LOUDOUN:  CEMETERY RECORDS – BALL 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 Ball graveyard:
                  1936 Dec. 10
                  Research made by Elizabeth Morgan

Cemetery Location:  North of Leesburg, Virginia, on Route #15, between junction 
                    #7 and #655 west side of #15.
                    Loudoun County





Is located at “Springwood” near the Big Spring.

Before Mr. Samuel Lutz’s death in 1918, Captain George Washington Ball, grandson 
of Colonel Burgess Ball, sent his a diagram and an account of the graveyard 
which is as follows:

“The site of this family cemetery was selected and staked off in 1799, by 
Colonel Burgess Ball himself, in anticipation of his own death, which occurred a 
few months later.  It so happened that he was destined after all, not to find in 
it his resting place.  A deep fall of snow having hidden the stakes, the servant 
charged with preparing his grave, mistook the order and dug lower down, in the 
midst of a neglected burying-ground of old Colonial times, surrounding the ruins 
of a log meeting house, which once stood at the head of the famous “Big Spring.”

Here he lay, unnoticed and unknown for nearly half a century, until 1850, when I 
succeeded, after repeated excavations, in identifying the exact spot by the 
discovery of the brass coffin plate bearing his name.  In the meantime the site 
first selected by him had been adopted by the remaining members of the family 
and enclosed with a wooden fence, which had so entirely rotted away that I 
replaced it with the present open-work wall of masonry.  The remains were then 
buried in this little cemetery at the top of the hill where sleep a number of 
the family, and descendants of Colonel Burgess Ball.  The daughter, and Sons of 
the Revolution, came from Washington D.C. and placed their mark on the grave.”

The tombstone inscriptions are as follows:


Colonel Burgess Ball
Son of Jeduthun and Elizabeth (Burgess) Ball
born July 28, 1749
Died March 7, 1900
A Patriot of Liberty in the Revolution
Erected By the Will of Miss Virginia M. Long


Burgess
son of Geo. Washington Ball and
Mary Beverley Randolph
Mar. 10, 1854, Dec. 26, 1880
When I awake, I am still with thee