• Current Projects, Jermantown Cemetery

    Posted on November 15th, 2011

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    Jermantown Cemetery: Cleanup

    Jermantown Cemetery: Cleanup

    On a crisp fall day, community volunteers joined together to spruce up this African American Cemetery in Fairfax City. Since there are no more trustees to care for the cemetery, Fairfax City has maintained the mowing of the cemetery. Members of the FCCPA, Burke Historical Society, and Historic Fairfax cleared brush, picked up trash, and [...]

  • Civil War Honor Roll, Jermantown Cemetery, Lamb_George

    Posted on July 8th, 2011

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    George C. Lamb

    George C. Lamb

    George C. Lamb, “Uncle George”
    Born 1834
    Died March 19, 1926
    Place of birth and place of death: Fairfax County, Virginia
    Buried Jermantown Cemetery near Intersection Rt. 50 and Route 29 in Fairfax, VA
    How died: Influenza
    Military Service: Confederacy- one of six known Black Confederates from Fairfax County
    Military rank: Body Servant to Capt. William H. Dulany
    Unit Co. D., 17th Va [...]

  • Current Projects, Jermantown Cemetery

    Posted on April 28th, 2010

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    Jermantown Cemetery

    Jermantown Cemetery

    The Jermantown Cemetery was established in 1868 for black residents who could not be buried in the Fairfax City Cemetery near the courthouse. For over one hundred years blacks have been buried there, most recently in 1980. There are over 40 headstones and an undetermined number of unmarked graves. Notable among those buried in the [...]