Elk Horn Run Cemetery

Here follows an excerpt from the Fairfax Genealogical Society website:

UNNAMED CEMETERY - ELK HORN RUN
Was near Elk Horn Run, located today between Elk Horn Run and Lake Hill Drive
Lorton, Virginia USA

Not Included in Volume 5 of the Gravestone Books

Update/Corrections/Additions from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books

ADDITION: UNNAMED CEMETERY – ELK HORN RUN
Society member Richard Camaur reports that when he moved to the Lorton area in the mid 1970s, neighbors told him about an old cemetery near Elk Horn Run, located today between Elk Horn Run and Lake Hill Drive, south of the intersection of Ox Road (Route 123) with Hampton Road (Route 647).

Mr. Davis, the proprietor of the “old Davis Store” at 8828 Ox Road* also acted as an undertaker. Mr. Camaur recalls neighborhood “old timer” Mr. Kidwell telling him that he assisted Mr. Davis bury black members of the community who were victims of the influenza epidemic during the winter of 1918-1919. Mr. Camaur has not visited the site himself; however, his children used to take a shortcut through the woods and reported mounds of rocks in the area which looked like graves.

* The Davis Store, a white frame building with a picket fence, sits close to the road. Until recently it served as a private dwelling, but it is scheduled for demolition to accommodate the widening of Route 123, according to Mr. Camaur. This Davis store should not be confused with the Davis Store at the corner of Clifton Road (Route 645) and Wolf Run Shoals Road (Route 610).