Woodlawn Baptist Church Cemetery

Here follows an excerpt from the Fairfax Genealogical Society website:

WOODLAWN BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY
9001 Richmond Highway (Route 1)
Fort Belvoir, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 5 of the Gravestone Books

Woodlawn Baptist Church, 9001 Richmond Highway (Route 1), is situated atop Gray’s Hill, across the highway from Woodlawn Plantation and west of Dogue Creek. The church and cemetery lie on the edge of Fort Belvoir. The cemetery covers the slopes flanking the driveway from the highway to the church building.

The original church structure was built in 1872, according to a 1969 Historic American Buildings Survey Inventory. Otis Mason gave land to the church in a deed which specifies that if the site is ever used for a purpose other than Baptist worship, the property will revert to the Mason heirs. A grand brick edifice replaced the 1872 church in recent years.

The church has some cemetery records, but their files are not extensive. There are many unmarked graves in the cemetery. The church office may be reached at (703) 780-3440.

The well-maintained cemetery was surveyed in 1922, 1997, and 1998. The gravestones were read beginning with those on the west side of the driveway. The first gravestone stands nearest the church building. Rows in the cemetery on this side of the driveway lie at different angles. Some rows are parallel to the driveway, others are parallel to the highway, and some are angled in between. Surveyors first read gravestones in rows parallel to the driveway, and then continued the survey with rows at different angles.

The following six grave markers are within a fenced plot.

John W. Jacobs
father 7 Mar 1865 25 Nov 1955
Rachel Rogers Jacobs
his wife; mother 1 Feb 1872 18 Sep 1937
Herman Jacobs 23 Dec 1905 24 Jul 1961
Irving Jacobs 4 Mar 1909 14 Jul 1966
E. E. J.
(small gravestone)
G. W. J.
(small gravestone)
A. J.
(small gravestone)

The survey continues with gravestones on the other side of the driveway, beginning at the top of the hillside.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books