A Guide to the Loudoun County, VA Cemetery Collection, 1990-2004 Loudoun County, VA Cemetery Collection M 017

A Guide to the Loudoun County, VA Cemetery Collection, 1990-2004

A Collection in the
Thomas Balch Library
Collection Number M 017


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Processed by: Emily Hershman

Repository
Thomas Balch Library
Collection number
M 017
Title
Loudoun County, VA Cemetery Collection 1990-2004
Extent
1.33 cu. ft.
Collector
Committee on Old Cemeteries, Preservation Society of Loudoun County
Language
English
Abstract
In 1995 Thomas Balch Library sponsored a project to map, identify, photograph, and transcribe gravestone inscriptions in Loudoun cemeteries. A committee was created that consisted of Jeff Ball, Ned Douglass, Mary Fishback, Marty Hiatt, David Via, and Wynne Saffer as chairman for that purpose. The following year (1996), the committee published a list of known cemeteries in Loudoun County.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection open for research

Use Restrictions

No physical characteristics affect use of this material.

Preferred Citation

Loudoun County, VA Cemetery Collection (M 017), Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, VA.

Acquisition Information

Aurelia Jewell; Committee on Old Cemeteries; Thomas Balch Library Cemetery Committee

Alternative Form Available

Cemeteries of Loudoun County, Virginia: Copied by Mrs. Walter Towner Jewell (V REF 929.3 JEW); Loudoun County, Virginia Cemeteries: A Preliminary Index (V REF 929.50975528)

Accruals

2005.0112, 2005.0113

Processing Information

Processed by Emily Hershman, 8 August 2007.

This collection is open; there may be additional entries.

Historical Information

The Loudoun County Cemetery Collection project was initiated by Aurelia McCormick Jewell, who from approximately 1945 to 1950 made detailed listings of the cemeteries throughout the county. Rather than being listed alphabetically, Mrs. Jewell's data was sorted according to the location of each grave in individual cemeteries.

After Joint Resolution 177 by the 1989 Virginia General Assembly, an ordinance recognizing the significance and vulnerability of small Virginia cemeteries to development, the Preservation Society of Loudoun County resumed the cemetery project. A "Committee on Old Cemeteries," consisting of Alvin Titus, Wynne Saffer, David Via, Louis Jett, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Miner, and Alice Calhoun, was created to examine the small cemeteries throughout the county and determine their condition and the necessity for state action. The data compiled by this committee may often contain numerical measurements of graves as well as the number and condition of graves in a cemetery, but do not all contain names and birth and death dates.

In 1995 Thomas Balch Library sponsored a project to map, identify, photograph, and transcribe gravestone inscriptions in Loudoun cemeteries. A committee was created that consisted of Jeff Ball, Ned Douglass, Mary Fishback, Marty Hiatt, David Via, and Wynne Saffer as chairman for that purpose. The following year (1996), the committee published a list of known cemeteries in Loudoun County. The Committee has not been disbanded but is no longer active.

Scope and Content

The Loudoun County Cemetery Collection is comprised of four boxes and over one hundred folders. Cemeteries throughout the county are alphabetically listed, and each folder is headed according to the name of the cemetery and its location in the collection. Information in the folders ranges from single page lists to extensive indexes.

Folders in the cemetery collection include known information about cemeteries in places such as Hamilton, Middleburg, Purcellville, Leesburg, and other locations throughout the county. Some contain pictures of individual gravesites, names, birth and death dates on gravestones, and locations of the cemeteries. The folders are comprised of the combined information from Aurelia Jewell's and the "Committee on Old Cemeteries" data. The six notebooks from Thomas Balch Library Cemetery Committee Records of Loudoun County, VA (V REF 929.50975528) are also included in this collection. The notebooks consist of state cemetery questionnaires, photographs of individual graves, maps of each cemetery, and indexes of all gravestone inscriptions. A separate index from this project can also be used for further research.

The Cemetery Collection records are the only items in this collection.

Related Material

Preservation Society of Loudoun County, Cemetery Records (M 006/OMB 001)

Adjunct Descriptive Data

Bibliography

Wynne Saffer, interview with Emily Rebecca Hershman, 8 August 2007

Loudoun County, VA Cemetery Collection (M 017), Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, VA


Other Finding Aid

Loudoun County Cemetery Database, http://www.leesburgva.org/services/library/cemetery/default.aspx, uncatalogued Loudoun Cemetery Directory and Location Map Guide (2002 edition) located in open stacks.


