FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Bethel Baptist Church:
                  1936 Feb. 25
                  Research made by Haywood Cleveland McMullan



Mrs. Iden says this church, Bethel Baptist, was used as a Hospital and her farm 
was a camping ground for the Federal Army.  Her mother boarded 4 officers and 
she remembers an argument at a table between the officers.  One of them said if 
he had the nerve Mosby had he could whip the whole Confederate Army.  She could 
remember only 2 names, one was Capt. Bean and the other was McRae who was killed 
at Dranesville and his pants were brought to their house and they were full of 
bullet holes.  Mrs. Iden has lived here on this farm for 76 years and her Mother 
and Father owned it before her when it was owned by Temple and Sarah Smith.  
Laurence Leigh has their old Bible which dates back to 1790.  He is located at 
Browers Chapel.

There is an old graveyard to the right of this church with inscriptions:


Jacob I. Iden
Born 1830
Died 1859


Matilda Richards
Died June 2nd 1817


Jane Tyman
Departed this life Mar 16th 1817
aged 76 years


James Tyman
Feb 22nd 1838
aged 40 years


Rutland Young
Died 11th of July 1850
in the 84 year of his age


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