PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – “Tebbsdale” Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Tebbsdale site:
                  1937 Nov. 9
                  Research made by Susan R. Morton

Cemetery Location:  On the old Carborough road, to the east, about 2.5 miles on 
                    the left side going from Drumfries, Virginia.
                    Prince William Co., Virginia


DATE:

Approximately 1742.

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.)


HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

To the west of the home site is the cemetery now overgrown and filled with 
slashings from the lumbering operations that surround it, for the entire tract 
is heavily wooded, or was until the lumber company began cutting.  Many of the 
stones are broken and some have been carried away, so I was told, and one grave, 
at least, had been opened by man or beast, and it appeared to have been the 
former.  The Masonic inscriptions on two of these stones are the most complete 
that I have seen any where, and the entire graveyard is surely worthy of 
preservation.  The following inscriptions are all that are left:


In Memory of
Willoughby William Tebbs
who departed this life November 25, 1832
aged 82 years


In Memory of
Colonel Willoughby Tebbs
who departed this life October 22, 1803
aged 44 years


In Memory of 
Betsy Tebbs
wife of Willoughby Tebbs
who was born October 6, 1881
and died the 18th of March, 1852


In Memory of
Dr. Foushee Tebbs
son of Willoughby and Betsy Tebbs
born January 22, 1797
died December 12, 1835


John Spence
who was born July 11, 1766 at Moffat,
a village at the south of Scotland
came to America in 1787
died the 18th day of May, 1820
in the town of Dumfries, Prince William County, Virginia


The Tebbs family was one of the most prominent of the early settlers of 
Dumfries.  Daniel Tebbs left the following children: Hannah, Margaret, Daniel, 
James, William, Foushee, George and Charlotte.  Of these Foushee is mentioned 
the most, and he became one of the leading men of Dumfries, a member of the 
House of Burgesses, and it was he who built the famous old “Mundy House” that 
was the scene of so much of the history of the time.  Among the numerous 
connections in which he is mentioned are the following, taken from Order Book 3, 
to be seen at the Court House at Manassas.  “Foushee Tebbs, Gent. having 
produced a Commission from under the hand of his Honor, the Governor, appointing 
him Captain of a troop of horse within the County of Prince William, took the 
oaths appointed by the Act of Parliament to be taken and supervised the test as 
a military officer”.  “Ordered that Foushee Tebbs, Henry Lee, George Brett and 
Allen McCrae, Gent. or any three of them do agree with workmen to repair the 
wharf and crane at Quantico Warehouse landing, and also to build a sufficient 
roof to cover the scales at the said warehouse”.  He was also given a Sheriff’s 
bond in 1761.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  Mr. Walter Keys
             Mr. Brawner
             Mr. Amberton

Tombstone Inscriptions

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