January 16, 2011

Pohick Church, Fairfax County, VA: II










Peter Wagener, reinterred at Pohick from the family burial ground at Stisted [adjacent to the Town of Colchester]:


Former Mason Neck resident Jeremiah Bronaugh[Branaugh]:

















Thomas Bushrod, slave of the Fitzhugh family, post-bellum guard of Washington's tomb. He owned land near Pohick Church. His descendants still live in the area:








Many [but, not all!] members of the Fitzhugh family were reinterred at Pohick from Ravensworth burial ground:
















Photos taken August, 2010.
Maddy McCoy
Fairfax County, Virginia
Slavery Inventory Database

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