FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA - Rebecca Kirby Marders, 1825 - 1882

Buried in Marders Family Cemetery Lorton, Fairfax County, VA 


Rebecca Kirby Marders, wife of James S. Marders, and daughter of James Abraham Kirby, Jr, with nine or more others, 
is buried in this small cemetery, once with a headstone engraved; "Until the daybreaks and the shadows flee away to
our mother ...". 

Rebecca's mother, Susanna Elizabeth Boggess' parents were Vincent Boggess & Elizabeth Bailey, he, fifth of nine known 
children of Robert Boggess (1707-1772) & Ann Cox (c1712-c1785) who built original "LaGrange" home in 1742 (year Fairfax 
County was created) on land they started accumulating in 1730, along, northerly (left) bank of Pohick run, west of the 
Potomic river, in Prince William County. Rebecca & James' daughter Susie B. married William R. Ward whose descendant sold 
"LaGrange" in 1974 when the replacement home, built following the Civil War on original foudation, was lost to a fire in 
February 1972.

Some lands of the "LaGrange" remained in the Boggess blood line for just a bit short of 250 years, until 1974 when sold to 
a developer, who in turn sold it to Fairfax County.

Robert had built a horse race track where George Mason, while his "Gunston Hall" was being built in 1758, wrote a letter to 
George Washington, prior to their severed relationship, this track where gentlemen enjoyed showing and racing their mounts, 
as well as his home, used as an ordinary and stage coach station, because of location. 

First Pohick church was built 1724, before the 1732 establiskment of Truro Parish, on south side of Pohick run. Its 1769 
approved replacement (completed 1774), was one mile north both attended by locals as required by English law, including 
George Washington and family, with second structure restored and proudly on display today. 

The home, "LaGrange", was located mid-way between the two church locations, on east side of Colchester road, at what later 
was, 9501 Old Colchester Road, with most of its land now part of Fort Belvoir, named for "Belvoir Manor", the home built a 
year prior to "LaGrange" by William Fairfax, brother of Lord Thomas Fairfax, where both resided until Lord Thomas moved to 
Frederic County, southeast of Winchester (now Clarke County). 

Rebecca's grandfather, Robert Boggess, was among the four longest serving vestrymen, (of eighty-one) of 1732 established 
Truro Parish (Church Warden four times), 20 years, along with George Washington, 22 years, Daniel McCarty & George Mason 
each 36 years, the last three being court ordered in 1773 to; "....allot the dower of Ann (Cox) Turner [Robert Boggess' widow] 
wife of Fielding Turner, Gent.". 

Within Letters of George Washington are several referring with the Boggess name. One, his dissappointment in ability of Robert, 
bachelor son of Robert and Ann's, older brother to Vincent, ability to provide him a good farm overseer, and in one of the last 
letters, December 10, 1799, before his death on the 14th, turning down a request for a loan made by said son Robert.

Sources:
'Baugus, Boggus, & Boggess Footprints On The Sands Of Time', Vol. I,1993, Vol. II, 1994 & Supplements. Copyrighted by Joanna Fox, 
Drakesboro, Kentucky & JoAnn Smith, Vida, Oregon 

The History of Truro Parish in Virginia by Rev. Philip Slaughter, D.D.: Edited With Notes and Addenda by Rev. Edward L. Goodwin 
Historiographer of the Diocese of Virginia: Published by George W. Jacobs & Company, Publishers, Philadelphia, 1907 
www.newrivernotes.com/va/truro1.htm

George Washington letters.


Marders Family Cemetery is located on what was La Grange property and starting in 2007 used by Fairfax County to bury its indigents. 

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Bill BOGGESS billboggess@webtv.net 

html site with photo:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/fairfax/marders.html