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Millan-Potter Family Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 38.7466394, -77.1455313
Closest Address: 6000 Leaf Road, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060

Millan-Potter Family Cemetery

From the intersection of the Fort Belvoir-Telegragh Road Entrance Gate and Telegraph Road (Highway 611) go northeast on Telegraph Road for .4 miles. The cemetery is about 20 yards from the road. The cemetery is also on the northern outside border of Fort Belvoir, on the south side of the road in the woods.

A small family cemetery that was used from 1813 to 1877. There is a new fence around the Cemetery and has a sign that says Private Cemetery. The cemetery is on United States Government Property.


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Here follows an excerpt from the Fairfax Genealogical Society website:

MILLAN/POTTER FAMILY CEMETERY
Across from 7908 Telegraph Road
Fort Belvoir, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 5 of the Gravestone Books

The Millan/Potter Family Cemetery is located in the woods on the south side of Telegraph Road (Route 611) across from 7908 Telegraph Road, one-half mile east of the intersection of Telegraph with Beulah Street (Route 613). This small burial ground is in William Woods on the northern edge of Fort Belvoir. It lies just outside the base fence and may be accessed from a one-way, gated military road emerging from the Army base.

The cemetery is surrounded by a 25-by-50-foot wire fence with a gate. Several old trees stand in the cemetery which was overgrown and neglected in the early 1970s, but which is now periodically maintained. Information on file in the Virginia Room, Fairfax City Regional Library, states that Eagle Scout Eric Shaw cleared the area in 1971, and the cemetery was restored and rededicated by the Water Resources Support Center of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1983. According to the program notes for the 3 June 1983 Restoration Ceremony, the cemetery stands on land that was owned by the Potter family. It is adjacent to the Triplett Farm to the east, and bordered on the north by Hayfield, formerly the Lund Washington Farm. The site is posted “Private Cemetery - Off Limits.”

Some of the gravestones have fallen over, a few are broken and the fence has partially fallen. The cemetery was surveyed in the early 1970s, 1988, 1994 and 1997. When Eagle Scout Eric Shaw cleaned up the cemetery in 1971, he noted a gravestone and footstone for Mary Arrington who died in 1872, aged 75, but this gravestone was not seen during other surveys.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books


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Here follows a list of the fourteen known burials within the cemetery:

Mary Arrington
unknown – 1872

Washburn Arrington
28 Oct 1792 – 19 Mar 1871

John Millan
1807 – 6 Nov 1840
Born at Oakley, Fairfax County,

Statia Potter Millan
1779 – 19 Jun 1839
widow of William

Capt William Millan
29 Jul 1775 – 28 Jul 1813

George Potter
unknown – 4 Jan 1865

Henry Potter
unknown – 15 Oct 1843

James Potter
1780 – 6 Apr 1853

James S Potter
10 Jan 1812 – 18 Aug 1865

Jos. Augustin Potter
unknown – 3 Jul 1870

Mildred P Arrington Potter
15 Oct 1834 – 22 Aug 1877

Rebecca Potter
unknown – 16 Sep 1846

Rebekah Potter
unknown – Mar

Susan Potter
1787 – 10 Sep 1857

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