PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Broad Run Church Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, site of Broad Run Church:
                  1937 May 6
                  Research made by Susan R. Morton

Cemetery Location:  6 miles east of Nokesville, Virginia, about a mile east 
                    junction of Routes #619 and #649.
                    Prince William Co., Virginia


DATE:

About 1752.

OWNERS:

George Slater had a grant in 1729 for land on what is now known as Slater’s Run.  
It is on a part of this land that Broad Run Church was contracted for in 1752.  
I am told that this is now in the hands of the Diocess of Virginia.  For many 
years this seemed to be public property.  The brick was hauled away, the lumber 
out and general use made of it.

DESCRIPTION:

It is very easy to pass by this site without recognizing it as such.  It is 
located in a tract of woodland and it is difficult to realize that there is a 
graveyard located there.  Some myrtle was the clue that led me to the spot.

Going in from the road some sixty feet, one sees an occasional brick and then it 
is not hard to trace the foundation of the old church, which was spare and of 
considerable size.

The old graveyard surrounding the church covers a large area, which is 
completely covered with trees of considerable size, thick undergrowth, and as 
there has been some lumbering done there lately (1937), the slashings from that.  
It is almost impossible to get many of the stones, being necessary to wade knee-
deep in dead leaves and slashings and as nearly all the stones are much worn and 
broken, there were only a few that the inscriptions could be read.  This 
graveyard covers so much space that I am afraid that I missed many of the 
stones, especially if they were flat stones so common in old cemeteries.  I am 
told that this spot has been cut over twice and there are some very large stumps 
directly over graves, besides those recently cut.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

When  Dettigen Parish was taken from Hamilton, in 1745, there were two churches 
in the parish, one at Dumfries and the other known as Broad Run, being near both 
Broad Run and Slater Run.  The contract for the church at Broad Run was made in 
1752.  The first minister being the Reverend James Scott, who divided his time 
between the church at Dumfries and this one.  At this death, his son took his 
place but after his resignation in 1784, the Reverend Spence Grayson was 
selected to fill his place, which he continued to hold for some years.  The 
first vestrymen were John Bryant, Wm. Peyton, Joseph Shannon, James Gray and 
George Carter.  Other names closely associated with Broad Run Church are 
Ashmore, Giles Brent, Bristoe, Dade, Foote, Fox, French, Ham, Ward, Hunton, 
Sibson, Stuart, Latimer, Muschett and others.

The following inscriptions were taken from the cemetery:


In Memory of
Sarah Burroughs
wife of John Burroughs of Prince William County
Who departed this life, November 18th,
nearly 67 years
17__ - 1788


J. P.
1825
(On large brown stone marker with crude cross.)


In Memory of
Enos Valance
Prince William County
Died 17_5


In Memory of
Wellington S. Brisco
Died October __ 1825
aged 5 months


In Memory of
Raymond
son of Tyler and Carrie Pullin
died July 30, 1795
Aged ___


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  Mrs. Celeste Brown, Nokesville, Virginia
             Mr. Charles Callahan, Alexandria, Virginia

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