In April 2011, FCCPA members toured the cemetery on Main Street in Fairfax, Virginia with long-time city resident Lee Hubbard.
The cemetery was started in 1866 by the Ladies Memorial Association to honor the Confederates of the Civil War. The Confederate monument’s marker inscription reads:
“From Fairfax to Appomattox 1861-1865. Erected to the memory of the fallen sons of Fairfax, whose names are inscribed on this monument, but whose bodies lie buried on distant battlefields and to the memory of their 200 unknown comrades whose remains are at rest beneath this mound. These were men whom death could not terrify – whom defeat could not dishonor.”
The cemetery contains the resting places of many Fairfax City and Fairfax County families. Historian William Page Johnson II wrote of his ten favorite people buried in Fairfax City Cemetery for the Fall 2005 The Fare Facs Gazette newsletter (link below). His list included a woman lawyer, a very young Rebel, a pioneer aviator, politicians, more lawyers, and a general store owner. Lee Hubbard’s tour included governors and mayors and even a family pet who was “accidentally” buried in the cemetery. Today, the approximate 10 acre cemetery is owned and maintained by the City of Fairfax.
