In November 2009, surveyors located this family cemetery on a residential property in Fairfax Station. The 20-foot square cemetery is surrounded by a wire fence and is well maintained. There are six burials in the cemetery. Mary Alice and John H. Fairfax (farmer, laborer) are buried there with their two sons, Willie and Ollie. In [...]
Gossom Family Cemetery - Lost and Found
In November 2009, the surveyors were only able to locate this cemetery with the help of a diagram/map made by an earlier surveyor ( 1995) and by guesswork. Casual observers would never see this cemetery, which is located at the top of a long incline, west of a pipeline, [...]
The Iones Family cemetery is located in Fairfax Station between two homes on Innisvale Road. Lt. Robert Clarendon Iones and his wife Hannah Nevins are buried there. The survey, completed in November 2009, found the cross grave marker and foot stones are covered by leaves and brush. The foot stones appear to be at the [...]
William C. Preston’s grave site is located at the 18th hole of a golf course in Centreville, Virginia. In November 2009 , the surveyors found the head and foot stone in good condition surrounded by a split rail fence. The inscription is difficult to read due to dirt on the stone.
From an earlier survey, the [...]
