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Colchester Cemetery


OLD COLCHESTER RD. NEAR THE OCCOQUAN RIVER, LORTON


This cemetery was associated with the church in the Town of Colchester and is one of the oldest European burial grounds in Fairfax County. The site contains numerouse depressions (several marked by fieldstones) and one cut gravemaers. A W.P.A. Historical Inventory report by Susan R. Morton dated 4/11/38, recorded a single headstone which read: "Here lyes the body of Katherine Popkins, Departed this life, December 1766, Age 68 years." This stone is currently located at Pohick Church.The site is wooded.
Date of Survey: 4/30/1999




KATHERINE POPKINS
Born: 1698c
Died: 1766
Inscription: Here lyes the body of Katherine Popkins, Departed this life, December 1766. Age 68 years.



ELIZABETH 
Born:
Died: SEP 1760





Fairfax County Public Library Cemetery Survey Number: FX212
Virginia State Archaeological Number: 44FX0704

From Cemeteries of Fairfax County, Virginia by Brian A. Conley


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