Arundell Family Cemetery

Here follows an excerpt from the Fairfax County Genealogical Society website:

Original Information from Volume 2 of the Gravestone Books

The Arundell Family Cemetery is located near Donovan's Corner, the intersection of Ox Road (Route 123) and Burke Lake Road (Route 645), on the grounds of “Brimstone Hill” at 6821 Ox Road, Fairfax Station.

Brimstone Hill was built about 1840 by Charles Arundell, who ran an ordinary on the site, says Paul Brown, the current owner of the home. During the Civil War, it was referred to as “Arundel's Farm,” according to a 1971 Historic American Buildings Survey. An 1883 Record of Roads survey mentioned “C. A. Arundel's Old Stand on the Ox Road.”

Ranger Mosby by Virgil Carrington Jones contends that the Arundells were Union sympathizers during the Civil War. They arranged for the Union forces to attack a group of Mosby's Rangers at Brimstone Hill on 9 April 1865. This is known as the last skirmish of the Civil War in Virginia.

The cemetery is located about 150 feet east of the house near the vegetable garden. The owner has laid a bed of gravel and placed the eight marble gravestones flat on the ground in three rows. The grounds of the house are very well maintained; the area around the cemetery is not mowed regularly, but was freshly cut when the cemetery was surveyed in September 1994.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books