Millan Family Cemetery

Here follows an excerpt from Donald Hakenson's "This Forgotten Land" tour guide:

The Millan Family Cemetery is situated on common ground in the Tartan Village townhouse development. Most of the stones are either broken or displaced. A chain link fence now surrounds the site. The Millan farm is marked as "old cemetery" on the McDowell map that was published in 1862. The cemetery is clean and well maintained.

James Millan and his wife Susanna are buried on their farm (Dairy Lodge), high on the hillside above the tavern site, which was located on Telegraph Road at Dogue Creek, just north of the Tartan Village subdivision. In 1822 the tavern was advertised as being on the Stage Road five miles from Alexandria formerly occupied by Hendley Nelson. The tavern was later used as a polling place for that precinct.


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Here follows an excerpt from the Fairfax Genealogical Society Cemetery Project:

The cemetery is situated on common ground in the Tartan Village townhouse development. A 1979 archaeological survey, prior to construction, found the site densely overgrown and most of the stones wither broken or displaced. A chain link fence now surrounds the site, which is maintained by the homeowners association, however most of the gravestones recorded in 1979 have disappeared. The stones were (1) Sarah Ann Millan (d. 1831); (2) Elizabeth Millan (d. 1831); (3) James Millian (d. 1844); and (4) Susanna Millan (d. 1831)


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All are "daughter" or "son" .. "of James and Susanna Millan". They apparently named children after themselves. The year of the deaths all seem to be 1831, and the days could(!) all be 16th. It is possible that the dates are all the same. If they all died on the same day, that would suggest a violent death; different days in the same year and month, perhaps a contagious disease.

Millan, Elizabeth L. 1803 - Sep(?) ?0 1831 (second digit of the day seems(!) to be "0") (died age 28)
Millan, J.L. 1819? - Sep 16 1831(?) (Died age 12)
Millan, Susanna 181?-1831 (?) (Died age 2?, in her twenties)
2 others, broken and worn head stones