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Hudson Bennett

Owned five slaves:
36 year old black female
17 year old black female
8 year old black male
5 year old black female
2 year old black female

Hudson Bennett (farmer)
Wife: Lucy (keeping house)
Son: Joseph (farmer)
Son: John (farmer)
Son: Richard (work on farm)

Lived in Dranesville.

William Cockerille (farmer)
Wife: Julia
Daughter: Mary E.
Son: Joseph (at school)
Son: Phillip (at school)
Son: Charles W.
Daughter: Nancy
Son: James F.
Daughter: Susan
Daughter: Margaret
Daugher: Sarah
Son: James L.

Lived in Fairfax

William W. Cockerille (farmer)
Wife: Julia
Daughter: Mary E. (seamstress)
Son: Joseph H. (farmer)
Son: Phillip
Son: Charles
Daughter: Nancy
Son: James T.
Son: Benjamin F.
Daughter: Susannah
Daughter: Susan
Daughter: Margaret

Lived in…

Samuel F. Ellmore (farmer/merchant)
Wife: Mary E. (keeping house)
Daughter: Nora F.
Son: William H.

Samuel was unemployed at some point during the census year

Lived in Loudoun/Broad Run

William Ellmore (farmer)
Mother: Mary E.
Sister: Nora

William owned his farm mortgage free

Lived in Dranesville

John Ellmore (at home)
Daughter: Ann (keeping house)
Son: Samuel F. (farmer)
Daugher: Mary E. (keeping house)
Daughter: Elizabeth (at home)
Son: George T (at home)

John's parents were foreign born (through ancestry.com they were traced back…

This picture was taken next to the parking lot and the road at the entrance to the cemetery. The Spencer and Ellmore familes are off in the distance. This picture shows the number of unmarked graves in the cemetery. One of these could be Mortimore…

This picture was taken at the back of the cemetery next to the African American section. The gravestone to the left is the Ellmore family and the gravestone to the right surrounded by a wooden fence is the Spencer family.

A picture taken from the back of the cemetery near the African American section (Virlinda Thomas's headstone is right in front of the meeting house and Benjamin Cockrille's headstone is to the right of the meeting house).