FAUQUIER:  CEMETERY RECORDS –  OAK SPRING CEMETERY

Contributed by:  Joan Renfrow

NOTICE:  I have no relationship or further information in regards to this 
family.  

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Oak Spring grave yard:
                  1937 Mar. 17
                  Research made by Francis B. Foster

Cemetery Location:  On Oak Spring Farm, .7 mile north of Warrenton, Virginia, on 
                    Route #15, thence .25 mile northeast of road.
                    Fauquier County




The place is almost a wilderness and most of the stones mossy and impossible to 
read.

There are more than one hundred fifty white people buried here, all having died 
prior to 1860.  At some of the graves rough stones were placed.

There is also a colored burying ground on the place.


Sacred to the memory of
Colonel William Edmonds
Died February 19, 1816
Aged 81 years


Sacred to the memory of
Elizabeth Blackwell
wife of Colonel William Edmonds
Died February 28, 1817
Aged 75 years


Sacred to the Memory of
Stephen French
Born in Price William County, Va.
on the 29th of July 1804
Died near Warrenton Virginia
on August 5, 1827


One monument to the Payne Family
G.H. Payne Died 1822
C.E. Payne Died 1836
T.E. Payne Died 1819
J.H. Payne Died 1819
C.W. Payne Died 1830
A.H. Payne Died 1833
R.A. Payne Died 1833