stacey and Elizabeth Snowden to the Trustees of Bethlehem Baptist Church in the early 1900s. The cemetery includes formal markers, fieldstones, concrete and wooden markers, and funeral home markers.

Coleman Cemetery

This is a historically African American Cemetery. The land for this cemetery was purchased by the Churches and Fraternities Association of Alexandria on Oct. 27, 1944. It appears that many of the older graves were relocated from an Odd Fellows…

Peake Family Cemetery

This cemetery is the final resting place of both Black and White residents of Gum Springs. The Peake family owned the property from 1762-1805. The Peake family held 3 enslaved people and the area is believed to have been an enslaved cemetery. West…

Shiloh Baptist Cemetery

Woodlawn Cemetery

Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery

Five acres of land were purchased from the heirs of Charles Elgin in 1903 for church purposes and a burial ground.

Pleasant Grove Cemetery

The Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1882. By 1893, the congregation had enough funding to purchase an acre of land for a church building and cemetery. An original trustee, Samuel Sharper, died in 1895, before church…

Guinea Road Cemetery

Archaeological Investigation Report:In 2004, Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) announced the widening of Guinea Road and Little River Turnpike. Neighbors volunteered there was a cemetery located at the intersection. VDOT ‘s announcement…

Ford-Ellis-Syms Cemetery

The cemetery is located about 100' north of the house. Dogwood trees line the north, west, and south sides of the 30'x 60' plot. Periwinkle is growing under the trees and on some graves. There are 12 clearly discernible grave depressions, four of…

Jackson Family Cemetery

The history of the cemetery goes back to 1873 when Jeremiah Mannie Jackson (1816 – 1912) purchased 184 acres from Ansel and Mary Wheedon of Vermont in the Sideburn/Burke area. Jeremiah and his wife Martha farmed the land and had eleven children.…

Robinson, Pearson, Hicks Family Cemetery

The Fairfax County cemetery survey said “the small cemetery contains seven headstones and an undetermined number of unmarked burials. Permission to resurvey the cemetery in 1994 was denied, according to the Fairfax County Cemetery Survey.”
The…

Strawberry Vale

From the county cemetery survey: FX382:
"Strawberry Vale" was built c. 1780 and was demolished in 1958 for the construction of the Capital Beltway. Diane Rafuse wrote in her book "Maplewood" (1970): "Near the wooded area (about 300 yards from the…

Scott Family Cemetery

"Strawberry Vale" was built c. 1780 and was demolished in 1958 for the construction of the Capital Beltway. The transfer of Strawberry Vale from JOHN C. SCOTT to THEODORIC LEE on Oct. 29, 1811 (Deed Book L2:318) exempted a ¼-acre burial ground. Diane…

Unnamed Cemetery on Lee Highway

A single-family home exists was built at the address in 1971.

Clifton Union Cemetery

The minutes of the Union Cemetery Club showed that a meeting was held June 10, 1899, to acquire land for a "burying place for colored people." The land was purchased on June 25, 1899. The cemetery is fenced and contains over one hundred burials, many…

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