FAUQUIER:  CEMETERY RECORDS – WAITE 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, The Waite graveyard:
                  1937 Apr. 2
                  Research made by M. D. Gore

Cemetery Location:  From Bristersburg proceed south on Route #616 2 miles; 
                    thence from the intersection with Route #637, proceed 
                    northeast 500 yards to a house on private road; thence 
                    north-northeast 480 yards across a field to a clump of 
                    cedars on a knoll at edge of woods.
                    Fauquier County




A clump of cedar trees marks the site of this graveyard.  One dead cedar has 
blown on top the middle tombstone.  There is no fence around the graves.  The 
three tombstones are about two feet wide and nearly three feet high.  They face 
the east.


In Memory of
Jane Waite
who departed this life 
the 4 day of Nov. 1794


In Memory of
Mathew Waite
Born 22 of Feb. 1735
and Departed this life 
the 1 of Oct. 1763
Aged 28 years & 7 months


In Memory of
William Waite 
a Native of the Island of Great Britain
Born 1st of Jan. 1700 Came to Virginia 1751
and Departed this life the 10th day of
Nov. 1782 being nearly 83 years of age