FCCPA member Maddy McCoy sent the following letter to the Editor of The Washington Post. It appeared in the Tuesday, June 22, 2010 edition, page A18 under the headline Respect the dead — and history.
It has been disheartening to learn of the careless treatment of veterans’ remains and gravestones at Arlington National Cemetery ["Arlington headstones [...]
Kings Park West Civic Association, The HERALD, March 2010 Vol 41, Issue 2
By Tony Vellucci
A previous edition of The Herald introduced you to Ben and Mary Fairfax whose cemetery is located on Richardson Drive. That edition also told of upcoming articles that would provide more information about them. The following is made [...]
Kings Park West Civic Association, The HERALD, December 2009, Vol 40, Issue 8
By Tony Vellucci & John Browne
If there was a Trivial Pursuit game about Kings Park West, one of the questions might be “Where can you find a small family cemetery holding the remains of members of the Fairfax family?” Many of you [...]
Fairfax Genealogical Society
Fairfax Genealogical Society Newsletter
Vol 25, Number 1, September 2009
THE OLD DOMINION CORNER
Fairfax County Cemetery Preservation
By Barbara Ellis
“A precious one from us has gone…” begins the inscription for Mary J. Marshall on the 14-foot monument in the family plot for Mary and her husband, John A. Marshall. John Marshall, whose family had connections [...]
Burke Connection
ByDerek B. Johnson
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
When the Marshall family cemetery in Burke was vandalized last April, some residents blamed the sight line. The small plot had become overrun with brush and trees.
Hidden behind a wall adjacent to a 7-Eleven, the stone monument signifying the presence of the unmarked graves was virtually undetectable. That lack [...]
History Commissioners want to start watch group to protect historic cemeteries.
Burke Connection
By Amber Healy
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
The final resting-place of John and Mary Marshall is hidden from view, behind a broken fence and a land berm from the old Orange and Alexandria Railroad.
A tall, marble obelisk pays tribute to both Marshalls, honoring the first postmaster [...]
