PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Buckland Methodist Church Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Buckland Methodist Church:
                  1938 Apr. 5
                  Research made by Susan Rogers Morton

Cemetery Location:  Buckland Virginia, 3.5 miles from Gainesville, Virginia 
                    south of Lee Highway, Route #211.
                    Prince William Co., Virginia


DATE:

1856.

OWNERS:

Hugh Hite, before 1856
John Trone, 1856
Trustees St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1907
Trustees of the Pentecostal Church, present owners. (1938)

DESCRIPTION:

This church stands on a hill, on the left hand side of the highway going towards 
Warrenton.  It is a small white painted Church, with a belfry, and still bears 
the name :Harrison Memorial Church”.  There is nothing to indicate the age on 
the interior.  To the west there is a graveyard of considerable size, but many 
of the old stones either have no inscriptions, or they are so worn as to be 
illegible.

The inscriptions which are of any age follow:

In Memory of
Rev. John Steadman Trone
born in Prince William County, Virginia, February 16, 1802
died October 5, 1885
I would not live always, having a desire to depart and be with Christ.


In Memory of
Mrs. Delilah Trone
wife of Rev. John S. Trone
December 22, 1876, in her 81st year
A faithful partner & mother kind,
She lived benevolent, and died resigned.


Julia Agnes Trone
wife of Eugene Compton
November 30, 1837
August 6, 1914
A faithful daughter, a true wife, a Christian!


Died in Buckland, January 14, 1858
Lucy M.
Daughter of J.W. and A.M. McIntosh
age 8 years, 11 mo.
Sweet flower transplanted to the garden of our Lord.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

As the following extract shows, this land was purchased as a Church site: “John 
S. Trone bought of Hugh H. Hite and Ann R. his wife, for one dollar, one acre of 
land for a house of worship, with the understanding that it can be used by other 
evangelical Societies when not in use of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.”

This belonged to the Sudley Circuit which was composed of Sudley, Centreville, 
and Buckland, and continued to be used by the Methodists until 1907.  Rev. John 
S. Trone was its first pastor, and continued there until his death.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  Miss Josie Delaplane, Buckland, Virginia
             Mr. Charles Gillis, Haymarket, Virginia

Prince William County Court Records:
Deed Book 24, folio 63
Deed Book 56, folio 194

Tombstone Inscriptions

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