PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Simpson Place Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Simpson place:
                  1938 Feb. 15
                  Research made by Susan R. Morton

Cemetery Location:  About 10.5 miles northwest of Occoquan, Virginia, off Route 
                    #610, going about 3 miles through the woods northwest.  At 
                    Bacon Race Church, leave Route #663, taking #610 (Wolf Run 
                    Shoals Road) continuing along to the end of the passable 
                    road (marked as such by a sign) then taking a woods path to 
                    the left and continue about 1.5 miles.
                    Prince William Co., Virginia


DATE:

About 1770. (home site)

OWNERS:

Isaac Davis               1771
Hugh Davis, Sr.           1781
Richard Arrington         1825
John Simpson              1850
Mary and Robert Simpson   1900
Hydro-Electric Power Co.
   of Occoquan            1929 to the present date. [1938]

DESCRIPTION:

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The following are the names that appear on the stones in the cemetery at the 
Simpson Place:


Catherine A. Simpson
Born May 1st, 1817
Died --- 1872


John W. Simpson
Born March 6th, 1815
Died Sept. 10, 1888


John R. Simpson
son of John W. and C.A. Simpson
February 10th, 1847
May 20, 1903


Robert E. Simpson
1853 – 1931


Hattie V. Simpson
1867 – 1926


Emma G.
wife of S. E. Ashford
February 13th, 1851
June 17th, 1914


Silas E. Ashford
December 9, 1850
June 1, 1917


Wm. F.
son of John W. and Catherine A. Simpson
died September 27th, 1846
age 2 years, 4 months, 23 days


Julia F.
daughter of Thomas J. and Mary Simpson
born May 1885


Thomas J. Simpson
born November 18th, 1821
died February 16th, 1898


Mary Simpson
Born March 4th, 1818
Died May 27th, 1909


Dorcas A. Simpson
May 25th, 1857
December 9th, 1933




SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  Mrs. Henry Purcell, Occoquan, Virginia
             Mr. Rton, Occoquan, Virginia

Tombstone Inscriptions

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