PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – “The Homestead” Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Homestead:
                  1937 Mar. 18
                  Research made by Susan R. Morton

Cemetery Location:  6 miles north of Haymarket, Virginia, on Route #601, thence 
                    1 mile east on the same road.
                    Prince William Co., Virginia


DATE:

Unknown.

OWNERS:

Burwell
Tyler
Forsythe
Forsythe heirs         to 1907
Thomas Smith           1907 to present (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

(A description of the house and gardens has not been recanted in this space but 
can be located in the original document at the Library of Virginia.)

Some 300 feet to the west of the house is the graveyard, a .25 acre, covered 
with English Ivy and filled with box and other shrubs.  There are numerous 
graves that have no inscriptions.  Some are soldiers graves.

Inscriptions:


In memory of
James Forsythe
Born May 24th, 1804
died February 24th, 1886
aged 81 years


Cecelia B. Forsythe
died Dec. 30th, 1870
aged 80 years


Jane C. Forsythe
born December 15th, 1840
died December 27th, 1906
aged 65


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  R. B. Gossam
             Mr. Smith
             Mrs. Geo. Smith, formerly Miss Forsythe.

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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