PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Rison Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Rison graveyard:
                  1938 Apr. 11
                  Research made by Susan R. Morton

Cemetery Location:  Located on land now owned by Mr. Powell Davis, of 
                    Woodbridge, Virginia.  Formerly a part of the Deep Hole 
                    Taylor tract.
                    Prince William Co., Virginia


DATE:

1698, date of only grave.

OWNERS:

Powell David [1938]

DESCRIPTION:

This old graveyard is close to the river and nearly hidden in undergrowth.  
There are two graves but one stone is too defaced to read.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


The stone marking a grave on which a large oak is now growing, is inscribed:

Thre----- Rison
Daughter of Bur--- Rison
Died 1698, aged 16 days



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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