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Thomas Owsley Burial Site

Fort Belvoir, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA – *No GPS coordinates

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Thomas Owsley was buried on his plantation in what was at the time Stafford County, Virginia, but is now Fort Belvoir, Fairfax County, Virginia. The site of Thomas Owlsey's burial is known from historical records. An 1883 chancery suit, Otterback vs. Hughes, includes a deposition made by Jonathan Roberts, the former county surveyor, who deposed, "His house was on the part of the Cedar Grove Estate that I bought of William McCarty in the year 1848, where the said Thomas Owsley lived and died in the year A.D. 1700 and was buried near his dwelling as was marked on the plat of the survey of the Cedar Grove Estate before mentioned in the valley about one third of a mile east of the present mansion where a large cedar tree had grown over his grave and tomb stone on which were cut his name, age, where he came from in England and when he died 1700 and said tombstone was there when I moved away in the year of A.D. 1869."

The area that encompassed Thomas Owsley's plantation underwent extensive archaeological excavation in the 1990s. For more information, refer to Report on the History of the Barnes-Owsley Site, prepared by Anne Schwermer for the Directorate of Public Works, U.S. Army Garrison, Fort Belvoir, 1995.
Thomas Owsley was buried on his plantation in what was at the time Stafford County, Virginia, but is now Fort Belvoir, Fairfax County, Virginia. The site of Thomas Owlsey's burial is known from historical records. An 1883 chancery suit, Otterback vs. Hughes, includes a deposition made by Jonathan Roberts, the former county surveyor, who deposed, "His house was on the part of the Cedar Grove Estate that I bought of William McCarty in the year 1848, where the said Thomas Owsley lived and died in the year A.D. 1700 and was buried near his dwelling as was marked on the plat of the survey of the Cedar Grove Estate before mentioned in the valley about one third of a mile east of the present mansion where a large cedar tree had grown over his grave and tomb stone on which were cut his name, age, where he came from in England and when he died 1700 and said tombstone was there when I moved away in the year of A.D. 1869."

The area that encompassed Thomas Owsley's plantation underwent extensive archaeological excavation in the 1990s. For more information, refer to Report on the History of the Barnes-Owsley Site, prepared by Anne Schwermer for the Directorate of Public Works, U.S. Army Garrison, Fort Belvoir, 1995.

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  • Added: 27 May 2020
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2707098