PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – The Old Graveyard

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The old graveyard:
                  1937 July 22
                  Research made by Susan R. Morton

Cemetery Location:  To the east of Route #9, .5 mile from Occoquan, Virginia, 
                    taking Route #9 at Occoquan and going one fourth mile, 
                    thence east towards the river about two hundred feet from 
                    any cleared spot to the left on the river’s edge.
                    Prince William Co., Virginia


DATE:

Said to be over a hundred years old. (1937)

OWNERS:

This appears to have been a part of the Champe grant from the Proprietor’s 
Office, later sold to John Ballandine, and then coming into the hands of Henry 
Selecman.  There is a record in Deed Book #37, folio 245, recording the sale of 
a tract of land here by William Selecman; the estate of Henry Selecman was sold 
to Corintha S. Giles; this was in 1887 and the graveyard was reserved.  It 
appears to have been private property.

DESCRIPTION:

It covers a large area, and there are several lots enclosed by iron fences, now 
rusted, and the gates are impossible to open.  One lot is surrounded by a brick 
wall, but there is not a stone within that has any inscription.  The honeysuckle 
and periwinkle are so thick that many of the stones are completely hidden, and 
it is only be stumbling over them that they are found.  The thick growth and 
almost semi-darkness make it very difficult to decipher the inscriptions that 
remain.  It is located on a bluff by the side of the river, and directly 
opposite the Lorton Reformatory across the river.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The following are the inscriptions that it was possible to read:


Bohannon
(one large granite stone with nothing but that name.)


Charles L. Swann
born February 1st, 1862
died January 8th, 1887
From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, where my 
heart if
___ ___ ___, to the rock,
___ ___ ___, that is higher than I.


In loving remembrance of my beloved Father and Mother.
John Wallace Greg
born 1810
died 1900
and
_____ _____
born 1808
died 1900


In Memory of
Rachael
wife of Andrew Woolchiser
born March 21st, 1819
died February 17th, 18__


Viola Carter
born May 1st, 1855
died June 28th, 1887
Gone but not forgotten, we hope you are at rest as a prayer
from her surviving children.


Minnie G. Posey
died 1878
aged 11 years


In loving remembrance of
John Thomas Turner
Oct. 16th, 1850
May 1911
Dearest loved one we have laid thee in the peaceful grave’s embrace,
But thy memory will be cherished till we see thy Heavenly face.


In loving remembrance of
Mary E. _____
Wife of Wm.
born Feb. 8th, 1828
died March 18th, 1889


(name chipped off)
“Gone Home”
Farewell to thee our darling Mother dear, life is sad without thee here,
May we meet in Heaven above where all is peace and love.

(The above three were taken from stones enclosed by a high iron fence, as one 
name was Turner it is probable that they were all of the same family.)



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  Mrs. William Lynn, Occoquan, Virginia
             Mrs. G. S. Selecman, Occoquan, Virginia
             Mrs. F. W. Barnes, Occoquan, Virginia

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