Other Finding Aid

Loudoun County Cemetery Database, http://www.leesburgva.org/services/library/cemetery/default.aspx, uncatalogued Loudoun Cemetery Directory and Location Map Guide (2002 edition) located in open stacks.


Bibliography

Wynne Saffer, interview with Emily Rebecca Hershman, 8 August 2007

Loudoun County, VA Cemetery Collection (M 017), Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, VA


Contents List

Box 1
  • Folder 1: Adams, n.d.
  • Folder 2: African American-Lovettsville, n.d.
  • Folder 3: Ashburn Presbyterian, n.d.
  • Folder 4: Baley (Baily-Bailey) Cemetery, n.d.
  • Folder 5: Ball Cemetery, n.d.
  • Folder 6: Beaver/Spence-Arcola, n.d.
  • Folder 7: Belmont, n.d.
  • Folder 8: Belmont Chapel, n.d.
  • Folder 9: Bowman Pet Cemetery, n.d.
  • Folder 10: Broad Run/Hillside, n.d.
  • Folder 11: Bethel-Stumptown, n.d.
  • Folder 12: Carr Mausoleum, n.d.
  • Folder 13: Carter Tomb-Oatlands, n.d.
  • Folder 14: Carter-St. Louis, n.d.
  • Folder 15: Carter Crednal, n.d.
  • Folder 16: Catoctin Free-Paeonian Springs, n.d.
  • Folder 17: Chestnut Grove Cemetery-Herndon, n.d.
  • Folder 18: Chinn-Bittersweet, n.d.
  • Folder 19: Cleveland, n.d.
  • Folder 20: Cochran Cemetery, n.d.
  • Folder 21: Collier-Langollen, n.d.
  • Folder 22: Confederate Graves (Loudoun), n.d.
  • Folder 23: Cooksville, n.d.
  • Folder 24: Corum Cemetery, n.d.
  • Folder 25: Craven, n.d.
  • Folder 26: Davis at Morven Park, n.d.
  • Folder 27: Denham, n.d.
  • Folder 28: Dishman, n.d.
  • Folder 29: Dulin/Keene, n.d.
  • Folder 30: Ebenezer-Bloomfield, n.d.
  • Folder 31: Ebenezer New-Round Hill, n.d.
  • Folder 32: Ebenezer Old-Neersville, n.d.
  • Folder 33: Elgin (Fauquier), n.d.
  • Folder 34: Elgin (Sycolin), n.d.
  • Folder 35: Ellzey (Mt. Middleton), n.d.
  • Folder 36: Fadely, n.d.
  • Folder 37: Fairfax Friends Meeting, n.d.
  • Folder 38: Faith Chapel, n.d.
  • Folder 39: First Baptist-Watson, n.d.
  • Folder 40: Fouche, n.d.
  • Folder 41: Fox (empty), n.d.
  • Folder 42: Fox-Waterford, n.d.
  • Folder 43: Freeman, n.d.
  • Folder 44: Furnace Mountain Presbyterian, n.d.
  • Folder 45: German Reform/St. James United Church of Christ, n.d.
  • Folder 46: Gleedsville, n.d.
  • Folder 47: Glenloche, n.d.
  • Folder 48: Goose Creek Burial Grounds-Lincoln, n.d.
  • Folder 49: Grayson, n.d.
  • Folder 50: Grove Methodist Meeting, n.d.
  • Folder 51: Grubb-Hillsboro, n.d.
  • Folder 52: Gulick, n.d.
  • Folder 53: Gum Springs-Arcola, n.d.
  • Folder 54: Harmony-Hamilton, n.d.
  • Folder 55: Heater Graveyard, n.d.
  • Folder 56: Henkle, n.d.
  • Folder 57: Hillsboro, n.d.
  • Folder 58: Hixson, n.d.
  • Folder 59: Ish, n.d.
  • Folder 60: Jackson, n.d.
  • Folder 61: Ketoctin-Round Hill, n.d.
Box 2
  • Folder 1: Lakeview-Hamilton, n.d.
  • Folder 2: Lane, n.d.
  • Folder 3: Lee, n.d.
  • Folder 4: Leigh-Mt. Gilead, n.d.
  • Folder 5: Loudoun Heights, n.d.
