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FREDERICKSBURG, VA - CEMETERIES - Masonic Cemetery
Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection
LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Masonic burying ground:
1937 June 10
Research made by Sue K. Gordon
Cemetery Location: West side of Charles Street, between George and William
Streets, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
City of Fredericksburg
(NOTE: The report does not note a marker inscription)
Alexander Rose was the father of this child, and the ancestor of the Roses of
Falmouth and Fredericksburg. He was a vestryman in Saint George’s Church in
1814. He was married twice. His first wife was a Mildred Washington and his
second was Sarah Fontaine. Dr. Lawrence Berry Rose, who married Eliza Wellford,
was a son of the latter union. One of the interesting old documents at the
Courthouse is a deed, made in 1814, transferring Lots #109-110, bounded by
Charles, Fauquier, and Prince Edward Streets, to Alexander F. Rose. The lots
(one-half acre each) at one time belonged to Fielding and Betty Lewis, and were
opposite to the property formerly occupied by Major Benjamin Day. When they
were transferred to Alexander Rose, they were a part of the estate of Honorable
John Dawson, deceased, the "poor man’s friend" and congressman from this
district, who according to the biographers of James Monroe, was connected with
that eminent man. Although this year must have been less pre-presidential
engagements for he now held either the office of Secretary of State or acting
Secretary of War he with Robert Patton, the son-in-law of General Hugh Mercer,
took time to administer the estate of his departed collegue, Honorable John
Dawson. The latter was an important man in national affairs.
Tradition, which in this case has reasonable grounds for fact, says that James
Monroe and John Dawson each lived in the old house with the enormous chimney,
corner Fauquier and Prince Edward Streets, which has been demolished.
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
1776 - 1823 (47 years)