Struder Family Cemetery

The Struder Family Cemetery is a small family plot next to Telegraph Road in the Alexandria section of Fairfax County, Virginia. In addition to the three known graves found in several records (Victor, Adelia, and Martha), there is an apparent base that suggests a possible fourth grave; I have called this Unknown Struder. There is also a badly worn footstone with no inscription visible; and a pair of corner markers are out of position. The Struder Family Cemetery is near the corner of Sharon Chapel Road and Telegraph Road. Other persons with the Struder surname are buried in the nearby cemetery at All Saints Sharon Chapel, an Episcopal parish. Another Struder is buried a few miles away at Mount Comfort Cemetery.

The cemetery is on the west side of the road at a bottom of a hill. A 10'x20' brick border has been installed around the three headstones and one marble corner marker and daffodils and annuals planted inside the border. A small family cemetery that is neglected. Somebody keeps up with the mowing but all of the 3 headstones are broken in half and there is a lot of weeds covering this little graveyard.

Here is a list of the three headstones still visible in the graveyard:
Struder, Adelia, b. Jun 22, 1842, d. Oct 11, 1911, w/o Victor
Struder, Martha Rosanna, b. Aug 8, 1860, d. Apr 2, 1899, d/o Victor and Adelia
Struder, Victor, b. Sep 8, 18??, d. Feb 28, 1906, (the headstone is broken in two with 50% of the stone is missing.)


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Here follows an excerpt from Donald Hakenson's "This Forgotten Land" tour guide:
The Struder family came to Virginia from Switzerland in 1824.


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Here follows an excerpt from the Fairfax Genealogical Society website:

PULLMAN/STRUDER FAMILY CEMETERY
West side of Telegraph Road (Route 611), about 100 feet north of Sharon Chapel Road
South Alexandria, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 5 of the Gravestone Books

The Pullman/Struder Family Cemetery stands on the west side of Telegraph Road (Route 611), about 100 feet north of Sharon Chapel Road. The triangular-shaped plot is near the road, to the north (right) of the driveway which leads up to the large home at 5918 Telegraph Road.

A white board fence and a chain link fence surround the house and grounds. The cemetery itself is bordered by a brick edging. One marble cemetery fence post still stands in the northeast corner of the plot. The cemetery was surveyed in 1982, 1991, 1994 and 1998. While the 1991 and 1994 surveyors found the site well maintained, the 1998 surveyors reported that the cemetery was overgrown. Some periwinkle could be seen among the weeds.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books