Wilson Family Cemetery

Here follows an excerpt from the Fairfax Genealogical Society website:

WILSON FAMILY CEMETERY
Behind the residence at 9462 Fourth Place
Lorton, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 5 of the Gravestone Books

This small family cemetery lies behind the residence at 9462 Fourth Place, southwest of Giles Mill Branch. A copy of a photograph taken of this cemetery in 1989 is on file in the cemetery files of the Virginia Room, Fairfax City Regional Library. The picture shows an inscribed marker leaning against a tree with a few other small markers in view.

In 1990, Brian Conley, Information Specialist in the Virginia Room, visited the site and noted about four marble grave markers leaning against a large tree in the southwest corner of the property. Mr. Conley reported that “[a] close examination of the site was not possible, therefore an estimate of the number of burials is unavailable.”

Surveyors interviewed the resident of the Fourth Place address in the spring of 1998. He stated that this cemetery is evident only on his plat map, and measures about ten by fifteen feet, in a trapezoidal shape. He said that although he has resided at the site for the past thirteen years, he does not know what became of the inscribed gravestone photographed at the site in 1989. He did tell the surveyors, however, that some marble markers from the cemetery have been moved and used as “stepping stones.”

The following inscription was taken from the photograph in the library file:

In Memory of
Fanny B. B. Wilson.
Died Oct. 3, 1866
in her 78th year.


According to Fairfax County historian Edith Sprouse as noted in the cemetery file in the Virginia Room of the Fairfax City Regional Library, Fanny Wilson’s maiden name was Coffer.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books


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Here follows an excerpt from the Find A Grave website:

According to the official Fairfax County cemetery survey completed in 1994, "There are fragments of at least four marble gravestones (two are probably footstones) leaning against a large tree near the southwest corner of this property. The inscription (of the gravestone of Fanny B. B. Wilson) was derived from photographs of the stones taken in 1989. A close examination of the site was not possible; therefore, an estimate of the number of burials is unavailable." During my July 2006 survey I was privileged to meet the current owner of the property, who has lived there for over 25 years. She said the old Wilson house, next to her property had been torn down recently; the site now contains several new houses. She said the family cemetery, located on the back corner of her property, was of a triangle shape – about 30 feet on each side. She has marked one gravesite with a metal stake encircled with stones; she had Fanny Wilson's gravestone and one other (large but uninscribed) gravestone in her barn, and allowed me to photograph them. She stated that Fanny Wilson was the granddaughter of George Mason of Gunston Hall.