Keys Cemetery

Narrative

Image showing the 1937 view of the farm with the cemetery location marked and Rt. 234 on the left.

In 1910 the Keys family sold this property. The graveyard was mentioned in that deed. It is linked below but a modern vernacular version of it is,

This deed, made February 3rd, 1910, between Evandon G.W. Keys and Hennah E. Keys, his wife, of Prince William County, Virginia, parties of the first part, and John Soltis and Mary Soltis, his wife, of North Braddock, PA, parties of the second part.
For $1,200, Evandon G.W. Keys and Hannah E. Keys sell John Soltis and Mary Soltis land on the north side of Quantico Run, in the County of Prince William. This land adjoining the lands of the Phillip Carter estate, the George Weedon estate (now A.M. Yates) the Nelson Mill tract and others and containing 165.5 aeres with a reservation of one acre, the present burial ground of the Keys family. This is the same land which was known as the Magruder Keys farm, and was sold/given to Evandon G.W. Keys by John A. Keys' heirs by deed dated the 8th day of Feb. 1887, and recorded in the PWC Clerk's Office in Liber 37 folio 229.

You can read the original deed on the second entry of Deed mentioning 1 acre for the cemetery

Survey Details

Classification:	Family
Status:	Maintained, not in use
Condition:	Good
Approx. Size:	30 x 30 feet
Approximate Number of Burials:	9
Earliest Burial Date:	1872
Latest Burial Date:	1906
Markers:	Tombstone, unmarked
Surnames Listed on Markers:	Stone #1 Our Father Henry A. Keys died Nov 12 1906 age 73 years (stone on ground and broken off at the base, this damage appears to have been done years ago) Stone #2 John Keys born Apr 5 1802, died Apr 4 1872 (small Tombstone in a concrete base) Stone #3 In Memory of Sarah E. wife of Henry A. Keys, died May 25 1877 (stone on ground broken 6 inches from the top, also 4 large cracks in the middle of the 12 x 27 inch stone.)
Comments:	Location comments no longer needed
Surveyed By:	Ron Turner and Nelson Keys - April 22, 1997
Latitude / Longitude:	38.666411, -77.43317

Site Visits

Visited by:	Date:	Comments:
Ron Turner	April 22, 1997	Location comments no longer needed
David Cuff	Aug. 2021	Cemetery was restored by David Cuff and Robert Moser in August 2021.

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