Sons & Daughters Of Liberty Cemetery

Sons & Daughters Of Liberty Cemetery

300 Ft. S. of Parking Lot-pine Ridge Park
Annandale, Va.

FX187

This 1/4 acre parcel was deeded to Ebenezer Lodge No. 14, Sons and Daughters of Liberty for use as a graveyard in 1907 (Db X6:539). The cemetery and surrounding property was condemned by the Fairfax County School Board in 1965 for a school that was never built. The Fairfax County Park Authority was eventually given use of the land and constructed ball fields on part of the parcel in 1983. The cemetery was not maintained and suffered severely from neglect and vandalism. In 1990 the School Board cleared, fenced, and surveyed the site for burials, locating forty-five graves. Only one original gravestone survives, all others on the site were placed by the School Board in 1990.

BETTE E. COLLINS
Death: JAN 9, 1920

Comment: Inscription "BETTE E. Wife of WH. H. COLLINS Died Jan. 9, 1920 Aged 39 ì Yrs. Rest Sweet Rest......COLLINS."