PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – “Dipple” Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Graveyard at Dipple:
                  1937 Nov. 26
                  Research made by Susan R. Morton

Cemetery Location:  This is now located at the U. S. Marine Base at Quantico, 
                    Virginia, and is about two miles from the entrance of the 
                    same.  Permission to visit this site must be obtained from 
                    the Officer of the Day, and as there are several ways to 
                    reach this spot – through the flying field, another back of 
                    the target practice field, the way must be found out at the 
                    time.
                    Prince William Co., Virginia


DATE:

 Earliest date on the tombstone that is decipherable is 1718.

OWNERS:

This was the home of the Reverend Alexander Scott and later of his brother, 
James Scott, first minister at  Dumfries.

DESCRIPTION:

This old graveyard is located at the edge of the woods, just beyond the practice 
field.  It is quite unseen until close upon it.  It covers about half an acre 
and is surrounded by a high stone wall with a style type entrance.

There are many of the stones the lettering of which is so worn, that it is 
almost entirely obliterated.  Others appear to have had no inscriptions but the 
initials, and these are worn away.  Nearly all the stones are the table type, 
large marble slabs with elaborate carving, the most of them with a skull and 
cross bones, and cherub at the head, hour glass at the front and some family 
crest.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The stone themselves explain much of the history by the inscriptions found on 
them.  The legible inscriptions are as follows:


In Memory of
Robert Horner
born January 21st, 1718 in Ripon, England
Died September 8th, 1773
married Ann, daughter of Gustavius Brown, M.D.


Here lyes the body of
Christine
the wife of John Graham
and daughter of Doctor Gustavius Brown
who departed this life the 7th of September 1742
in the 23rd year of her age
Who had been married not quite two months
There was no person more universally esteemed or more sincerely lamented by her 
acquaintences.


In Memory of
Harrison Stone
son of Barton and Sarah
who departed this life March the 10th, 1810
In the 63rd year of his age
leaving a widow and four children to lament the loss of a king
husband, and an indulgent parent and friend of all mankind.


Sacred to the memory of
Richard Marshall  Scott
eldest son of Gustavius Hall Scott
born May 11th, 1807
died September 21st, 1847


Memento Hori
Here lyes the body of the
Reverend Alexander Scott 
A. M. and Presbyter of the Church of England
who for nearly twenty-eight years was Minister of Overwharton Parish.
He died in the 53d year of his life, 
he being born the 20th day of July A.D. 1687
departed this life the first day of April, 1738


Here lies the body of
Frances
the wife of Gustavius Brown
of Charles County, Maryland
By her he had 12 children, of whom 1 son and 7 daughters survive her.
She was the daughter of Mr. Gerard Fowkes
late of Maryland, descending from the Fowkes of
Gunston Hall in Staffordshire.
She was born February 16 and died, much lamented,
on the 8th day of November in the 54th year of her age

(The above is on a large marble slab placed directly on the ground and badly 
cracked and time-worn: by the side of it is a granite stone with the following 
which follows the inscription above, which is on the old slab. “The above 
epitaph, copied from the old gravestone now mouldering at its feet was the 
tribute of a mourning husband to a beloved wife, one hundred and sixty years 
ago.”)
“Among the descendants of the seven daughters mentioned in it, are many widely 
scattered between the lakes of Canada and the gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic 
Ocean and the Mississippi, bearing honored names, but whose names gave them the 
clue to their descent from their remarkable ancester, Frances Fowke.

To enable those who are aware of it to visit her last resting place, and to 
identify and preserve it, a great-grandson of the eldest daughter, Frances, wife 
of the Reverend John Moncure, at the time of Aquia and Potomac Churches, and 
whose remains, with those of his wife, rest in the church first mentioned near 
the altar, has raised this tablet of granite bearing on the surface a durable 
copy to be erected to her memory.”




SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  Mrs. Callahan, Alexandria, Virginia
             Mr. Thomas Botts, Washington, D.C.
             Mr. J. H. Reid, Dumfries, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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