Woodyard-Fairfax Family Cemetery

Here follows an excerpt from the Fairfax Genealogical Society website:

WOODYARD FAMILY CEMETERY
Near 11313 Hunting Horse Drive
Fairfax Station, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 2 of the Gravestone Books

This little cemetery is located on the north side of Hunting Horse Drive, about 100 yards east of Wolf Run Shoals Road (Route 610), and about 20 feet west of the driveway of 11313 Hunting Horse Drive, in The Chase, Fairfax Station.

The 10 October 1930 issue of the Fairfax Herald mentions this cemetery and the efforts of the United Daughters of the Confederacy to honor those buried there:

Marking Graves
U.D.C. to Place Tablet at Two Near Woodyard's


Fairfax Chapter, U.D.C., is marking the graves of many of the former soldiers of the Confederate army, who are lying in unmarked ones in various sections of the county. Recently it was brought to the attention of the chapter that two old soldiers, named Truatt and Fairfax, were buried near Woodyard's, in Lee district, and their graves are to have suitable markers placed at them in the near future. Mrs. Allison, president of the chapter, has the names of two other men, and as soon as it is definitely ascertained they were Confederate soldiers, their graves will be marked. The work will go on until all the graves of Confederate soldiers in Fairfax county have markers at them so that future generations will know that a man who fought for what he knew to be right, lies there for all time.


The 20 January 1933 issue of the Fairfax Herald mentions the marking of the grave of Jeff Woodyard, “who is buried in the family cemetery, near Farr.”

Surveyors in 1973 and 1987 reported the cemetery to be completely overgrown. In 1989, the owner had recently cleared much of the underbrush. Two years later, Eagle Scout candidate Jason Van Camp organized other scouts to clean the underbrush from the cemetery, according to an account in the 29 August 1991 Burke-Braddock Connection.

...When the debris was cleared away, the scouts realized the rocks were actually small head stones and foot stones lined in perfect rows. One of the headstones marks the grave of George W. Fairfax, Jr. -- the son of Fairfax County's first major landowner -- who owned the farm house that sat on The Chase community property before it was torn down in the late 1960s. Fairfax was killed in combat during the Civil War as a soldier in the Virginia Light Infantry Calvary, according to documents saved from his home before it was demolished.


There are four tombstones and at least twelve burials unmarked or marked by fieldstones.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books