Notable Burials
The cemetery holds the graves of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall, attorney John Wickham, Revolutionary War hero Peter Francisco, famed Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew, Virginia Governors William H. Cabell and John M. Patton (General George S. Patton's great-grandfather), Judge Dabney Carr, United States Senators Powhatan Ellis and Benjamin W. Leigh, and dozens of Confederate soldiers. Frances K. Allan, beloved foster-mother of writer Edgar Allan Poe, is buried here, as are perhaps the great love of Poe's life, Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, and Jane Stanard, inspiration for his poem "To Helen".
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