PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Saint Paul’s Episcopal Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Saint Paul’s Episcopal Cemetery:
                  1937 Feb. 25
                  Research made by Susan R. Morton

Cemetery Location:  Haymarket, Virginia, west side of Fayette Street, 500 feet 
                    south of Route #55.
                    Prince William Co., Virginia


DATE:

About 1862.

OWNERS:

Land was owned by William Skinker, prior to 1799, now owned by Saint Paul’s 
Episcopal Church, and held in trust by Vestry.

DESCRIPTION:

About eighty Confederate soldiers were buried here at the beginning of the War 
Between the States, and some of the makers of the early history of this 
community.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The Confederate soldiers who were buried here and the following:


Sarah Hulfish
wife of George Hulfish
born 1818
died 1885
A devoted wife a loving mother and kind friend,
We hope to meet in Heaven.


Edmund Berkeley
Lt. Col. 8th Va. Infantry
Born 1824
died 1915
Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.


Mary Berkeley
wife of Col. Edmund Berkeley
born 1827
died 1894
I know my sheep and am known by them.


Wm. Meade
born 1824
died 1891
And I heard a voice from Heaven, as the voice of many
waters, and as the voice of great thunders, and I heard
a voice of harpers harping on their harps.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  Mr. Charles Gills
             Miss Maud Ewell 
             of Haymarket, Virginia

Court Records:  Prince William County, Virginia.

Tombstone Inscriptions

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