PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Harris Cemetery ----¤¤¤---- Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Harris graveyard: 1937 June 15 Research made by Susan R. Morton Cemetery Location: 4.5 miles east of Dumfries, Virginia, on Route #1, thence 200 yds north across Neabsco Run by private road. Prince William Co., Virginia OWNERS: Unknown. DESCRIPTION: The table type stone is about fifty feet from Neabsco Run, in a little clump of oaks. There was until a few years ago, a crude pavillion over the stone, but some “tourists” tore it down and used it for fire wood, so that now while there is a constant stream of traffic within a few rods of the spot, there are but few who realize that here is perhaps the oldest grave in Prince William. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: There has been considerable controversy over the grave, some claiming the date to by 1608. There has even been the story printed, it is said, that this man was one of Shakespeare’s pallbearers which is the date of 1698, surely leaves without any foundation. However there have been references to a Harris, in some old records, as a land owner, which may have been of the same family. The slab is supported by crude legs and the inscription is surmounted by a cherub and what is meant for a sword. The inscription follows: Here lyes ye body of Lieutenant William Harris, who died May 16th, 1698 aged 65 years by birth a Britian a good soldier, a good husband, a good neighbor SOURCES OF INFORMATION: Tombstone Inscriptions Visit by worker. ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Joan Renfrow NOTICE: I have no relationship or further information in regards to this family. ___________________________________________________________________