Fairfax County Occoquan Park Burial Site
Lorton, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
One is that this is the remains of a Selec[t]man Family Cemetery that was reportedly located on the Lorton Brick Factory property prior to its acquisition by the District of Columbia. About 1910 several parcels of property were conveyed to the Attorney General (of the United States) by eight different land-owners, including a Holt family, who had received the property from a party by the name of Selectman. In Selectman's conveyance to Holt it was stipulated that one acre, including a family burial lot was reserved and not included in the transfer unless satisfactory arrangements were made for the removal of the bodies of two men and one woman buried therein. Either this restriction was overlooked when Holt conveyed the land to the Attorney General - or perhaps the bodies referred to had then been removed.
Elizabeth S. Hartwell in her booklet on Occoquan Regional Park suggested this could be the grave of an unnamed Indian chief. She writes: "Next to the concession complex is a small graveyard, just large enough for a single grave, surrounded by a brick wall with a wrought-iron gate. The wall was built by prison inmates. There is no tombstone or other marker. The NVRPA restored the damaged wall and built a concrete walk around the gravesite. This may be the grave of an Indian warrior- hero referred to by Englishman John Davis in his book describing his four and a half years in the United States from 1798 to 1802."
Fairfax County Cemetery Survey Number: FX214.
One is that this is the remains of a Selec[t]man Family Cemetery that was reportedly located on the Lorton Brick Factory property prior to its acquisition by the District of Columbia. About 1910 several parcels of property were conveyed to the Attorney General (of the United States) by eight different land-owners, including a Holt family, who had received the property from a party by the name of Selectman. In Selectman's conveyance to Holt it was stipulated that one acre, including a family burial lot was reserved and not included in the transfer unless satisfactory arrangements were made for the removal of the bodies of two men and one woman buried therein. Either this restriction was overlooked when Holt conveyed the land to the Attorney General - or perhaps the bodies referred to had then been removed.
Elizabeth S. Hartwell in her booklet on Occoquan Regional Park suggested this could be the grave of an unnamed Indian chief. She writes: "Next to the concession complex is a small graveyard, just large enough for a single grave, surrounded by a brick wall with a wrought-iron gate. The wall was built by prison inmates. There is no tombstone or other marker. The NVRPA restored the damaged wall and built a concrete walk around the gravesite. This may be the grave of an Indian warrior- hero referred to by Englishman John Davis in his book describing his four and a half years in the United States from 1798 to 1802."
Fairfax County Cemetery Survey Number: FX214.
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- Added: 23 Jul 2006
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2183094
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