  • Folder 6: Lucas-Hillsboro, n.d.
  • Folder 7: Lunette, n.d.
  • Folder 8: Lynn, n.d.
  • Folder 9: Lyon-Brambleton, n.d.
  • Folder 10: Lyon-Route 643, n.d.
  • Folder 11: Maffett, n.d.
  • Folder 12: Mansfield, n.d.
  • Folder 13: Matthew/James, n.d.
  • Folder 14: McIlhany/Ithaca-Hillsboro, n.d.
  • Folder 15: McKim, n.d.
  • Folder 16: Middleburg Memorial Gardens, n.d.
  • Folder 17: Moore, n.d.
  • Folder 18: Moran, n.d.
  • Folder 19: Mount, n.d.
  • Folder 20: Mount Hope, n.d.
  • Folder 21: Mount Olivet, n.d.
  • Folder 22: Mt. Pleasant-Taylorstown, n.d.
  • Folder 23: Mt. Pleasant Baptist-Aldie, n.d.
  • Folder 24: Mt. Sinai/Britain, n.d.
  • Folder 25: Mt. Zion-Aldie, n.d.
  • Folder 26: Mt. Zion Community-Leesburg, n.d.
  • Folder 27: Mountain Chapel, n.d.
  • Folder 28: New Jerusalem-Lovettsville, n.d.
  • Folder 29: New Valley Church-Lucketts, n.d.
  • Folder 30: Nixon, n.d.
  • Folder 31: North Fork Regular Baptist, n.d.
  • Folder 32: Oak Grove Baptist-Sterling, n.d.
  • Folder 33: Old Abel, n.d.
  • Folder 34: Old Baptist-Middleburg, n.d.
  • Folder 35: Old Bethesda Methodist-Unison, n.d.
  • Folder 36: Old Darnes, n.d.
  • Folder 37: Old Episcopal-Leesburg, n.d.
  • Folder 38: Old Methodist-Leesburg, n.d.
  • Folder 39: Old Presbyterian-Leesburg, n.d.
  • Folder 40: Old Presbyterian-Lovettsville, n.d.
  • Folder 41: Old Welbourne, n.d.
  • Folder 42: Orrison-Rt. 50, n.d.
  • Folder 43: Oxley, n.d.
  • Folder 44: Palmer, n.d.
  • Folder 45: Pleasant Valley-Hamilton, n.d.
Box 3
  • Folder 1: Potts, n.d.
  • Folder 2: Powell-Empty, n.d.
  • Folder 3: Powellton-Airmont, n.d.
  • Folder 4: Private Cemetery-Rt. 606-636, n.d.
  • Folder 5: Private-Rt.606/775, n.d.
  • Folder 6: Prosperity-Rt. 620-621, n.d.
  • Folder 7: Rehobeth, n.d.
  • Folder 8: Rock Hill-Airmont, n.d.
  • Folder 9: Rusk, n.d.
  • Folder 10: Rust/Moss, n.d.
  • Folder 11: Saffer, n.d.
  • Folder 12: Salem, n.d.
  • Folder 13: Saunders-Camp High Road, n.d.
  • Folder 14: Saudners-Prosperwell Farm/Lucketts, n.d.
  • Folder 15: Second Shiloh Baptist, n.d.
  • Folder 16: Sharon-Middleburg, n.d.
  • Folder 17: Shreve, n.d.
  • Folder 18: Skinner, n.d.
  • Folder 19: Skinner/Oden, n.d.
  • Folder 20: Smith, n.d.
  • Folder 21: Solon 1, n.d.
  • Folder 22: Solon 2, n.d.
Box 4
  • Folder 1: Solon 3, n.d.
  • Folder 2: South Fork Meeting, n.d.
  • Folder 3: St. Paul's-Neersville, n.d.
  • Folder 4: Sterling Cemetery (Old), n.d.
  • Folder 5: Sterling Cemetery, n.d.
  • Folder 6: Throckmorton, n.d.
  • Folder 7: Umbaugh Cemtery at site of Old Ironside Baptist, n.d.
  • Folder 8: Union-Leesburg, n.d.
  • Folder 9: Union Cemetery-Lovettsville, n.d.
  • Folder 10: Upperville Methodist, n.d.
  • Folder 11: Waterford Union, n.d.
  • Folder 12: Williams/Brown, n.d.
  • Folder 13: Willis, n.d.
  • Folder 14: Willisville, n.d.
  • Folder 15: Wilson, n.d.
  • Folder 16: Wilson-Empty, n.d.
  • Folder 17: Wolf/Gaines, n.d.