Marders Family Cemetery

Here follows an excerpt from the Find A Grave website:

Located in Lorton. This small cemetery was located on part of the Lower Potomac Sewage Treatment Plant where several mature trees shaded the area. A 1922 survey by Carrie White Avery recorded the presence of only one gravestone. The inscription as recorded was taken from a 1968 photograph of the stone. There appeared to be 10+ burials, as well as the marble base of the aforementioned gravestone, but the stone was not found by the 1990 survey. The cemetery was overgrown, but not hard to locate. The Boggess/Ward House, "La Grange," which stood nearby burned Feb. 2. 1972.

Date of Survey: 2/16/1990
REBECCA KIRBY MARDERS
Born: 1825c
Died: NOV 27, 1882
Wife of: JAMES S. MARDERS

A 1922 survey by Carrie White Avery recorded the presence of the gravestone. The following inscription in taken from a 1968 photograph of the stone "Until the day breaks and the shaddows flee away To our mother ...." The stone was not found by the 1990 survey.


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Here follows an excerpt from the Fairfax Genealogical Society website:

MARDERS FAMILY CEMETERY
On the grounds of the Lower Potomac Sewage Treatment Plant
Lorton, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 5 of the Gravestone Books

Located on the east side of Old Colchester Road, this small family cemetery is now on the grounds of the Lower Potomac Sewage Treatment Plant. The cemetery was called Kirby-Marders Cemetery by Carrie White Avery when she surveyed the site in 1922. She described the location as “[o]n a side of the road going to Gunston Hall . . . below a fork of the road that goes to Pohick Church, or Lewis Chapel.”

According to “Some Fairfax County Characters: Robert Boggess and His Friends,” by Edith M. Sprouse, in the September 1974 issue of Echoes of History, this cemetery was near “La Grange,” a home once owned by Robert Boggess who ran a racetrack in the vicinity. Mrs. Sprouse described La Grange as located “on the east side of Old Colchester Road a short distance south of Pohick Church.” Boggess built the house in the 1740s, and obtained a license to operate an ordinary there in 1749. The house was torn down after the Civil War and William Ward, a Boggess descendant, built another in its place which burned down on 3 February 1972.

The cemetery was not far from the house, according to Mrs. Sprouse. A Ward family member reported that there were four to six graves in the cemetery. When Brian Conley, Infor-mation Specialist, Fairfax City Regional Library, visited the site in 1990, he estimated that there are about ten unmarked burials in the small cemetery, which he described as overgrown and surrounded by mature trees.

When Carrie White Avery surveyed the cemetery in 1922, she recorded the following inscription. A photograph taken of this grave marker in 1968 verified Mrs. Avery’s extraction. The gravestone was missing when Mr. Conley visited the site, although the marble base was still evident.

Until the day breaks
and the shadows flee away
To our Mother
Rebecca Kirby
wife of
James S. Marders
died Nov. 27th 1882
aged 57 years


No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books